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Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) or Energy Disaggregation (ED), seeks to save energy by decomposing corresponding appliances power reading from an aggregate power reading of the whole house. It is a single channel blind source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ziyue Jia , Linfeng Yang , Zhenrong Zhang , Hui Liu , Fannie Kong

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a key cost-effective technology for monitoring power consumption and contributing to several challenges encountered when transiting to an efficient, sustainable, and competitive energy efficiency…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Yassine Himeur , Abdullah Alsalemi , Faycal Bensaali , Abbes Amira

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) identifies the operating status and energy consumption of each electrical device in the circuit by analyzing the electrical signals at the bus, which is of great significance for smart power management.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Olimjon Toirov , Wei Yu

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is pivotal in today's energy landscape, offering vital solutions for energy conservation and efficient management. Its growing importance in enhancing energy savings and understanding consumer behavior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Liu , Yi Wang , Jin Ma

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a modern and still expanding technique, helping to understand fundamental energy consumption patterns and appliance characteristics. Appliance event detection is an elementary step in the NILM…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Matthias Kahl , Thomas Kriechbaumer , Daniel Jorde , Anwar Ul Haq , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

The evolution of Internet of Things technologies is driven by four key demands: ultra-low power consumption, high spectral efficiency, reduced implementation cost, and support for massive connectivity. To address these challenges, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Long Yuan , Wenkun Wen , Junlin Liu , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

Residential buildings with the ability to monitor and control their net-load (sum of load and generation) can provide valuable flexibility to power grid operators. We present a novel multiclass nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Govind Saraswat , Blake Lundstrom , Murti V Salapaka

Improving smart grid system management is crucial in the fight against climate change, and enabling consumers to play an active role in this effort is a significant challenge for electricity suppliers. In this regard, millions of smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Adrien Petralia , Paul Boniol , Philippe Charpentier , Themis Palpanas

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, a.k.a. Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, aims to separate the energy consumption of individual appliances from the readings of a mains power meter measuring the total energy consumption of, e.g. a whole house. Energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jie Jiang , Qiuqiang Kong , Mark Plumbley , Nigel Gilbert

While non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) improves spectral efficiency, it results in a complexity at the receivers due to successive interference cancellation (SIC). Prior studies on the energy efficiency of NOMA overlook the SIC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Syllas R. C. Magalhaes , Suzan Bayhan , Geert Heijenk

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

Electricity consumed by residential consumers counts for a significant part of global electricity consumption and utility companies can collect high-resolution load data thanks to the widely deployed advanced metering infrastructure. There…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hao Wang , Gonzague Henri , Chin-Woo Tan , Ram Rajagopal

The issue of estimating the detailed appliance level load consumption has received considerable attention. This paper first presents a Labelled hIgh-Frequency daTaset for Electricity Disaggregation (LIFTED), which can be used for research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Lei Yan , Jiayu Han , Runnan Xu , Zuyi Li

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), as a key load monitoring technology, can much reduce the deployment cost of traditional power sensors. Previous research has largely focused on developing cloud-exclusive NILM algorithms, which often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Junyu Xue , Yu Zhang , Xudong Wang , Yi Wang , Guoming Tang

Industrial Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is limited by the scarcity of high-quality datasets and the complex variability of industrial energy consumption patterns. To address data scarcity and privacy issues, we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Christian Internò , Andrea Castellani , Sebastian Schmitt , Fabio Stella , Barbara Hammer

In recent years, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) technology has attracted much attention in the related research field by virtue of its unique advantage of utilizing single meter data to achieve accurate decomposition of device-level…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Hangxu Liu , Yaojie Sun , Yu Wang

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) aims at separating a whole-home energy signal into its appliance components. Such method can be harnessed to provide various services to better manage and control energy consumption (optimal planning and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Saad Mohamad , Abdelhamid Bouchachia

In this paper, a novel neural network architecture is proposed to address the challenges in energy disaggregation algorithms. These challenges include the limited availability of data and the complexity of disaggregating a large number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Sahar Moghimian Hoosh , Ilia Kamyshev , Henni Ouerdane

Energy disaggregation is a promising solution to access detailed information on energy consumption in a household, by itemizing its total energy consumption. However, in real-world applications, overfitting remains a challenging problem for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Ilia Kamyshev , Sahar Moghimian Hoosh , Henni Ouerdane