scholarly journals MC-NILM: A Multi-Chain Disaggregation Method for NILM

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4331
Author(s):  
Hao Ma ◽  
Juncheng Jia ◽  
Xinhao Yang ◽  
Weipeng Zhu ◽  
Hong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Time Complexity ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
High Time ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Energy Disaggregation ◽  
Load Monitoring

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is an approach that helps residents obtain detailed information about household electricity consumption and has gradually become a research focus in recent years. Most of the existing algorithms on NILM build energy disaggregation models independently for an individual appliance while neglecting the relation among them. For this situation, this article proposes a multi-chain disaggregation method for NILM (MC-NILM). MC-NILM integrates the models generated by existing algorithms and considers the relation among these models to improve the performance of energy disaggregation. Given the high time complexity of searching for the optimal MC-NILM structure, this article proposes two methods to reduce the time complexity, the k-length chain method and the graph-based chain generation method. Finally, we use the Dataport and UK-DALE datasets to evaluate the feasibility, effectiveness, and generality of the MC-NILM.

scholarly journals Energy Disaggregation Using Two-Stage Fusion of Binary Device Detectors

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal A. Schirmer ◽  
Iosif Mporas ◽  
Akbar Sheikh-Akbari
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Energy Disaggregation ◽  
Stage Classification ◽  
Load Monitoring ◽  
Detection Score

A data-driven methodology to improve the energy disaggregation accuracy during Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring is proposed. In detail, the method uses a two-stage classification scheme, with the first stage consisting of classification models processing the aggregated signal in parallel and each of them producing a binary device detection score, and the second stage consisting of fusion regression models for estimating the power consumption for each of the electrical appliances. The accuracy of the proposed approach was tested on three datasets—ECO (Electricity Consumption & Occupancy), REDD (Reference Energy Disaggregation Data Set), and iAWE (Indian Dataset for Ambient Water and Energy)—which are available online, using four different classifiers. The presented approach improves the estimation accuracy by up to 4.1% with respect to a basic energy disaggregation architecture, while the improvement on device level was up to 10.1%. Analysis on device level showed significant improvement of power consumption estimation accuracy especially for continuous and nonlinear appliances across all evaluated datasets.

scholarly journals Subtask Gated Networks for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1150-1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changho Shin ◽  
Sunghwan Joo ◽  
Jaeryun Yim ◽  
Hyoseop Lee ◽  
Taesup Moon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Seminal Paper ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Energy Disaggregation ◽  
Load Monitoring ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
Standby Power ◽  
Measurement Devices ◽  
Classification Probability ◽  
The Cost

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 way, the cost and trouble of installing many measurement devices over numerous household appliances can be avoided, and only one device needs to be installed. The problem has been well-known since Hart’s seminal paper in 1992, and recently significant performance improvements have been achieved by adopting deep networks. In this work, we focus on the idea that appliances have on/off states, and develop a deep network for further performance improvements. Specifically, we propose a subtask gated network that combines the main regression network with an on/off classification subtask network. Unlike typical multitask learning algorithms where multiple tasks simply share the network parameters to take advantage of the relevance among tasks, the subtask gated network multiply the main network’s regression output with the subtask’s classification probability. When standby-power is additionally learned, the proposed solution surpasses the state-of-the-art performance for most of the benchmark cases. The subtask gated network can be very effective for any problem that inherently has on/off states.

scholarly journals Data Requirements for Applying Machine Learning to Energy Disaggregation

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changho Shin ◽  
Seungeun Rho ◽  
Hyoseop Lee ◽  
Wonjong Rhee
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Sampling Rate ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Parameter Tuning ◽  
Data Sampling ◽  
Energy Disaggregation ◽  
Load Monitoring ◽  
Data Sampling Rate ◽  
Data Requirements

Energy disaggregation, or nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM), is a technology for separating a household’s aggregate electricity consumption information. Although this technology was developed in 1992, its practical usage and mass deployment have been rather limited, possibly because the commonly used datasets are not adequate for NILM research. In this study, we report the findings from a newly collected dataset that contains 10 Hz sampling data for 58 houses. The dataset not only contains the aggregate measurements, but also individual appliance measurements for three types of appliances. By applying three classification algorithms (vanilla DNN (Deep Neural Network), ML (Machine Learning) with feature engineering, and CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) with hyper-parameter tuning) and a recent regression algorithm (Subtask Gated Network) to the new dataset, we show that NILM performance can be significantly limited when the data sampling rate is too low or when the number of distinct houses in the dataset is too small. The well-known NILM datasets that are popular in the research community do not meet these requirements. Our results indicate that higher quality datasets should be used to expedite the progress of NILM research.

scholarly journals Efficient Design of Energy Disaggregation Model with BERT-NILM Trained by AdaX Optimization Method for Smart Grid

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4649
Author(s):  
İsmail Hakkı ÇAVDAR ◽  
Vahit FERYAD
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grids ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Energy Disaggregation ◽  
Load Monitoring

