Without an appropriate monitoring system, the condition/state of electrical appliances/devices in operation in households cannot be fully assessed, resulting in uncontrolled expenses. The purpose of load monitoring techniques is to save electricity c...
Due to the introduction of highly automated vehicles and systems, the tasks of operators (drivers, pilots, air traffic controllers, production process managers) are in transition from “active control” to “passive monitoring” a...
Evaluations of nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) algorithms and technologies have mostly occurred in constrained, artificial environments. However, few field evaluations of NILM products have taken place in actual buildings under normal operating c...
The smart grid initiative has encouraged utility companies worldwide to roll-out new and smarter versions of energy meters. Before an extensive roll-out, which is both labor-intensive and incurs high capital costs, consumers need to be incentivised t...
Appliance Load Monitoring (ALM) is essential for energy management solutions, allowing them to obtain appliance-specific energy consumption statistics that can further be used to devise load scheduling strategies for optimal energy utilization. Fine-...
Rail transport has unmistakable sustainable (environmental and economic) advantages in goods transportation on a massive scale. Goods loading constitutes an important segment of goods transportation by rail. Incorrect loading can be a serious threat...
For many years, energy monitoring at the most disaggregate level has been mainly sought through the idea of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM). Developing a practical application of this concept in the residential sector can be impeded by the techn...
Commercial load is an essential demand-side resource. Monitoring commercial loads helps not only commercial customers understand their energy usage to improve energy efficiency but also helps electric utilities develop demand-side management strategi...
A NILM dataset is a valuable tool in the development of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring techniques, as it provides a means of evaluation of novel techniques and algorithms, as well as for benchmarking. The figure of merit of a NILM dataset includes cha...
The wire tightener is a critical tool in the construction and maintenance of power lines. Failure to detect tension overload in a timely manner may lead to plastic deformation or even breakage of the tool, potentially causing serious safety accidents...
Demand response services and energy communities are set to be vital in bringing citizens to the core of the energy transition. The success of load flexibility integration in the electricity market, provided by demand response services, will depend on...
The suspended sediment (SS) load provides valuable insights into soil loss magnitude, requiring comprehensive monitoring of streamflow (Q) and SS concentrations (SSC) across various hydrological conditions. The primary aim of this paper was to quanti...
Load monitoring systems make it possible to obtain information on the status of the various loads powered by an electrical system. The term “electrical load” indicates any device or circuit that absorbs energy from the system to which it is connected...
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has emerged as a pivotal technology in energy management applications by enabling precise monitoring of individual appliance energy consumption without the requirements of intrusive sensors or smart meters. In thi...
Non-intrusive load monitoring takes place in residential and industrial contexts to disaggregate and identify loads connected to a distribution grid. This work studies the applicability and effectiveness for AC railways, considering the highly dynami...
The aim of operational load monitoring is to make predictions about the remaining usability time of structures, which is extremely useful in aerospace industry where in-service life of aircraft structural components can be maximized, taking into acco...
At construction sites, temporary facilities have caused continuous collapse accidents, causing damage to human life. If the concrete placing height is high and the worker is pushed into one place at the time of placing, the working load may be exceed...
The emergence of smart sensors has had a significant impact on the utility industry. In particular, it has made the planning and implementation of demand-side management (DSM) programmes easier. Nevertheless, for various reasons, some users may not i...
State-of-the-art smart cities have been calling for economic but efficient energy management over a large-scale network, especially for the electric power system. It is a critical issue to monitor, analyze, and control electric loads of all users in...
The aircraft landing gear system is vital in ensuring the aircraft’s functional completeness and operational safety. The mechanical structures of the landing gear must withstand significant operational forces, including repeated high-intensity...
Athlete monitoring enables sports science practitioners to collect information to determine how athletes respond to training loads (TL) and the demands of competition. To date, recommendations for females are often adapted from their male counterpart...
Monitoring electricity energy usage can help to reduce power consumption considerably. Among load monitoring techniques, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) provides a cost-efficient solution to identify individual load consumption details from the...
Ballistocardiographs (BCGs), which record the mechanical activity of the heart, have been a subject of interest for several years because of their advantages in providing unobtrusive physiological measurements. BCGs could also be useful for monitorin...
Nonintrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) models often suffer from significant performance degradation when deployed across different households and datasets, primarily because of distribution discrepancies. To address this challenge, this study proposes a...
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is an effective way to achieve demand-side measurement and energy efficiency optimization. This paper studies a method of non-intrusive on-line load monitoring under a high-frequency mode of electric data acquisit...
