Revealing Household Characteristics from Electricity Meter Data with Grade Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms
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Department of Informatics, Faculty of Applied Informatics and Mathematics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW, Warsaw 02-776, Poland
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Information Systems and Energy Efficient Systems Group, Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences, University of Bamberg, Bamberg 96047, Germany
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Appl. Sci. 2018, 8(9), 1654; https://doi.org/10.3390/app8091654
Received: 22 August 2018 / Revised: 9 September 2018 / Accepted: 12 September 2018 / Published: 14 September 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Energy Management of Electrical Power Systems)
In this article, the Grade Correspondence Analysis (GCA) with posterior clustering and visualization is introduced and applied to extract important features to reveal households’ characteristics based on electricity usage data. The main goal of the analysis is to automatically extract, in a non-intrusive way, number of socio-economic household properties including family type, age of inhabitants, employment type, house type, and number of bedrooms. The knowledge of specific properties enables energy utilities to develop targeted energy conservation tariffs and to assure balanced operation management. In particular, classification of the households based on the electricity usage delivers value added information to allow accurate demand planning with the goal to enhance the overall efficiency of the network. The approach was evaluated by analyzing smart meter data collected from 4182 households in Ireland over a period of 1.5 years. The analysis outcome shows that revealing characteristics from smart meter data is feasible, and the proposed machine learning methods were yielding for an accuracy of approx. 90% and Area Under Receiver Operating Curve (AUC) of 0.82.
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Gajowniczek, K.; Ząbkowski, T.; Sodenkamp, M. Revealing Household Characteristics from Electricity Meter Data with Grade Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms. Appl. Sci. 2018, 8, 1654. https://doi.org/10.3390/app8091654
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Gajowniczek K, Ząbkowski T, Sodenkamp M. Revealing Household Characteristics from Electricity Meter Data with Grade Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms. Applied Sciences. 2018; 8(9):1654. https://doi.org/10.3390/app8091654
Chicago/Turabian StyleGajowniczek, Krzysztof; Ząbkowski, Tomasz; Sodenkamp, Mariya. 2018. "Revealing Household Characteristics from Electricity Meter Data with Grade Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms" Appl. Sci. 8, no. 9: 1654. https://doi.org/10.3390/app8091654
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