A low rate energy disaggregation using non-intrusive load monitoring

Abstract

Nowadays, Energy conservation and management are a must practice due to the exponentially increasing energy usage. One solution for providing for energy conservation is appliance load monitoring. Load monitoring approach should be simple and of low cost in order to be massively deployable. Non-Intrusive load monitoring is a better approach since it can disaggregate energy at the cost of single energy meter. A low sampling rate energy meter incurs low cost compared to a high sampling rate energy meter. In this paper a less complex, low cost energy disaggregation approach has been proposed.