Electricity theft detection in AMI using customers' consumption patterns

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 216-226

  Jokar, Paria ^a   Arianpoo, Nasim ^a   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI); Energy theft; Smart grid

Indexed keywords

CRIME; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SALES;

ANOMALY DETECTOR; CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING; CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; DEMAND RESPONSE; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; ELECTRICITY THEFT DETECTION; HIGH PROBABILITY; METERING SYSTEMS;

ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84960349614     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2015.2425222     Document Type: Article

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