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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

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) or energy disaggregation aims to extract the load profiles of individual consumer electronic appliances, given an aggregate load profile of the mains of a smart home. This work proposes a novel…

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

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

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

The primary objective of non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) techniques is to monitor and track power consumption within residential buildings. This is achieved by approximating the consumption of each individual appliance from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Sidi Mohammed Kaddour , Mohamed Lehsaini , Abdelhamid Bouchachia

Smart grid, through networked smart meters employing the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) technique, can considerably discern the usage patterns of residential appliances. However, this technique also incurs privacy leakage. To address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jialing He , Jiacheng Wang , Ning Wang , Shangwei Guo , Liehuang Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Tao Xiang

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

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

We propose a novel approach to enable Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) for Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring (NIALM), also known as Energy Disaggregation, through Bayesian Optimization. NIALM offers a cost-effective alternative to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Armin Moin , Ukrit Wattanavaekin , Alexandra Lungu , Stephan Rössler , Stephan Günnemann

With the help of smart metering valuable information of the appliance usage can be retrieved. In detail, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), also called load disaggregation, tries to identify appliances in the power draw of an household.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Dominik Egarter , Wilfried Elmenreich

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), 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

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

Energy disaggregation or Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) addresses the issue of extracting device-level energy consumption information by monitoring the aggregated signal at one single measurement point without installing meters on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Alireza Rahimpour , Hairong Qi , David Fugate , Teja Kuruganti

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

Existing methods of non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) in literatures generally suffer from high computational complexity and/or low accuracy in identifying working household appliances. This paper proposes an event-driven Factorial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Lei Yan , Wei Tian , Jiayu Han , Zuyi Li

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), also known as energy disaggregation, is a blind source separation problem where a household's aggregate electricity consumption is broken down into electricity usages of individual appliances. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Changho Shin , Sunghwan Joo , Jaeryun Yim , Hyoseop Lee , Taesup Moon , Wonjong Rhee

Energy disaggregation, known in the literature as Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), is the task of inferring the energy consumption of each appliance given the aggregate signal recorded by a single smart meter. In this paper, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Marco Balletti , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

Individual device loads and energy consumption feedback is one of the important approaches for pursuing users to save energy in residences. This can help in identifying faulty devices and wasted energy by devices when left On unused. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Ronak Aghera , Sahil Chilana , Vishal Garg , Raghunath Reddy