Efficient neural network improves disaggregation of home energy usage.
problem Estimating power consumption of individual appliances from total home power.
method Fully convolutional neural network architecture with improved computational efficiency.
result Achieves state-of-the-art disaggregation performance with reduced training and prediction times.
Active sensing improves energy breakdown without installing sensors.
problem Reduce energy consumption by providing appliance-level energy breakdown.
method Active learning solution based on low-rank tensor completion.
result Our approach gives better performance with fewer sensors installed.
This paper discusses how usage patterns and preferences of inhabitants can be learned efficiently to allow smart homes to autonomously achieve energy savings. We propose a frequent sequential pattern mining algorithm suitable for real-life smart home event data. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared to …
We propose a new framework for single-channel source separation that lies between the fully supervised and unsupervised setting. Instead of supervision, we provide input features for each source signal and use convex methods to estimate the correlations between these features and the unobserved signal decomposition. We…
Crowdsourcing has been successfully applied in many domains including astronomy, cryptography and biology. In order to test its potential for useful application in a Smart Grid context, this paper investigates the extent to which a crowd can contribute predictive hypotheses to a model of residential electric energy con…
New indicator detects financial strain through smart meter data.
problem Fuel poverty in households, affecting millions.
method Smart meters and machine learning for behavior measurement.
result Early detection of financial strain in households.
This paper presents a case study of a recommender system that can be used to save energy in smart homes without lowering the comfort of the inhabitants. We present an algorithm that uses consumer behavior data only and uses machine learning to suggest actions for inhabitants to reduce the energy consumption of their ho…
Study optimizes building energy control and power planning using RL.
problem Optimizing academic buildings' HVAC and power systems.
method Reinforcement Learning (RL) for scheduling and planning.
result Algorithm optimizes hourly energy usage and handles short-term changes.
In coming years residential consumers will face real-time electricity tariffs with energy prices varying day to day, and effective energy saving will require automation - a recommender system, which learns consumer's preferences from her actions. A consumer chooses a scenario of home appliance use to balance her comfor…
Paper proposes transparent reporting of algorithmic energy usage to promote environmental sustainability.
problem Need for transparent reporting of algorithmic energy usage for environmental sustainability.
method Developed a Python package to make analyses of energy usage accessible to individual researchers, localized to specific power grids, and compared with global benchmarks.
result Demonstrated the use of automatically-generated Energy Usage Reports in model-choice for machine learning.
Investigations have been performed into using clustering methods in data mining time-series data from smart meters. The problem is to identify patterns and trends in energy usage profiles of commercial and industrial customers over 24-hour periods, and group similar profiles. We tested our method on energy usage data p…
Graphical Lasso algorithm segments occupants' energy usage behaviors in HC-CP systems.
problem Improving sustainability and energy efficiency in HC-CP systems.
method Introduced a gamification framework and applied Graphical Lasso for energy usage segmentation.
result Characterized different energy usage behaviors in HC-CP systems.
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.
Proposes a game-theoretic framework to motivate energy-efficient behavior in smart buildings.
problem Improving energy efficiency in smart building infrastructure through occupant behavior.
method Introduces a novel game-theoretic framework with human interaction, incorporating utility learning and deep neural networks.
result Demonstrates highly accurate prediction of occupant energy resource usage and explainable decision-making.
Novel segmentation method for energy game-theoretic frameworks using graphical lasso.
problem Difficulty in computing utility functions for high-player energy game-theoretic frameworks.
method Graphical Lasso based approach to cluster features leading to energy usage behaviors.
result Characteristic clusters demonstrating different energy usage behaviors identified.
Paper optimizes neural network layers to reduce energy usage without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Energy consumption in deep neural networks during inference.
method Layerwise noise maximization to optimize reliability of memory elements.
result Reduces memory energy consumption by 3.3 times at equal accuracy.
Optimal buying and selling times for homes in fluctuating interest rates.
problem Maximizing profit from buying and selling homes in a market with variable interest rates.
method Nested optimal stopping problem solved using a nonnegative concave majorant approach.
result Investor's optimal buying and selling strategies derived for CIR interest rates.
