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Real-Time Recognition Non-Intrusive Electrical Appliance Monitoring Algorithm for a Residential Building Energy Management System

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  • Kofi Afrifa Agyeman

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)

  • Sekyung Han

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea)

  • Soohee Han

    (Department of Creative IT Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Korea)

Abstract

The concern of energy price hikes and the impact of climate change because of energy generation and usage forms the basis for residential building energy conservation. Existing energy meters do not provide much information about the energy usage of the individual appliance apart from its power rating. The detection of the appliance energy usage will not only help in energy conservation, but also facilitate the demand response (DR) market participation as well as being one way of building energy conservation. However, energy usage by individual appliance is quite difficult to estimate. This paper proposes a novel approach: an unsupervised disaggregation method, which is a variant of the hidden Markov model (HMM), to detect an appliance and its operation state based on practicable measurable parameters from the household energy meter. Performing experiments in a practical environment validates our proposed method. Our results show that our model can provide appliance detection and power usage information in a non-intrusive manner, which is ideal for enabling power conservation efforts and participation in the demand response market.

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  • Kofi Afrifa Agyeman & Sekyung Han & Soohee Han, 2015. "Real-Time Recognition Non-Intrusive Electrical Appliance Monitoring Algorithm for a Residential Building Energy Management System," Energies, MDPI, vol. 8(9), pages 1-20, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:8:y:2015:i:9:p:9029-9048:d:54794
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