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Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) algorithms, commonly referred to as load disaggregation algorithms, are fundamental tools for effective energy management. Despite the success of deep models in load disaggregation, they face various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Hafsa Bousbiat , Yassine Himeur , Abbes Amira , Wathiq Mansoor

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) is an important application to monitor household appliance activities and provide related information to house owner or/and utility company via a single sensor installed at the electrical entry of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-25 Mengqi Lu , Jinfeng Gao , Zuyi Li

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

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) seeks to save energy by estimating individual appliance power usage from a single aggregate measurement. Deep neural networks have become increasingly popular in attempting to solve NILM problems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Simo Alami C. , Jérémie Decock , Rim Kaddah , Jesse Read

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

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a computational technique to estimate the power loads' appliance-by-appliance from the whole consumption measured by a single meter. In this paper, we propose a conditional density estimation model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Luis Felipe M. O. Henriques , Eduardo Morgan , Sergio Colcher , Ruy Luiz Milidiú

This paper presents a novel Sequence-to-Sequence (Seq2Seq) model based on a transformer-based attention mechanism and temporal pooling for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) of smart buildings. The paper aims to improve the accuracy of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Mohammad Irani Azad , Roozbeh Rajabi , Abouzar Estebsari

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

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) aims at energy consumption and appliance state information retrieval from aggregated consumption measurements, with the help of signal processing and machine learning algorithms. Representation learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Matthias Kahl , Daniel Jorde , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a technique to recover source appliances from only the recorded mains in a household. NILM is unidentifiable and thus a challenge problem because the inferred power value of an appliance given only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Michele DIncecco , Stefano Squartini , Mingjun Zhong

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

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

Improving energy efficiency is a necessity in the fight against climate change. Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) systems give important information about the household consumption that can be used by the electric utility or the end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Franco Marchesoni-Acland , Camilo Mariño , Elías Masquil , Pablo Masaferro , Alicia Fernández

Load forecasting is very essential in the analysis and grid planning of power systems. For this reason, we first propose a household load forecasting method based on federated deep learning and non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM). For all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Xinxin Zhou , Jingru Feng , Jian Wang , Jianhong Pan

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) enables the disaggregation of the global power consumption of multiple loads, taken from a single smart electrical meter, into appliance-level details. State-of-the-Art approaches are based on Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Enrico Tabanelli , Davide Brunelli , Andrea Acquaviva , Luca Benini

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) 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

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an advanced, and cost-effective technique for monitoring appliance-level energy consumption. However, its adaptability is hindered by the lack of transparency and explainability. To address this…

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

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