Rock bolts ensure structural stability for tunnels and many other underground structures. The pre-load on a rock bolt plays an important role in the structural reinforcement and it is vital to monitor the pre-load status of rock bolts. In this paper,...
Much of today’s power grid was designed and built using technologies and organizational principles developed decades ago. The lack of energy resources and classic power networks are the main causes of the development of the smart grid to efficiently...
Using a single-point sensor, non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) discerns the individual electrical appliances of a residential or commercial building by disaggregating the accumulated energy consumption data without accessing to the individual comp...
Non-invasive load monitoring (NILM) deduces changes in energy consumption patterns and operational statuses of electrical equipment from power signals in the feed line. With the emergence of fine-grained power load distribution, the importance of uti...
A crucial step in nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) is feature extraction, which consists of signal processing techniques to extract features from voltage and current signals. This paper presents a new time-frequency feature based on Stockwell tran...
In order to reduce the electricity consumption in our homes, a first step is to make the user aware of it. Raising such awareness, however, demands to pinpoint users of specific appliances that unnecessarily consume electricity. A retrofittable and s...
Background and Objectives: Fracture healing is currently assessed through qualitative evaluation of radiographic images, which is highly subjective in nature. Radiographs can only provide snapshots in time, which are limited due to logistics and radi...
Operational Load Monitoring consists of the real-time reading and recording of the number and level of strains and stresses during load cycles withstood by a structure in its normal operating environment, in order to make more reliable predictions ab...
To cope with the increasing global demand of energy and significant energy wastage caused by the use of different home appliances, smart load monitoring is considered a promising solution to promote proper activation and scheduling of devices and red...
The ageing of the population, and their increasing wish of living independently, are motivating the development of welfare and healthcare models. Existing approaches based on the direct heath-monitoring using body sensor networks (BSN) are precise an...
The increasing need for efficient energy consumption monitoring, driven by economic and environmental concerns, has made Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) a cost-effective alternative to traditional measurement methods. Despite its progress since...
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an effective energy consumption analysis technology, which just requires voltage and current signals on the user bus. This non-invasive monitoring approach can clarify the working state of multiple loads in the...
In a real interactive service system, a smart meter can only read the total amount of energy consumption rather than analyze the internal load components for users. Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM), as a vital part of smart power utilization techn...
Operational loads of an aircraft are the prerequisite for assessing its safety or fatigue life. Traditionally, numerous strain gauge sensors are installed to monitor the operational loads, which inevitably increase the weight and system complexity of...
With the widespread use of electric vehicles (EVs), the charging behavior of these resources has brought a large amount of load growth to the grid, leading to a series of problems such as increased peak valley load difference and line flow violation....
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In wireless networks, low-power Zigbee is an excellent network solution for wireless medical monitoring systems. Medical monitoring generally involves transmission of a large amount of data and easily causes bottleneck problems. Although Zigbee’s AOD...
The safety operation of dams after extreme load is an important frontier research topic in the field of dam engineering. The dam health monitoring provides a reliable data basis for a safety evaluation after extreme loads. This study proposes a novel...
Distribution transformers are an integral part of the power distribution system network and emerging smart grids. With the increasing dynamic service requirements of consumers, there is a higher likelihood of transformer failures due to overloading,...
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) describes the process of inferring the consumption pattern of appliances by only having access to the aggregated household signal. Sequence-to-sequence deep learning models have been firmly established as state-of...
To ensure reliable, efficient and sustainable operation of modern power networks, accurate load forecasting is an important task in system planning and control. It is also a crucial task for the efficient operation of smart grids to maintain a balanc...
Recently, various strategies for energy management have been proposed to improve energy efficiency in smart grids. One key aspect of this is the use of microgrids. To effectively manage energy in a residential microgrid, advanced computational tools...
Sea ice and the resulting loads are major safety concerns for vessels operating in ice-covered regions. This study presents a tailored sea ice and local ice load monitoring system specifically designed for polar cargo vessels. The system employs ship...
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) can obtain fine-grained electricity consumption information of each appliance by analyzing the voltage and current data measured at a single point on the bus, which is of great significance for promoting and impro...
The paper presents a proof of concept of a new methodology for the load estimation in beam-like structures under complex loading. The paper customizes a Kalman Filter (KF) based estimation technique which is shown to be robust to the presence of meas...
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a process of determining the operating states and the energy consumption of single electric devices using a single energy meter providing aggregate load measurements. Due to the large spread of power electronic...
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