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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) or energy disaggregation, aims to disaggregate a household's electricity consumption into constituent appliances. More than three decades of work in NILM has resulted in the development of several novel…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Nipun Batra , Manoj Gulati , Puneet Jain , Kamin Whitehouse , Amarjeet Singh

Energy disaggregation estimates appliance-by-appliance electricity consumption from a single meter that measures the whole home's electricity demand. Compared with intrusive load monitoring, NILM (Non-intrusive load monitoring) is low cost,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jonah Edmonds , Zahraa S. Abdallah

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an energy efficiency technique to track electricity consumption of an individual appliance in a household by one aggregated single, such as building level meter readings. The goal of NILM is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jinsong Wang , Kenneth A. Loparo

We consider the problem of learning the energy disaggregation signals for residential load data. Such task is referred as non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), and in order to find individual devices' power consumption profiles based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ruohong Liu , Yize Chen

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a practical method to provide appliance-level electricity consumption information. Event detection, as an important part of event-based NILM methods, has a direct impact on the accuracy of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-25 Mengqi Lu , Zuyi Li

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…

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

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), commonly known as energy disaggregation, aims to estimate the power consumption of individual appliances by analyzing a home's total electricity usage. This method provides a cost-effective alternative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Nazanin Siavash , Armin Moin

Energy disaggregation in a non-intrusive way estimates appliance level electricity consumption from a single meter that measures the whole house electricity demand. Recently, with the ongoing increment of energy data, there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Peng Xiao , Samuel Cheng

With the roll-out of smart meters the importance of effective non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) techniques has risen rapidly. NILM estimates the power consumption of individual devices given their aggregate consumption. In this way, the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Christoph Klemenjak , Peter Goldsborough

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

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

In this paper, we investigate whether "big-data" is more valuable than "precise" data for the problem of energy disaggregation: the process of breaking down aggregate energy usage on a per-appliance basis. Existing techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Nipun Batra , Amarjeet Singh , Kamin Whitehouse

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), also known as energy disaggregation, is a blind source separation problem where a household's aggregate electricity consumption is broken down into electricity usages of individual appliances. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Changho Shin , Sunghwan Joo , Jaeryun Yim , Hyoseop Lee , Taesup Moon , Wonjong Rhee

The global effort toward renewable energy and the electrification of energy-intensive sectors have significantly increased the demand for electricity, making energy efficiency a critical focus. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) enables…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Ilia Kamyshev , Sahar Moghimian Hoosh , Dmitrii Kriukov , Elena Gryazina , Henni Ouerdane

To assess the performance of load disaggregation algorithms it is common practise to train a candidate algorithm on data from one or multiple households and subsequently apply cross-validation by evaluating the classification and energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Christoph Klemenjak , Anthony Faustine , Stephen Makonin , Wilfried Elmenreich

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

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) aims to predict the status or consumption of domestic appliances in a household only by knowing the aggregated power load. NILM can be formulated as regression problem or most often as a classification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Daniel Precioso , David Gómez-Ullate

Prudent and meaningful performance evaluation of algorithms is essential for the progression of any research field. In the field of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), performance evaluation can be conducted on real-world aggregate…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Christoph Klemenjak , Stephen Makonin , Wilfried Elmenreich