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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

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

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

In this demonstration, we present an open source toolkit for evaluating non-intrusive load monitoring research; a field which aims to disaggregate a household's total electricity consumption into individual appliances. The toolkit contains:…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Jack Kelly , Nipun Batra , Oliver Parson , Haimonti Dutta , William Knottenbelt , Alex Rogers , Amarjeet Singh , Mani Srivastava

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the residential sector, electric water heaters are appliances with a relatively high power consumption and a significant thermal inertia, which is particularly suitable for Demand Response schemes. The success of efficient DR schemes via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Thierry Zufferey , Gustavo Valverde , Gabriela Hug

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

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, 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

The issue of estimating the detailed appliance level load consumption has received considerable attention. This paper first presents a Labelled hIgh-Frequency daTaset for Electricity Disaggregation (LIFTED), which can be used for research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Lei Yan , Jiayu Han , Runnan Xu , Zuyi Li

Home absence detection is an emerging field on smart home installations. Identifying whether or not the residents of the house are present, is important in numerous scenarios. Possible scenarios include but are not limited to: elderly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Athanasios Lentzas , Dimitris Vrakas

The data collected by smart meters contain a lot of useful information. One potential use of the data is to track the energy consumptions and operating statuses of major home appliances.The results will enable homeowners to make sound…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 M. Dong , P. C. M. Meira , W. Xu , C. Y. Chung