Paper presents an energy-efficient RL method for sensor networks.
problem Energy consumption in sensor networks for health monitoring.
method Adaptive Reinforcement Learning framework using SARSA algorithm.
result Achieves performance enhancement and energy savings over time.
Model predicts web page parallelism for improved browser performance and energy.
problem Improving browser performance and energy usage through parallelism.
method Supervised learning model using web page primitives and parallelism features.
result Model predicts parallelism and optimizes performance and energy usage.
Recently, a wide range of smart devices are deployed in a variety of environments to improve the quality of human life. One of the important IoT-based applications is smart homes for healthcare, especially for elders. IoT-based smart homes enable elders' health to be properly monitored and taken care of. However, elder…
The paper introduces mortgage-rate-adjusted home prices to help buyers and adjust housing indices.
problem Impact of mortgage rates on home prices and property purchase decisions.
method Derives mortgage-rate-adjusted 'effective price' and constructs a price-mortgage rate neutrality line.
result Mortgage rates significantly affect home prices over long periods but not during the pandemic.
Examines how extending home loan durations affects French households financially.
problem Financial implications for households with extended home loan durations.
method Analysis of French and international home loan systems, including bullet loans and Japanese home loans.
result Extending home loan durations can reduce monthly payments but raises financial risks.
Paper proposes MAMRL for efficient energy dispatch in self-powered edge computing systems.
problem High energy consumption in self-powered edge computing systems.
method Developed a semi-distributed data-driven MAMRL framework to solve a two-stage linear stochastic programming problem.
result The proposed MAMRL framework reduces up to 11% non-renewable energy usage and 22.4% energy cost.
Home entertainment systems feature in a variety of usage scenarios with one or more simultaneous users, for whom the complexity of choosing media to consume has increased rapidly over the last decade. Users' decision processes are complex and highly influenced by contextual settings, but data supporting the development…
In a voice-controlled smart-home, a controller must respond not only to user's requests but also according to the interaction context. This paper describes Arcades, a system which uses deep reinforcement learning to extract context from a graphical representation of home automation system and to update continuously its…
New method learns time-varying home field advantage in football.
problem Discovering causal factors behind home field advantage in sports.
method DYNAMO: a novel causal discovery method for non-stationary processes.
result Time-varying home field advantages influenced by referee bias.
Smart meters detect dementia patients' daily activities to prevent crises.
problem Monitoring dementia patients' daily activities without intruding.
method Machine learning and signal processing for smart meter load disaggregation.
result SVM and Decision Forest models accurately detect ADLs and routine changes.
Study uses SVM to predict weather-induced home insurance claims and losses.
problem Assessing future weather-induced home insurance claims and losses for disaster preparedness.
method Support Vector Machine (SVM) regression for forecasting future claim dynamics.
result Illustrates SVM approach in forecasting weather-induced home insurance claims in a Canadian city.
Quantum computing offers energy savings over classical computing.
problem Energy efficiency in computing services.
method Cournot competition model constrained by energy usage.
result Quantum computing firms can outperform classical counterparts in energy efficiency.
Smart grid uses deep learning to optimize household energy use.
problem Optimizing household energy use under real-time pricing schemes.
method Multi-agent deep actor-critic learning for decentralized agents with partial observability.
result Deep reinforcement learning reduces peak-to-average energy consumption and costs.
Analyzes national real estate investment risks and returns.
problem Investors and home buyers face increasing costs and risks.
method Examines economic vulnerabilities and traditional market analysis.
result Ensures positive returns and fair prices for real estate investments.
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…
Enhanced tabular benchmarks for energy-efficient neural architecture search.
problem Energy consumption in deep learning models.
method Introducing EC-NAS, an enhanced tabular benchmark with energy consumption data.
result EC-NAS reveals a balance between energy usage and accuracy in neural architecture search.
