Smart Non-Intrusive Appliance Load-Monitoring System Based on Phase Diagram Analysis

Abstract

Much of today’s power grid was designed and built using technologies and organizational principles developed decades ago. The lack of energy resources and classic power networks are the main causes of the development of the smart grid to efficiently use energy resources, with stable and safe operation. In such a network, one of the fundamental priorities is provided by non-intrusive appliance load monitoring (NIALM) in order to analyze, recognize and determine the electricity consumption of each consumer. In this paper, we propose a new smart system approach for the characterization of the appliance load signature based on a data-driven method, namely the phase diagram. Our aim is to use the non-intrusive load monitoring of appliances in order to recognize different types of consumers that can exist within a smart building.

Keywords

• non-intrusive load-monitoring
• appliance signature
• NIALM
• load management
• smart grid
• phase diagram