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Energy disaggregation, also known as non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), challenges the problem of separating the whole-home electricity usage into appliance-specific individual consumptions, which is a typical application of data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Zhekai Du , Jingjing Li , Lei Zhu , Ke Lu , Heng Tao Shen

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

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

Load forecasting is very essential in the analysis and grid planning of power systems. For this reason, we first propose a household load forecasting method based on federated deep learning and non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM). For all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Xinxin Zhou , Jingru Feng , Jian Wang , Jianhong Pan

Improving energy efficiency is a necessity in the fight against climate change. Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) systems give important information about the household consumption that can be used by the electric utility or the end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Franco Marchesoni-Acland , Camilo Mariño , Elías Masquil , Pablo Masaferro , Alicia Fernández

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a computational technique to estimate the power loads' appliance-by-appliance from the whole consumption measured by a single meter. In this paper, we propose a conditional density estimation model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Luis Felipe M. O. Henriques , Eduardo Morgan , Sergio Colcher , Ruy Luiz Milidiú

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) helps meet energy conservation goals by estimating individual appliance power usage from a single aggregate measurement. Deep neural networks have become increasingly popular in attempting to solve NILM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Alon Harell , Stephen Makonin , Ivan V. Bajić

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 pivotal in today's energy landscape, offering vital solutions for energy conservation and efficient management. Its growing importance in enhancing energy savings and understanding consumer behavior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Liu , Yi Wang , Jin Ma

In this paper, a novel neural network architecture is proposed to address the challenges in energy disaggregation algorithms. These challenges include the limited availability of data and the complexity of disaggregating a large number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Sahar Moghimian Hoosh , Ilia Kamyshev , 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

Monitoring electricity consumption at the appliance level is crucial for increasing energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings. Using a single meter, the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) breaks down household consumption…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Ilia Kamyshev , Sahar Moghimian , Henni Ouerdane

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

Industrial Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is limited by the scarcity of high-quality datasets and the complex variability of industrial energy consumption patterns. To address data scarcity and privacy issues, we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Christian Internò , Andrea Castellani , Sebastian Schmitt , Fabio Stella , Barbara Hammer

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

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

Event detection is the first step in event-based non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and it can provide useful transient information to identify appliances. However, existing event detection methods with fixed parameters may fail in case…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Lei Yan , Wei Tian , Jiayu Han , Zuyi Li

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

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 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