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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

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

With the increased demand on economy and efficiency of measurement technology, Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) has received more and more attention as a cost-effective way to monitor electricity and provide feedback to users. Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Gan Zhou , Zhi Li , Meng Fu , Yanjun Feng , Xingyao Wang , Chengwei Huang

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) or energy disaggregation aims to break down total household energy consumption into constituent appliances. Prior work has shown that providing an energy breakdown can help people save up to 15\% of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Aadesh Desai , Gautam Vashishtha , Zeel B Patel , Nipun Batra

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

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

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

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) helps meet energy conservation goals by estimating individual appliance power usage from a single aggregate measurement. Deep neural networks have become increasingly popular in attempting to solve NILM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Alon Harell , Stephen Makonin , Ivan V. Bajić

Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an established technique for effective and cost-efficient electricity consumption management. The method is used to estimate appliance-level power consumption from aggregated power measurements. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Amanie Azzam , Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a well-known single-channel blind source separation problem that aims to decompose the household energy consumption into itemised energy usage of individual appliances. In this way, considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yu Zhang , Guoming Tang , Qianyi Huang , Yi Wang , Hong Xu

The growing global energy demand and the urgent need for sustainability call for innovative ways to boost energy efficiency. While advanced energy-saving systems exist, they often fall short without user engagement. Providing feedback on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Sotirios Athanasoulias

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

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

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

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 an advanced load monitoring technique that uses data-driven algorithms to disaggregate the total power consumption of a household into the consumption of individual appliances. However, real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sahar Moghimian Hoosh , Ilia Kamyshev , Henni Ouerdane

Being able to track appliances energy usage without the need of sensors can help occupants reduce their energy consumption to help save the environment all while saving money. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) tries to do just that. One…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Alejandro Rodriguez-Silva , Stephen Makonin

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

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