Multivariate Exploration of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring via Spatiotemporal Pattern Network

Gregor Henze, Chao Liu, Adedotun Akintayo, Zhanhong Jiang, Soumik Sarkar

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Abstract

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) of electrical demand for the purpose of identifying load components has thus far mostly been studied using univariate data, e.g., using only whole building electricity consumption time series to identify a certain type of end-use such as lighting load. However, using additional variables in the form of multivariate time series data may provide more information in terms of extracting distinguishable features in the context of energy disaggregation. In this work, a novel probabilistic graphical modeling approach, namely the spatiotemporal pattern network (STPN) is proposed for energy disaggregation using multivariate time-series data. The STPN framework is shown to be capable of handling diverse types of multivariate time-series to improve the energy disaggregation performance. The technique outperforms the state of the art factorial hidden Markov models (FHMM) and combinatorial optimization (CO) techniques in multiple real-life test cases. Furthermore, based on two homes' aggregate electric consumption data, a similarity metric is defined for the energy disaggregation of one home using a trained model based on the other home (i.e., out-of-sample case). The proposed similarity metric allows us to enhance scalability via learning supervised models for a few homes and deploying such models to many other similar but unmodeled homes with significantly high disaggregation accuracy.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)1106-1122
Number of pages17
JournalApplied Energy
Volume211
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5500-70719

Keywords

  • multivariate time-series
  • non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM)
  • spatiotemporal pattern network (STPN)

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