UMBC High Performance Computing Facility
Design and Implementation of a Fine-Grained Appliance
Energy Profiling System for Green Building
Nirmalya Roy, Information Systems
Nilavra Pathak
Md Al Hafiz Khan
Green building applications need efficient and fine-grained determination
of power consumption pattern of a wide variety of consumer-grade appliances
through non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) techniques for an effective
adaptation and percolation of demand response model down to the consumer level appliances.
A key inhibitor to the widespread adoption of such demand response policy
at the consumer grade appliances for intelligent building energy management,
is the inability of smart plug to efficiently determine,
control or infer the power consumption pattern of multiple devices in tandem.
In practice, deploying smart plug based NILM and acquiring the low-level
power measures of a large number of devices is often difficult or
impossible due to the deployment complexity and varying characteristics
of devices and thus must instead be employed at the circuit-level
and inferred through the incorporation of novel usage-based measurement
and probabilistic level-based disaggregation algorithm.
But the challenges in deploying non-intrusive load monitoring algorithm
involve disaggregating individual device?s consumption from the aggregate power measurement,
as well as modeling and incorporating the usage based prediction.
Thus in this project we will focus on advanced machine learning and
data analytics algorithms that capture the measurement based approach
and circuit level NILM with the autonomous profiling and prediction
logic to enable the deployment of flexible and fungible smart plug and
the evolvability of future DR model in green building applications.