One of the basic conditions for the successful implementation of energy demand-side management (EDM) in smart grids is the monitoring of different loads with an electrical load monitoring system. Energy and sustainability concerns present a multitude of issues that can be addressed using approaches of data mining and machine learning. However, resolving such problems due to the lack of publicly available datasets is cumbersome. In this study, we first designed an efficient energy disaggregation (ED) model and evaluated it on the basis of publicly available benchmark data from the Residential Energy Disaggregation Dataset (REDD), and then we aimed to advance ED research in smart grids using the Turkey Electrical Appliances Dataset (TEAD) containing household electricity usage data. In addition, the TEAD was evaluated using the proposed ED model tested with benchmark REDD data. The Internet of things (IoT) architecture with sensors and Node-Red software installations were established to collect data in the research. In the context of smart metering, a nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) model was designed to classify household appliances according to TEAD data. A highly accurate supervised ED is introduced, which was designed to raise awareness to customers and generate feedback by demand without the need for smart sensors. It is also cost-effective, maintainable, and easy to install, it does not require much space, and it can be trained to monitor multiple devices. We propose an efficient BERT-NILM tuned by new adaptive gradient descent with exponential long-term memory (Adax), using a deep learning (DL) architecture based on bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT). In this paper, an improved training function was designed specifically for tuning of NILM neural networks. We adapted the Adax optimization technique to the ED field and learned the sequence-to-sequence patterns. With the updated training function, BERT-NILM outperformed state-of-the-art adaptive moment estimation (Adam) optimization across various metrics on REDD datasets; lastly, we evaluated the TEAD dataset using BERT-NILM training.

An improved OPTICS clustering algorithm for discovering clusters with uneven densities

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1453-1471
Author(s):  
Chunhua Tang ◽  
Han Wang ◽  
Zhiwen Wang ◽  
Xiangkun Zeng ◽  
Huaran Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Complexity ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Clustering Algorithms ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
High Time ◽  
Parameter Setting ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Density Based Clustering

Most density-based clustering algorithms have the problems of difficult parameter setting, high time complexity, poor noise recognition, and weak clustering for datasets with uneven density. To solve these problems, this paper proposes FOP-OPTICS algorithm (Finding of the Ordering Peaks Based on OPTICS), which is a substantial improvement of OPTICS (Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure). The proposed algorithm finds the demarcation point (DP) from the Augmented Cluster-Ordering generated by OPTICS and uses the reachability-distance of DP as the radius of neighborhood eps of its corresponding cluster. It overcomes the weakness of most algorithms in clustering datasets with uneven densities. By computing the distance of the k-nearest neighbor of each point, it reduces the time complexity of OPTICS; by calculating density-mutation points within the clusters, it can efficiently recognize noise. The experimental results show that FOP-OPTICS has the lowest time complexity, and outperforms other algorithms in parameter setting and noise recognition.

scholarly journals Statistical and Electrical Features Evaluation for Electrical Appliances Energy Disaggregation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Schirmer ◽  
Iosif Mporas
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Random Forest Regression ◽  
Nearest Neighbours ◽  
Energy Disaggregation ◽  
Vector Machines ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Load Monitoring ◽  
Sinusoidal Current

In this paper we evaluate several well-known and widely used machine learning algorithms for regression in the energy disaggregation task. Specifically, the Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring approach was considered and the K-Nearest-Neighbours, Support Vector Machines, Deep Neural Networks and Random Forest algorithms were evaluated across five datasets using seven different sets of statistical and electrical features. The experimental results demonstrated the importance of selecting both appropriate features and regression algorithms. Analysis on device level showed that linear devices can be disaggregated using statistical features, while for non-linear devices the use of electrical features significantly improves the disaggregation accuracy, as non-linear appliances have non-sinusoidal current draw and thus cannot be well parametrized only by their active power consumption. The best performance in terms of energy disaggregation accuracy was achieved by the Random Forest regression algorithm.

scholarly journals Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Based on Advanced Deep Learning and Novel Signature

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihyun Kim ◽  
Thi-Thu-Huong Le ◽  
Howon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Robust Solution ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Load Monitoring

Monitoring electricity consumption in the home is an important way to help reduce energy usage. Nonintrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is existing technique which helps us monitor electricity consumption effectively and costly. NILM is a promising approach to obtain estimates of the electrical power consumption of individual appliances from aggregate measurements of voltage and/or current in the distribution system. Among the previous studies, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based models have been studied very much. However, increasing appliances, multistate of appliances, and similar power consumption of appliances are three big issues in NILM recently. In this paper, we address these problems through providing our contributions as follows. First, we proposed state-of-the-art energy disaggregation based on Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network (LSTM-RNN) model and additional advanced deep learning. Second, we proposed a novel signature to improve classification performance of the proposed model in multistate appliance case. We applied the proposed model on two datasets such as UK-DALE and REDD. Via our experimental results, we have confirmed that our model outperforms the advanced model. Thus, we show that our combination between advanced deep learning and novel signature can be a robust solution to overcome NILM’s issues and improve the performance of load identification.

Fast and Effective Copy-Move Detection of Digital Audio Based on Auto Segment

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinchao Huang ◽  
Zihan Liu ◽  
Wei Lu ◽  
Hongmei Liu ◽  
Shijun Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Time Complexity ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Activity Detection ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Audio Forensics ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Audio Data ◽  
Adjacent Segments ◽  
Voice Activity

Detecting digital audio forgeries is a significant research focus in the field of audio forensics. In this article, the authors focus on a special form of digital audio forgery—copy-move—and propose a fast and effective method to detect doctored audios. First, the article segments the input audio data into syllables by voice activity detection and syllable detection. Second, the authors select the points in the frequency domain as feature by applying discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to each audio segment. Furthermore, this article sorts every segment according to the features and gets a sorted list of audio segments. In the end, the article merely compares one segment with some adjacent segments in the sorted list so that the time complexity is decreased. After comparisons with other state of the art methods, the results show that the proposed method can identify the authentication of the input audio and locate the forged position fast and effectively.

scholarly journals Design of an electricity consumption measurement system for Non Intrusive Load Monitoring

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarra Houidi ◽  
Francois Auger ◽  
Philippe Fretaud ◽  
Dominique Fourer ◽  
Laurence Miegeville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Measurement System ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Load Monitoring
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