Title
New Appliance Detection for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
Abstract
Current methods for nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) problems assume that the number of appliances in the target location is known, however, this may not be realistic. In real-world situations, the initial setup of the site can be known but new appliances may be added by users after a period of time, especially in a household or nonrestrictive scenarios. In this sense, current methods without detecting new appliances may not accurately monitor loads of different appliances and scenarios. In this paper, a novel new appliance detection method is proposed for NILM with imbalance classification for appliances switching <sc xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ON</sc> or <sc xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">OFF</sc> . The prediction of appliances being switched <sc xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ON</sc> or <sc xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">OFF</sc> is an important step in load monitoring and the switching on frequencies for coffee machine and air conditioning in a household are different, making the problem inherently imbalanced. Experimental results show that the proposed method yields outstanding performance against the well-known oversampling method, synthetic minority oversampling technique, on real NILM applications in scenarios with new appliances emerging.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tii.2019.2916213
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Monitoring,Home appliances,Noise measurement,Switches,Training,Hidden Markov models,Sensors
Nonintrusive load monitoring,Air conditioning,Noise measurement,Oversampling,Computer science,Real-time computing,Control engineering,Hidden Markov model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
8
1551-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianjun Zhang193.48
Xuanqun Chen210.36
Wing W. Y. Ng352856.12
Chun Sing Lai44115.62
Loi Lei Lai513538.72