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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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xudong Wang , Guoming Tang , Junyu Xue , Srinivasan Keshav , Tongxin Li , Chris Ding

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) aims to estimate appliance-level consumption from aggregate electrical signals recorded at a single measurement point. In recent years, the field has increasingly adopted deep learning approaches;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 L. E. Garcia-Marrero , G. Petrone , E. Monmasson

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) aims to disaggregate total electricity consumption into individual appliance usage, thus enabling more effective energy management. While deep learning has advanced NILM, it remains limited by its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Junyu Xue , Xudong Wang , Xiaoling He , Shicheng Liu , Yi Wang , Guoming Tang

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), which usually utilizes machine learning methods and is effective in disaggregating smart meter readings from the household-level into appliance-level consumptions, can help to analyze electricity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shuang Dai , Fanlin Meng , Qian Wang , Xizhong Chen

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) is a key cost-effective technology for monitoring power consumption and contributing to several challenges encountered when transiting to an efficient, sustainable, and competitive energy efficiency…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Yassine Himeur , Abdullah Alsalemi , Faycal Bensaali , Abbes Amira

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) aims to predict the status or consumption of domestic appliances in a household only by knowing the aggregated power load. NILM can be formulated as regression problem or most often as a classification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Daniel Precioso , David Gómez-Ullate

Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an established technique for effective and cost-efficient electricity consumption management. The method is used to estimate appliance-level power consumption from aggregated power measurements. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Amanie Azzam , Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

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

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

Residential buildings with the ability to monitor and control their net-load (sum of load and generation) can provide valuable flexibility to power grid operators. We present a novel multiclass nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Govind Saraswat , Blake Lundstrom , Murti V Salapaka

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

In this paper, we investigate whether "big-data" is more valuable than "precise" data for the problem of energy disaggregation: the process of breaking down aggregate energy usage on a per-appliance basis. Existing techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Nipun Batra , Amarjeet Singh , Kamin Whitehouse

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

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

In recent times, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has emerged as an important tool for distribution-level energy management systems owing to its potential for energy conservation and management. However, load monitoring in smart…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Himanshu Grover , Lokesh Panwar , Ashu Verma , B. K. Panigrahi , T. S. Bhatti

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

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

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

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