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With the growing demand for energy and increased environmental awareness, Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) has become an essential tool in smart grid and energy management. By analyzing total power load data, NILM infers the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 DengYu Shi

We prove that the expected estimation error of non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms is lower bounded by the trace of the inverse of the cross-correlation matrix between the derivatives of the load profiles of the appliances. We use this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Farhad Farokhi

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) helps meet energy conservation goals by estimating individual appliance power usage from a single aggregate measurement. Deep neural networks have become increasingly popular in attempting to solve NILM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Alon Harell , Stephen Makonin , Ivan V. Bajić

Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an established technique for effective and cost-efficient electricity consumption management. The method is used to estimate appliance-level power consumption from aggregated power measurements. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Amanie Azzam , Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is the method of detecting an individual device's energy signal from an aggregated energy consumption signature [1]. As existing energy meters provide very little to no information regarding the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan , Md. Abu Bakr Siddique , Shadman Sakib

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is the process of obtaining appliance-level data from a single metering point, measuring total electricity consumption of a household or a business. Appliance-level data can be directly used for demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Anže Pirnat , Blaž Bertalanič , Gregor Cerar , Mihael Mohorčič , Carolina Fortuna

A promising approach toward efficient energy management is non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), that is to extract the consumption profiles of appliances within a residence by analyzing the aggregated consumption signal. Among efficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Elnaz Azizi , Mohammad T H Beheshti , Sadegh Bolouki

Smart grid, through networked smart meters employing the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) technique, can considerably discern the usage patterns of residential appliances. However, this technique also incurs privacy leakage. To address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jialing He , Jiacheng Wang , Ning Wang , Shangwei Guo , Liehuang Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Tao Xiang

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) aims to decompose aggregated electrical usage signal into appliance-specific power consumption and it amounts to a classical example of blind source separation tasks. Leveraging recent progress on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jialing He , Jiamou Liu , Zijian Zhang , Yang Chen , Yiwei Liu , Bakh Khoussainov , Liehuang Zhu

Energy disaggregation, known in the literature as Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), is the task of inferring the energy consumption of each appliance given the aggregate signal recorded by a single smart meter. In this paper, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Marco Balletti , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

In recent times, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has emerged as an important tool for distribution-level energy management systems owing to its potential for energy conservation and management. However, load monitoring in smart…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Himanshu Grover , Lokesh Panwar , Ashu Verma , B. K. Panigrahi , T. S. Bhatti

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) identifies the status and power consumption of various household appliances by disaggregating the total power usage signal of an entire house. Efficient and accurate load monitoring facilitates user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jing Xiong , Tianqi Hong , Dongbo Zhao , Yu Zhang

With the increased demand on economy and efficiency of measurement technology, Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) has received more and more attention as a cost-effective way to monitor electricity and provide feedback to users. Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Gan Zhou , Zhi Li , Meng Fu , Yanjun Feng , Xingyao Wang , Chengwei Huang

Energy disaggregation, also known as non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), challenges the problem of separating the whole-home electricity usage into appliance-specific individual consumptions, which is a typical application of data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Zhekai Du , Jingjing Li , Lei Zhu , Ke Lu , Heng Tao Shen

Energy disaggregation or Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) addresses the issue of extracting device-level energy consumption information by monitoring the aggregated signal at one single measurement point without installing meters on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Alireza Rahimpour , Hairong Qi , David Fugate , Teja Kuruganti

Energy disaggregation, also known as non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), is the task of separating aggregate energy data for a whole building into the energy data for individual appliances. Studies have shown that simply providing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Roy Dong , Lillian Ratliff , Henrik Ohlsson , S. Shankar Sastry

We propose a novel approach to enable Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) for Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring (NIALM), also known as Energy Disaggregation, through Bayesian Optimization. NIALM offers a cost-effective alternative to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Armin Moin , Ukrit Wattanavaekin , Alexandra Lungu , Stephan Rössler , Stephan Günnemann

In this demonstration, we present an open source toolkit for evaluating non-intrusive load monitoring research; a field which aims to disaggregate a household's total electricity consumption into individual appliances. The toolkit contains:…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Jack Kelly , Nipun Batra , Oliver Parson , Haimonti Dutta , William Knottenbelt , Alex Rogers , Amarjeet Singh , Mani Srivastava

The textile industry in Bangladesh is one of the most energy-intensive sectors, yet its monitoring practices remain largely outdated, resulting in inefficient power usage and high operational costs. To address this, we propose a real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Md Istiauk Hossain Rifat , Moin Khan , Zohara Kamal , Md Borhan Uddin Khan , Mohammad Zunaed

Non-intrusive load monitoring, or energy disaggregation, aims to separate household energy consumption data collected from a single point of measurement into appliance-level consumption data. In recent years, the field has rapidly expanded…