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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is critical for applications in healthcare, fitness, and IoT, but deploying accurate models on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high energy and memory demands. This paper demonstrates…
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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…
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…
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