Real-time detection of smart meter events with odysseus

Abstract

The energy grid is changing rapidly to include volatile, renewable energy sources to help achieve climate goals. The transition to a smart grid, including smart meters for the metering and communication of the energy consumption, helps with that transition. The smart meters provide a stream of measurements, which can be used for additional services, such as visualization of power consumption. Detecting switching events, when devices in a household are switched on or off, is one possible application on smart meter data. The goal of the ACM DEBS Grand Challenge 2020 is to implement a live switch detection on a data stream from a smart meter for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring. This paper presents a solution for the challenge with a general purpose and open source data stream management system that focuses on reusable, generic operators instead of a custom black-box implementation.