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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

Energy management systems (EMS) rely on (non)-intrusive load monitoring (N)ILM to monitor and manage appliances and help residents be more energy efficient and thus more frugal. The robustness as well as the transfer potential of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Blaž Bertalanič , Jakob Jenko , Carolina Fortuna

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

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

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

The rapid urbanization of developing countries coupled with explosion in construction of high rising buildings and the high power usage in them calls for conservation and efficient energy program. Such a program require monitoring of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Anthony Faustine , Nerey Henry Mvungi , Shubi Kaijage , Kisangiri Michael

The global effort toward renewable energy and the electrification of energy-intensive sectors have significantly increased the demand for electricity, making energy efficiency a critical focus. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) enables…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Ilia Kamyshev , Sahar Moghimian Hoosh , Dmitrii Kriukov , Elena Gryazina , Henni Ouerdane

The existence of noisy labels in real-world data negatively impacts the performance of deep learning models. Although much research effort has been devoted to improving robustness to noisy labels in classification tasks, the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Chang Liu , Han Yu , Boyang Li , Zhiqi Shen , Zhanning Gao , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Lizhen Cui , Chunyan Miao

Deep learning models for non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) tend to require a large amount of labeled data for training. However, it is difficult to generalize the trained models to unseen sites due to different load characteristics and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Shuyi Chen , Bochao Zhao , Mingjun Zhong , Wenpeng Luan , Yixin Yu

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

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

Non intrusive load monitoring (NILM), or energy disaggregation, is the process of separating the total electricity consumption of a building as measured at single point into the building's constituent loads. Previous research in the field…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Nipun Batra , Oliver Parson , Mario Berges , Amarjeet Singh , Alex Rogers

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

A central goal in deep learning is to learn compact representations of features at every layer of a neural network, which is useful for both unsupervised representation learning and structured network pruning. While there is a growing body…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jie Bu , Arka Daw , M. Maruf , Anuj Karpatne

Class incremental learning (CIL) algorithms aim to continually learn new object classes from incrementally arriving data while not forgetting past learned classes. The common evaluation protocol for CIL algorithms is to measure the average…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sungmin Cha , Jihwan Kwak , Dongsub Shim , Hyunwoo Kim , Moontae Lee , Honglak Lee , Taesup Moon

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) 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

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), as a key load monitoring technology, can much reduce the deployment cost of traditional power sensors. Previous research has largely focused on developing cloud-exclusive NILM algorithms, which often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Junyu Xue , Yu Zhang , Xudong Wang , Yi Wang , Guoming Tang

Network representation learning (NRL) is an effective graph analytics technique and promotes users to deeply understand the hidden characteristics of graph data. It has been successfully applied in many real-world tasks related to network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ke Sun , Lei Wang , Bo Xu , Wenhong Zhao , Shyh Wei Teng , Feng Xia