Non-intrusive load monitoring techniques for the disaggregation of ON/OFF appliances

Energy Informatics

Research

Marco Castangia¹  Edoardo Patti¹  Awet Abraha Girmay¹  Enrico Macii¹  Angelica Urbanelli¹  Christian Camarda² 

[1] Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN), Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129, Torino, Italy;Midori s.r.l., Via Paolo Borsellino, 38, 10138, Torino, Italy;

关键词: Smart grids;    Appliance load monitoring;    Online clustering;    ON/OFF devices;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s42162-022-00242-3

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Nowadays, Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring techniques are sufficiently accurate to provide valuable insights to the end-users and improve their electricity behaviours. Indeed, previous works show that commonly used appliances (fridge, dishwasher, washing machine) can be easily disaggregated thanks to their abundance of electrical features. Nevertheless, there are still many ON/OFF devices (e.g. heaters, kettles, air conditioners, hair dryers) that present very poor power signatures, preventing their disaggregation with traditional algorithms. In this work, we propose a new online clustering method exploiting both operational features (peak power, duration) and external features (time of use, day of week, weekday/weekend) in order to recognize ON/OFF devices. The proposed algorithm is intended to support an existing disaggregation algorithm that is already able to classify at least 80% of the total energy consumption of the house. Thanks to our approach, we improved the performance of our existing disaggreation algorithm from 80% to 87% of the total energy consumption in the monitored houses. In particular, we found that 85% of the clusters were identified by only using operational features, while external features allowed us to identify the remaining 15% of the clusters. The algorithm needs to collect on average less than 40 operations to find a cluster, which demonstrates its applicability in the real world.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2022

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