Test Set Validation for Home Electrical Signal Disaggregation

• Published in: 2014 Eighth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing pp. 415 - 420
• Main Authors: Dufour, Luc, Genoud, Dominique, Rizzo, Gianluca, Jara, Antonio J., Roduit, Pierre, Bezian, Jean Jacques, Ladevie, Bruno
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-07-2014
• Subjects: Heat pumps; Home appliances; Prediction algorithms; Production; Reactive power; Support vector machines; Training
• DOI: 10.1109/IMIS.2014.56

In order to enable demand response schemes for residential and industrial users, it is crucial to be able to predict and monitor each component of the total power consumption of a household or of an industrial site over time. We used the cross-validation method which is a model validation technique for assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent data set. It is mainly used in settings where the goal is prediction, and one wants to estimate how accurately a predictive model will perform in practice. We exploit Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques in order to provide behavior patterns of the variables identified. This work presents a review Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques and describe the results of recognition patterns used for the identification of electrical devices. The proposed method has been validated on an experimental setting and using direct measurements of appliances consumption, proving that it allows achieving a high level of accuracy in load disaggregation.