Towards Energy Smart Homes
Algorithms, Technologies, and Applications
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Energy disaggregation, or Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), involves different methods aiming to distinguish the individual contribution of appliances, given the aggregated power signal. In this paper, the...
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This paper introduces a novel approach for occupancy estimation in smart buildings. In particular, we focus on the challenging yet common situation where the amount of training data is small and imbalanced (i....
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Machine learning and data mining techniques have been widely used recently in several smart buildings applications. This is mainly due to the huge amount of data generated continuously by the smart sensors and...
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This chapter describes the state-of-the-art methods to forecast energy consumption and energy services in residential buildings. The review spans from model-based approaches—like building thermal simulation to...