Submeter based Training of Multi-class Support Vector Machines for Appliance Recognition in Home Electricity Consumption Data

Marco Mittelsdorf, Andreas Hüwel, Thole Klingenberg, Michael Sonnenschein

2013

Abstract

In this paper we employ smart meter and support vector machines (SVM) for the problem of recognizing household appliances’ load patterns in measured load time series, which is an important step for various applications in energy consulting, process recognition or health care applications. We present an automated data collection and preprocessing approach that intrinsically avoids many privacy (and security) issues by keeping the whole process local to the household. In the experimental part we investigate multi-class SVMs in the problem domain of automatically recognizing appliances in load profiles of smart meters. For the learning phase, we use low intrusive submeters to automatically and locally generate household specific test data for the supervised training and validation of the SVMs. We analyze classifiers w.r.t. various training sets and feature spaces. Comparing data from household simulator and real household data, we find that excellent recognition rates can be achieved even with low resolution data and rather unsophisticated feature space.

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Mittelsdorf M., Hüwel A., Klingenberg T. and Sonnenschein M. (2013). Submeter based Training of Multi-class Support Vector Machines for Appliance Recognition in Home Electricity Consumption Data . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-8565-55-6, pages 151-158. DOI: 10.5220/0004380001510158


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@conference{smartgreens13,
author={Marco Mittelsdorf and Andreas Hüwel and Thole Klingenberg and Michael Sonnenschein},
title={Submeter based Training of Multi-class Support Vector Machines for Appliance Recognition in Home Electricity Consumption Data},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2013},
pages={151-158},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004380001510158},
isbn={978-989-8565-55-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Submeter based Training of Multi-class Support Vector Machines for Appliance Recognition in Home Electricity Consumption Data
SN - 978-989-8565-55-6
AU - Mittelsdorf M.
AU - Hüwel A.
AU - Klingenberg T.
AU - Sonnenschein M.
PY - 2013
SP - 151
EP - 158
DO - 10.5220/0004380001510158