Study integrates ESG factors into home price predictions for U.S. cities.
problem Predicting average annual home prices using ESG factors.
method Used P-spline GAM and GLM models, transformed time series data.
result ESG factors influence home prices differently by city.
Proposes Learnergy, a Python framework for energy-based machine learning.
problem Lack of research and implementations around energy-based systems.
method Built upon PyTorch, Learnergy provides a more friendly environment and faster prototyping.
result Learnergy speeds up computational time using CUDA.
Advances in renewable energy generation and introduction of the government targets to improve energy efficiency gave rise to a concept of a Zero Energy Building (ZEB). A ZEB is a building whose net energy usage over a year is zero, i.e., its energy use is not larger than its overall renewables generation. A collection …
Proposes ML-RBM for non-intrusive load monitoring without appliance-level data.
problem Non-intrusive load monitoring without appliance-level data.
method Multi-label Restricted Boltzmann Machine (ML-RBM)
result Experimental evaluation of proposed and state-of-the-art techniques.
Twitter releases dataset to study user engagement on Home Timeline, focusing on privacy.
problem Limited exploration of user feedback on Twitter's Home Timeline.
method Release of a large-scale dataset of 160 million Tweets with engagement information.
result Demonstrates challenges in predicting user engagements and privacy concerns.
Paper explores activity recognition and prediction in real homes using sensor data and video.
problem Improving accuracy of activity recognition and prediction in real home environments.
method Binary sensor data, depth video data, field trial, probabilistic methods, LSTM networks, transfer learning, IIR filter.
result Achieved good accuracy in predicting next sensor event and its mean time of occurrence using LSTM model.
Study shows how algorithmic prediction affects US housing market, reducing racial wealth disparities.
problem Impact of algorithmic prediction on housing market and racial wealth disparities.
method Natural experiment using digitization of housing records to study entry, allocation, and prices.
result Digitization leads to increased sale prices for minority-owned homes, reducing racial wealth disparities.
REST improves robustness and efficiency of sleep monitoring models.
problem Noise and energy efficiency in deep learning models for home health monitoring.
method Adversarial training and spectral/sparsity regularization.
result REST models achieve 19x parameter reduction and 15x MFLOPS reduction with 17x energy reduction and 9x faster inference.
Automated model tracks mouse behavior in home cages.
problem Confounding analysis in specialized arenas.
method Group Behaviour Model (GBM) using permutation matrix.
result Model captures individual and group behavior.
Federated learning improves wake word detection in smart home devices.
problem Out-of-domain issues with continuously running speech-based models.
method Federated learning with adaptive averaging strategy.
result Reduces communication rounds and upstream communication costs.
SafeAccess identifies people in smart homes for safer access.
problem Enhancing safety and independence for people with disabilities.
method Change detection, Faster-RCNN, LBP/FaceNet, MTCNN, MMS.
result Average F-score of 0.97 for identifying friends/families/caregivers versus intruders/unknown.
NFs improve on HEP's complex data, tested on increasing dimensions.
problem Leveraging NFs for high-dimensional data in HEP.
method Tested various NF types on toy datasets with varying dimensions.
result NFs robustness increases with higher dimensions.
Overprocuring reserves can improve network efficiency by using excess reserves for congestion management.
problem Optimizing energy and reserve allocation between zones to minimize costs and ensure deliverability.
method Developed allocation models for co-allocating traded energy and reserve products, considering both deterministic and stochastic flows.
result Excess reserve supplies can be used for congestion management, leading to additional network benefits.
FedRule uses graph neural networks to recommend rules for smart homes without centralizing data.
problem Manual rule setup for smart devices is inefficient and privacy-compromising.
method FedRule constructs user-specific graphs for rule recommendation, using federated learning to protect privacy.
result FedRule achieves comparable performance to centralized methods and outperforms others.
We present a variational renormalization group (RG) approach using a deep generative model based on normalizing flows. The model performs hierarchical change-of-variables transformations from the physical space to a latent space with reduced mutual information. Conversely, the neural net directly maps independent Gauss…