Deep Sparse Coding for Non–Intrusive Load Monitoring

Energy disaggregation is the task of segregating the aggregate energy of the entire building (as logged by the smart-meter) into the energy consumed by individual appliances. This is a single channel (the only channel being the smart-meter) blind source (different electrical appliances) separation problem. The traditional way to address this is via stochastic finite state machines (e.g., factorial hidden Markov model). In recent times,...