Dissecting the Problem of Individual Home Power Consumption Prediction using Machine Learning

Enrico Casella, Eleanor Sudduth, Simone Silvestri

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Abstract

The growth and widespread diffusion of Internet-of-Things devices and advanced metering infrastructure allows to closely monitor appliances in a user home. Although only few works have focused on the issue of individual home power consumption predictions, recent efforts have unveiled the complexity of this task. As opposed to building-level power predictions, the finer granularity of single home predictions is characterized by the high impact that individual user actions have on the power consumption. As a matter of fact, the current state of the art shows inadequate prediction performance. In this work, we investigate the issue of single home power prediction by analyzing a recent dataset of real power consumption data. We carry out a profound analysis of several processing parameters and environmental parameters that make this task so challenging, thus providing meaningful insights that can guide future research on individual home power consumption predictions. Results show an overall low daily error, and very accurate hourly predictions when less variable usage patterns occur.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2022
Pages156-158
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781665481526
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2022 - Espoo, Finland
Duration: Jun 20 2022Jun 24 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2022

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2022
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityEspoo
Period6/20/226/24/22

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© 2022 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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