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48 results for disaggregated loads

Paper proposes a novel optimization method for disaggregating smart meter data.

problem Energy disaggregation, inferring appliance-specific energy consumption from aggregate meter data.
method Two-stage optimization approach: first phase uses mixed integer programming, second phase binary quadratic optimization with penalty terms and appliance constraints.
result Proposed method successfully reconstructs appliance signatures, overcoming previous optimization-based methods' limitations.

Non-intrusive load monitoring or energy disaggregation involves estimating the power consumption of individual appliances from measurements of the total power consumption of a home. Deep neural networks have been shown to be effective for energy disaggregation. In this work, we present a deep neural network architectur…

2018-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved non-intrusive load monitoring with a novel neural network.

problem Accurately disaggregating household electricity consumption without dedicated meters.
method Developed a scale- and context-aware network with multi-scale features and contextual information.
result Significantly improved accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.

A new deep learning method for energy disaggregation.

problem Energy disaggregation or non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) to identify individual appliance power usage.
method Sequence to Point Learning based on Bidirectional Dilated Residual Network (BRDN).
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in all appliances on REDD and UK-DALE datasets.

Deep neural network improves NILM with attention mechanism.

problem Energy disaggregation of individual appliance power demands from aggregate meter readings.
method Regression and classification subnetworks with attention mechanism.
result Proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art on REDD and UK-DALE datasets.

Improves NILM with multi-label SRC, outperforming state-of-the-art.

problem Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) for energy disaggregation.
method Modified multi-label sparse representation based classification (SRC).
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art techniques with minimal training data.

A convolutional sequence to sequence non-intrusive load monitoring model is proposed in this paper. Gated linear unit convolutional layers are used to extract information from the sequences of aggregate electricity consumption. Residual blocks are also introduced to refine the output of the neural network. The partiall…

2018-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm extracts device profiles for short-term power predictions in commercial buildings.

problem Short-term power prediction in commercial buildings with high accuracy.
method Unsupervised extraction of device profiles from aggregate power measurements, disaggregation using particle swarm optimization, and state changes forecast by artificial neural networks.
result Developed approach outperforms existing methods with high accuracy.

The paper introduces metrics to evaluate NILM algorithms' performance on unseen buildings.

problem Assessing NILM algorithms' performance on new, unseen buildings.
method Developed several metrics to evaluate NILM algorithms' generalization ability.
result Demonstrated the utility of the proposed metrics through two case studies.

The paper evaluates various forecasting methods for inflation, finding ML models superior.

problem Forecasting inflation using disaggregated data and machine learning.
method Examines traditional and machine learning models, including random forest, for disaggregated and aggregated inflation forecasts.
result Aggregating disaggregated forecasts performs similarly to survey-based expectations and aggregate models.

New framework for interpreting disaggregated fairness evaluations using causal models.

problem Misinterpretation of disaggregated fairness evaluations due to data representativeness and selection bias.
method Causal graphical models to characterize fairness properties and metric stability under different data generating processes.
result Disaggregated evaluations are unreliable without explicit assumptions regarding bias mechanisms.

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 ho…

2018-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Energy is a limited resource which has to be managed wisely, taking into account both supply-demand matching and capacity constraints in the distribution grid. One aspect of the smart energy management at the building level is given by the problem of real-time detection of flexible demand available. In this paper we pr…

2016-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper addresses the energy disaggregation problem, i.e. decomposing the electricity signal of a whole home to its operating devices. First, we cast the problem as a dictionary learning (DL) problem where the key electricity patterns representing consumption behaviors are extracted for each device and stored in a d…

2018-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This thesis tackles NILM challenges with a new dataset and efficient edge deployment techniques.

problem Limited datasets and high computational power for NILM deployment.
method Developed an interoperable data collection framework and introduced model compression techniques.
result Efficient edge deployment of NILM models for global scalability and sustainability.

tempdisagg transforms low-frequency data into high-frequency estimates.

problem Transforming low-frequency data into high-frequency estimates.
method Uses econometric techniques including Chow-Lin, Denton, Litterman, Fernandez, and uniform interpolation.
result Transforms low-frequency aggregates into consistent, high-frequency estimates.

This paper presents a novel data-driven technique based on the spatiotemporal pattern network (STPN) for energy/power prediction for complex dynamical systems. Built on symbolic dynamic filtering, the STPN framework is used to capture not only the individual system characteristics but also the pair-wise causal dependen…

2017-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Review and compare sorting model selection methods for preference disaggregation.

problem Selecting a representative sorting model from multiple compatible models.
method Reviewed and proposed new procedures for selecting sorting models, including robust assignment rule.
result Identified most efficient procedures in terms of classification accuracy and robustness.

A new method improves AI fairness assessment by estimating performance across intersectional subgroups.

problem Limited evaluation of AI systems across intersectional subgroups due to small sample sizes.
method Structured regression approach to disaggregated evaluation.
result Our method yields more accurate performance estimates, especially for small subgroups.

Traditional load analysis is facing challenges with the new electricity usage patterns due to demand response as well as increasing deployment of distributed generations, including photovoltaics (PV), electric vehicles (EV), and energy storage systems (ESS). At the transmission system, despite of irregular load behavio…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

In (exploratory) factor analysis, the loading matrix is identified only up to orthogonal rotation. For identifiability, one thus often takes the loading matrix to be lower triangular with positive diagonal entries. In Bayesian inference, a standard practice is then to specify a prior under which the loadings are indepe…

2014-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper uses econometrics time series model with T-student Distribution for short-term load forecasting.

problem Accurate short-term load forecasting for optimizing electrical sources and protecting energy.
method Uses SARIMA-GARCH model with T-student Distribution to forecast electric load.
result The proposed model outperforms the ARIMA model with Normal Distribution.

We use online convex optimization (OCO) for setpoint tracking with uncertain, flexible loads. We consider full feedback from the loads, bandit feedback, and two intermediate types of feedback: partial bandit where a subset of the loads are individually observed and the rest are observed in aggregate, and Bernoulli feed…

2017-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes an unsupervised NILM framework using GLDA for diverse utility data.

problem Extract appliance components from aggregate energy signals without labeled data.
method Bayesian hierarchical mixture models, Gaussian Latent Dirichlet Allocation (GLDA), online processing.
result Algorithm finds useful consumption patterns from mixed utility data.

This paper uses a diffusion model to forecast electrical loads with uncertainty.

problem Uncertainties in electrical load forecasting due to renewable energy and external events.
method Diffusion-based Seq2Seq structure for epistemic uncertainty and robust additive Cauchy distribution for aleatoric uncertainty.
result Ability to separate and quantify both types of uncertainties in load forecasting.

Paper presents a method for probabilistic load forecasting using adaptive online learning.

problem Inability to assess intrinsic uncertainties and capture dynamic changes in consumption patterns.
method Adaptive online learning of hidden Markov models for recursive parameter updates and sequential prediction.
result Significant improvement in performance compared to existing techniques across various scenarios.

New method predicts heat load in thermal grids using latent variables.

problem Predicting heat load in district energy systems.
method Combines nominal model for outdoor temperature with latent variable model for residual heat load.
result Proposed method achieves better prediction accuracy than artificial neural networks.