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Cost-effective instrumentation via NILM to support a residential energy management system


Abstract:

Effective home energy management requires data on the current power consumption of devices in the home. Individually monitoring every appliance is costly and inconvenient...Show More

Abstract:

Effective home energy management requires data on the current power consumption of devices in the home. Individually monitoring every appliance is costly and inconvenient. Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) promises to provide individual electrical load information from aggregate power measurements. Application of NILM in residential settings has been constrained by the data provided by utility billing smart meters. Current utility billing smart meters do not deliver data that supports quantifying the harmonic content in the 60 Hz waveforms. Research in NILM has a critical need for a low-cost sensor system to collect energy data with fast sampling and significant precision to demonstrate actual data requirements. Implementation of cost-effective NILM in a residential consumer context requires real-time processing of this data to identify individual loads. This paper describes a system providing a powerful and flexible platform, supporting user configuration of sampling rates and amplitude resolution up to 65 kHz and up to 24 bits respectively. The internal processor is also capable of running NILM algorithms in real time on the sampled measurements. Using this prototype, real time load identification can be provided to the consumer for control, visualization, feedback, and demand response implications.
Date of Conference: 07-11 January 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 14 March 2016
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 2158-4001
Conference Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA

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