A non-intrusive load monitoring approach for very short-term power predictions in commercial buildings

Karoline Brucke, Stefan Arens, Jan-Simon Telle, Thomas Steens, Benedikt Hanke, Karsten von Maydell and Carsten Agert

Applied Energy, 2021, vol. 292, issue C, No S0306261921003494

Abstract: In this study, a new algorithm is developed to extract device profiles in a fully unsupervised manner from three-phases reactive and active aggregate power measurements. The extracted device profiles are then applied to disaggregate the aggregate power measurements by means of particle swarm optimization. Then, a new approach to very short-term power predictions is presented, which makes use of the disaggregation data. For this purpose, a state change forecast is carried out for each device by an artificial neural network and subsequently converted into a power prediction by reconstructing the power profile with respect to the state changes and device profiles. The forecast horizon is 15 min. In order to demonstrate the developed approaches, three-phase reactive and active aggregate power measurements of a multi-tenant commercial building are employed as a case study. The granularity of the data used is 1 s. In total, 52 device profiles are extracted from the aggregate power data. The disaggregation exhibited a highly accurate reconstruction of the measured power with an energy percentage error of approximately 1 %. The indirect power prediction method developed is then applied to the measured power data and outperforms the two persistence forecasts, as well as an artificial neural network designed for 24h-ahead power predictions working in the power domain.

Keywords: Non-intrusive load monitoring; Energy disaggregation; Power prediction; Unsupervised learning; Neural networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116860

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