NILM Algorithms General Comparison and Test of Adaptability

thumbnail

Student

Pasquet, Arthur

Document type

Master thesis

Date

2020

rights

Open AccessOpen Access

Publisher

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya



Abstract

NILM field is a hot spot in university and companies research due to the great advantages it provides and its importance to reduce energy consumption within the households particularly. This thesis allows a comparison between Benchmark and State-of-Art algorithms over various datasets from different domains and measured by 12 metrics. It shows that the efficiency of an algorithm depends very much on the metric used to measure it. As a result, it is observed that algorithms using Deep Learning are generally superior to the others, however it is not easy to rank them. The Transfer Learning tried between European datasets underlines an encouraging lead, but on the contrary between American dataset it seems unproductive. This thesis carries out also the first multi-source Transfer Learning in the NILM field, concluding the need of further experimentation to prove its relevancy
user

Participating teacher

Files