Non–Intrusive Appliance Load Disaggregation in Smart Homes Using Hybrid Constrained Particle Swarm Optimization and Factorial Hidden Markov Model

Dejamkhooy, Abdolmajid; Ahmadpour, Ali; Pourjafar, Saeed

doi:10.22109/jemt.2019.159946.1143

Non–Intrusive Appliance Load Disaggregation in Smart Homes Using Hybrid Constrained Particle Swarm Optimization and Factorial Hidden Markov Model

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Abdolmajid Dejamkhooy

Ali Ahmadpour

Saeed Pourjafar

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

10.22109/jemt.2019.159946.1143

Abstract

Nowadays, the prediction of the load performances in the smart systems is necessary to generate the minimum energy. In a smart home, there are various appliances that each of them has different behavior. These differences defined as appliance states. In this paper, an effective hybrid method is proposed for load disaggregation of appliances. Factorial Hidden Markov Model (FHMM) with high accuracy is used for appliances states modeling. In this model, the present state of each appliance is available, and then the defined allowable states for the next instant are provided. For optimal estimation of states, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is employed. Furthermore, three constraints are applied in PSO to modify the states matrix; first, every appliance must has one state at any instant; second, considering of the appliances that always is active; and last, using of FHMM for load models production. In the last constraint, by using FHMM, counts of the estimated databases as well as the calculation time are remarkably reduced. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed method, speed and accuracy of the responses for practical data of six smart homes are compared with other methods.

Keywords

Non–Intrusive Appliance Load Disaggregation

Smart Home

Swarm Particle Optimization

Factorial Hidden Markov Model

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