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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

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

In the recent years, there has been an increasing academic and industrial interest for analyzing the electrical consumption of commercial buildings. Whilst having similarities with the Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) tasks for…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Simon Henriet , Umut Simsekli , Benoit Fuentes , Gaël Richard

The housing structures have changed with urbanization and the growth due to the construction of high-rise buildings all around the world requires end-use appliance energy conservation and management in real-time. This shift also came along…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Akriti Verma , Adnan Anwar , M. A. Parvez Mahmud , Mohiuddin Ahmed , Abbas Kouzani

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is an important topic in smart-grid and smart-home. Many energy disaggregation algorithms have been proposed to detect various individual appliances from one aggregated signal observation. However, few…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhilin Zhang , Jae Hyun Son , Ying Li , Mark Trayer , Zhouyue Pi , Dong Yoon Hwang , Joong Ki Moon

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 estimates appliance-by-appliance electricity consumption from a single meter that measures the whole home's electricity demand. Recently, deep neural networks have driven remarkable improvements in classification…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Jack Kelly , William Knottenbelt

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

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

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

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) 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

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

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

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 to estimate appliance-level consumption from aggregate electrical signals recorded at a single measurement point. In recent years, the field has increasingly adopted deep learning approaches;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 L. E. Garcia-Marrero , G. Petrone , E. Monmasson

The problem of identifying end-use electrical appliances from their individual consumption profiles, known as the appliance identification problem, is a primary stage in both Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) and automated plug-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Karim Said Barsim , Lukas Mauch , Bin Yang

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

Monitoring electricity consumption at the appliance level is crucial for increasing energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings. Using a single meter, the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) breaks down household consumption…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Ilia Kamyshev , Sahar Moghimian , Henni Ouerdane

Non-intrusive load monitoring or energy disaggregation involves estimating the power consumption of individual appliances from measurements of the total power consumption of a home. Deep neural networks have been shown to be effective for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Cillian Brewitt , Nigel Goddard