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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 a technique that uses a single sensor to measure the total power consumption of a building. Using an energy disaggregation method, the consumption of individual appliances can be estimated from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Antoine Langevin , Marc-André Carbonneau , Mohamed Cheriet , Ghyslain Gagnon

Non-intrusive load monitoring, or energy disaggregation, aims to separate household energy consumption data collected from a single point of measurement into appliance-level consumption data. In recent years, the field has rapidly expanded…

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

Understanding electric vehicle (EV) charging on the distribution network is key to effective EV charging management and aiding decarbonization across the energy and transport sectors. Advanced metering infrastructure has allowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Cameron Martin , Fucai Ke , Hao Wang

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

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

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

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

Electrical load classification is generally divided into intrusive and non-intrusive approaches, both having their limitations and advantages. With the non-intrusive approach, controlling appliances is not possible, but the installation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Dániel István Németh , Kálmán Tornai

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) has emerged as a key smart grid technology, identifying electrical device and providing detailed energy consumption data for precise demand response management. Nevertheless, NILM data suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yiran Wang , Tangtang Xie , Hao Wu

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

The smart grid initiative has encouraged utility companies worldwide to rollout new and smarter versions of energy meters. Before an extensive rollout, which is both labor-intensive and incurs high capital costs, consumers need to be…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Anwar Ul Haq , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

This work follows the approach of multi-label classification for non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM). We modify the popular sparse representation based classification (SRC) approach (developed for single label classification) to solve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Shikha Singh , Angshul Majumdar

Energy disaggregation estimates appliance-by-appliance electricity consumption from a single meter that measures the whole home's electricity demand. Compared with intrusive load monitoring, NILM (Non-intrusive load monitoring) is low cost,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jonah Edmonds , Zahraa S. Abdallah

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

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) aims to decompose aggregated electrical usage signal into appliance-specific power consumption and it amounts to a classical example of blind source separation tasks. Leveraging recent progress on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jialing He , Jiamou Liu , Zijian Zhang , Yang Chen , Yiwei Liu , Bakh Khoussainov , Liehuang Zhu

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

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

Transformer models have demonstrated impressive performance in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) applications in recent years. Despite their success, existing studies have not thoroughly examined the impact of various hyper-parameters on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Minhajur Rahman , Yasir Arafat