An End-Cloud Collaborated Framework for Transferable Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

摘要

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) benefits both end users and utilities by perceiving the operation of individual appliances within a household merely based on analytical results of aggregated electrical data. Driven by diverse demands, a basic and practical NILM solution is on call to enable various downstream applications and strengthen the transfer ability to adapt to different real scenarios. Accordingly, an end-cloud collaborated framework for transferable NILM is proposed in this work. First, an end-to-end model with a multi-scale convolutional architecture is designed for identifying the activation of a specified target appliance using current waveform, which can be independently deployed according to actual needs. Furthermore, a transfer learning framework of NILM is established. Primarily, the model pretrained on the cloud is continuously fine tuned on the terminal side in a pseudo-supervised manner, where the group-weighted cross entropy (GWCE) is defined as the loss function. According to the experimental results based on two public datasets, the proposed model structure possesses prominent generalization ability across different appliances and scenarios, and the transfer learning procedure with GWCE can enhance the identification ability of the pretrained model, which is especially effective for unfamiliar scenarios. Provided with a NILM device eligible for terminal-side intelligence, our work is applicable with great prospects in practice.

出版物
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
陈昶宇
陈昶宇
硕士研究生
耿光超
耿光超
副教授 | 博士生导师

耿光超,工学博士,浙江大学电气工程学院副教授、博士生导师,电机工程学系副主任,电力系统自动化所副所长,电气工程学院特聘助理,IEEE高级会员。

于鹤洋
于鹤洋
博士研究生

于鹤洋,博士研究生在读,研究方向为电力系统灵活资源的深度感知和聚合调控、人工智能与物联网在电力系统中的应用。

江全元
江全元
教授 | 博士生导师

江全元,博士、浙江大学电气工程学院教授,博士生导师,浙江省重点实验室(海洋可再生能源电气装备与系统技术研究实验室)副主任,中国电工技术学会电力系统控制与保护专业委员会委员。