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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) offers a cost-effective method to obtain fine-grained appliance-level energy consumption in smart homes and building applications. However, the increasing adoption of behind-the-meter (BTM) energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xudong Wang , Guoming Tang , Junyu Xue , Srinivasan Keshav , Tongxin Li , Chris Ding

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

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

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

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

Increasing population indicates that energy demands need to be managed in the residential sector. Prior studies have reflected that the customers tend to reduce a significant amount of energy consumption if they are provided with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Sagar Verma , Shikha Singh , Angshul Majumdar

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

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

It is a common practice for utilities to down-sample smart meter measurements from high resolution (e.g. 1-min or 1-sec) to low resolution (e.g. 15-, 30- or 60-min) to lower the data transmission and storage cost. However, down-sampling can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Lidong Song , Yiyan Li , Ning Lu

Modern smart sensor-based energy management systems leverage non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) to predict and optimize appliance load distribution in real-time. NILM, or energy disaggregation, refers to the decomposition of electricity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Ziyi Kou , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

Synthetic appliance data are essential for developing non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms and enabling privacy preserving energy research, yet the scarcity of labeled datasets remains a significant barrier. Recent GAN-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zikun Guo , Adeyinka. P. Adedigba , Rammohan Mallipeddi

Energy disaggregation (a.k.a nonintrusive load monitoring, NILM), a single-channel blind source separation problem, aims to decompose the mains which records the whole house electricity consumption into appliance-wise readings. This problem…

Applications · Statistics 2018-01-19 Chaoyun Zhang , Mingjun Zhong , Zongzuo Wang , Nigel Goddard , Charles Sutton

Millions of smart meters have been deployed worldwide, collecting the total power consumed by individual households. Based on these data, electricity suppliers offer their clients energy monitoring solutions to provide feedback on the…

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

Provided an arbitrary nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) algorithm, we seek bounds on the probability of distinguishing between scenarios, given an aggregate power consumption signal. We introduce a framework for studying a general NILM…

Applications · Statistics 2013-10-30 Roy Dong , Lillian Ratliff , Henrik Ohlsson , S. Shankar Sastry

Event detection is the first step in event-based non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and it can provide useful transient information to identify appliances. However, existing event detection methods with fixed parameters may fail in case…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Lei Yan , Wei Tian , Jiayu Han , Zuyi Li

Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) play a pivotal role in safeguarding critical digital infrastructures against cyber threats. Machine learning-based detection models applied in NIDS are prevalent today. However, the effectiveness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xinxing Zhao , Kar Wai Fok , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Real active distribution networks with associated smart meter (SM) data are critical for power researchers. However, it is practically difficult for researchers to obtain such comprehensive datasets from utilities due to privacy concerns.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Rong Yan , Yuxuan Yuan , Zhaoyu Wang , Guangchao Geng , Quanyuan Jiang

Recent years have noticed an increasing interest among academia and industry towards analyzing the electrical consumption of residential buildings and employing smart home energy management systems (HEMS) to reduce household energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Mina Razghandi , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Damla Turgut

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) provides high-resolution electricity consumption data that can enhance monitoring, diagnosis, and decision making in modern power distribution systems. Detecting anomalies in these time-series…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Fahimeh Orvati Nia , Shima Salehi , Joshua Peeples