A novel approach based on finite-state machines with fuzzy transitions for nonintrusive home appliance monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1185-1197

  Ducange, Pietro ^a   Marcelloni, Francesco ^a   Antonelli, Michela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Finite state machines (FSMs); fuzzy models; fuzzy transitions; load disaggregation; nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM); Smart metering

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; SMART METERS;

DISAGGREGATION; FINITE-STATE; FUZZY MODELS; FUZZY TRANSITION; NONINTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING; SMART METERING;

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES;

EID: 84900835927     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2014.2304781     Document Type: Article

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