In recent years, the development of smart sustainable cities has become the primary focus
among urban planners and policy makers to make responsible use of resources, conserve …

The current power systems are undergoing a rapid transition towards their more active,
flexible, and intelligent counterpart smart grid, which brings about tremendous challenges in …

Understanding how appliances in a house consume power is important when making
intelligent and informed decisions about conserving energy. Appliances can turn ON and …

Appliance Load Monitoring (ALM) is essential for energy management solutions, allowing
them to obtain appliance-specific energy consumption statistics that can further be used to …

Appliance energy consumption tracking in a building is one of the vital enablers of energy
and cost saving. An economical and viable solution would be to estimate individual …

Demand-side management technology is a key element of the proposed smart grid, which
will help utilities make more efficient use of their generation assets by reducing consumers' …

This paper considers additive factorial hidden Markov models, an extension to HMMs where
the state factors into multiple independent chains, and the output is an additive function of all …

This paper aims to address two timely energy problems. First, significant low-cost energy
reductions can be made in the residential and commercial sectors, but these savings have …

Consumer systems for home energy management can provide significant energy saving.
Such systems may be based on nonintrusive appliance load monitoring (NIALM), in which …

Nowadays, the advancement of non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is hastened by the
everincreasing requirements for smart power utilization and demand side management …