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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

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

An approach is described in this work for detecting discomfort moments during electrical water heater daily usage. The approach employs chromatic analyzing sensors signals of electrical water heater systems for producing distinguishable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Ziyad Almajali

We develop a scalable, computationally efficient method for the task of energy disaggregation for home appliance monitoring. In this problem the goal is to estimate the energy consumption of each appliance over time based on the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Kiarash Shaloudegi , András György , Csaba Szepesvári , Wilsun Xu

Smart meters are used to measure the energy consumption of households. Specifically, within the energy consumption task smart meter have been used for load forecasting, reduction of consumer bills as well as reduction of grid distortions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Pascal A. Schirmer , Iosif Mporas , Akbar Sheikh-Akbari

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

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) focuses on disaggregating total household power consumption into appliance-specific usage. Many advanced NILM methods are based on neural networks that typically require substantial amounts of labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Dhruv Patel , Ankita Kumari Jain , Haikoo Khandor , Xhitij Choudhary , Nipun Batra

With the emergence of cost effective battery storage and the decline in the solar photovoltaic (PV) levelized cost of energy (LCOE), the number of behind-the-meter solar PV systems is expected to increase steadily. The ability to estimate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Xinlei Chen , Moosa Moghimi Haji , Omid Ardakanian

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 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

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

Energy disaggregation, also known as non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), challenges the problem of separating the whole-home electricity usage into appliance-specific individual consumptions, which is a typical application of data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Zhekai Du , Jingjing Li , Lei Zhu , Ke Lu , Heng Tao Shen

This paper presents a new algorithm to extract device profiles fully unsupervised from three phases reactive and active aggregate power measurements. The extracted device profiles are applied for the disaggregation of the aggregate power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Karoline Brucke , Stefan Arens , Jan-Simon Telle , Thomas Steens , Benedikt Hanke , Karsten von Maydell , Carsten Agert

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

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

This paper describes an intelligent management algorithm for an aggregate of domestic electric water heaters called to provide a demand response service. This algorithm is developed using Model Predictive Control. The model of the entire…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 F. Conte , S. Massucco , F. Silvestro , D. Cirio , M. Rapizza

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

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 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