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Journal Articles Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) Year : 2024

ADF & TransApp: A Transformer-Based Framework for Appliance Detection Using Smart Meter Consumption Series

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Over the past decade, millions of smart meters have been installed by electricity suppliers worldwide, allowing them to collect a large amount of electricity consumption data, albeit sampled at a low frequency (one point every 30min). One of the important challenges these suppliers face is how to utilize these data to detect the presence/absence of different appliances in the customers' households. This valuable information can help them provide personalized offers and recommendations to help customers towards the energy transition. Appliance detection can be cast as a time series classification problem. However, the large amount of data combined with the long and variable length of the consumption series pose challenges when training a classifier. In this paper, we propose ADF, a framework that uses subsequences of a client consumption series to detect the presence/absence of appliances. We also introduce TransApp, a Transformer-based time series classifier that is first pretrained in a self-supervised way to enhance its performance on appliance detection tasks. We test our approach on two real datasets, including a publicly available one. The experimental results with two large real datasets show that the proposed approach outperforms current solutions, including state-of-the-art time series classifiers applied to appliance detection.
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hal-04705732 , version 1 (23-09-2024)

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Adrien Petralia, Philippe Charpentier, Themis Palpanas. ADF & TransApp: A Transformer-Based Framework for Appliance Detection Using Smart Meter Consumption Series. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2024, 17 (3), pp.553-562. ⟨10.14778/3632093.3632115⟩. ⟨hal-04705732⟩
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