NILM2016
NILM (or disaggregation) is a growing research field which began in 1985 with a report written by George W. Hart (MIT) for Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). NILM is used to discern what electrical loads (e.g., appliances) are running within a home/building using only the aggregate power meter. Why? To help occupants understand how they and their appliance use energy so that they could conserve to either save money, the environment, or both.
The mission of this workshop is to create a forum that can unite all the researchers, practitioners, and students that are working on the topic of energy disaggregation. The main objective of this event is to review the main types of approaches that have been explored to date to solve the problem of electricity disaggregation, and to then discuss possible paths forward knowing what has been tried and what has yet to be experimented. We also intend to have a group discussion about possible solutions to the growing need for standardized datasets and performance metrics that can allow the field to move forward, as well as possible areas of collaboration among different research groups.
We encourage authors to submit papers on research that is ongoing or contains recent results: as the workshop will only include online proceedings, submission to the workshop will not prevent any material from being submitted later to a journal or conference. Authors of original paper submissions may be invited to submit their paper to a Special Issue of the journal Energy and Buildings for further consideration. There will be an award given for best paper. Finally, you do not have to submit a paper to attend the workshop — just come and network with others! We are looking forward to welcoming you to NILM 2016 in Vancouver.
Stephen Makonin
Workshop General Chair
smakonin@sfu.ca
COMMITTEE
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General Chair
Stephen Makonin, Simon Fraser University
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Technical Program Chair
Oliver Parson, British Gas Connected Home
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Registration Chair
Bradley Ellert, Simon Fraser University
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Local Welcoming Chair
Andrew Berrisford, BC Hydro
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Steering Committee
Mario Berges, Carnegie Mellon University
J. Zico Kolter, Carnegie Mellon University
Oliver Parson, British Gas Connected Home
Stephen Makonin, Simon Fraser University
Jack Kelly, Imperial College
Nipun Batra, IIIT Delhi -
Technical Program Committee
Sean Barker, Bowdoin College
Md. Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto, Simon Fraser University
Nipun Batra, IIIT Delhi
Mario Berges, Carnegie Mellon University
Kyle Bradbury, Duke University
Hsueh-Hsien Chang, Jin-Wen University of Science and Technology
Bradley Ellert, Simon Fraser University
Jingkun Gao, Carnegie Mellon University
Manoj Gulati, IIIT Delhi
Sidhant Gupta, Microsoft Research
Zhenyu Guo, Sengled
Milan Jain, IIIT Delhi
Jack Kelly, Imperial College
Alex Leontitsis, British Gas Connected Home
Jing Liao, University of Strathclyde
Wenpeng Luan, China EPRI
Lucas Pereira, Madeira-ITI
Alex Rogers, University of Oxford
Karim Said Barsim, Universitat Stuttgart
Shima Shojae, University of British Columbia
Guoming Tang, University of Victoria
Akshay Uttama Nambi, TUDelft
Mingjun Zhong, University of Edinburgh
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission Due (view call): March 15
- Notification of Acceptance: April 10
- Final Paper Due: April 24
- Registration Deadline: May 1
- Workshop Held On: May 14-15
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
GENERAL CHAIR
PROGRAM & PROCEEDINGS
| Time | Topic | Presentation Details |
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| Sat, May 14 9:00 am | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 9:40 am | Day 1 Welcome Address by Stephen Makonin (Simon Fraser University) & Andrew Berrisford (BC Hydro) | |
| 10:00 am | Energy Analytics | NILM: Vehicle or Destination? by Bruce Townson (Ecotagious) |
| Crowdsourcing Appliance Labels for Energy Disaggregation by Vivek Garud (Bidgely ) | ||
| Topic Discussion chaired by Mario Berges (Carnegie Mellon University) — incl. short health break | ||
| 11:00 am | Keynote: Personal Energy Analytics: Successes, failures and challenges by Lyn Bartram (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 12:00 noon | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 pm | Value Proposition | Does disaggregated electricity feedback reduce domestic electricity consumption? A systematic review of the literature by Jack Kelly, William Knottenbelt (Imperial College) |
| Exploring The Value of Energy Disaggregation Through Actionable Feedback by Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh (IIIT Delhi); Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia) | ||
| A Test of Commercially Available Products for Estimating End Uses from Smart Meter Data v by M. Baker, G. Hicks, S. Rodriguez (SBW Consulting); M. Fuller (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) | ||
| Topic Discussion chaired by Manoj Gulati (IIIT Delhi) — incl. short health break | ||
| 2:20 pm | Industry & Power Utilities | Q&A Discussion Panel of Invited Panelists hosted by Claude Godin (DNV-GL ) Panel Members: Chris Homes (EPRI), Wenpeng Luan (China EPRI), Bill Bush (Enetics), Katie Russell (ONZO) |
| 3:20 pm | Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 3:40 pm | Applications | How well can HMM model load signals by Lukas Mauch, Karim Said Barsim, Bin Yang (University of Stuttgart) |
| Creating a Detailed Energy Breakdown from just the Monthly Electricity Bill by Nipun Batra, Amarjeet Singh (IIIT Delhi); Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia) | ||
| Disaggregation of space heating and water heating from real life 10-minute load curves by Romain Benassi (HomePulse ) | ||
| Neural Network Ensembles to Real-time Identification of Plug-level Appliance Measurements by Karim Said Barsim, Lukas Mauch, Bin Yang (University of Stuttgart) | ||
| Topic Discussion chaired by Kyle Bradbury (Duke University) — incl. short health break | ||
| 5:20 pm | Poster Celebration | Poster Lightning Talks chaired by Oliver Parson (British Gas Connected Home) |
Poster Session Walkabout (posters will be displayed outside the theatre in IRMACS)
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| 6:30 pm | Workshop Social & Reception (everyone walks to Big Smoke Burger) | |
| Time | Topic | Presentation Details |
| Sun, May 15 9:00 am | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 9:40 am | Day 2 Welcome Address by Stephen Makonin (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 10:00 am | Data & Datasets | Pecan Street's Dataport by Grant Fisher (Pecan Street ) |
| Handling Imperfections in Energy Disaggregation by Angshul Majumdar, Megha Gupta, Manoj Gulati (IIIT Delhi) | ||
| Topic Discussion chaired by Nipun Batra (IIIT Delhi) — incl. short health break | ||
| 11:00 am | Keynote: Life After NILM by George W. Hart (Stony Brook University) | |
| 12:00 noon | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 pm | Meters & Hardware | The RIVA Meter and Platform by Robert Sonderegger (Itron ) |
| The Sense energy monitor: real-time load disaggregation using signals with high time by Etienne Barnard (Sense ) | ||
| Topic Discussion chaired by Jack Kelly (Imperial College) — incl. short health break | ||
| 2:00 pm | Algorithms, Part 1 | The Neural Energy Decoder: Energy Disaggregation by Combining Binary Subcomponents by Henning Lange, Mario Berges (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Identification with the Ensemble of Classifiers by Piotr Bilski, Wieslaw Winiecki (Warsaw University of Technology) | ||
| A Fully Unsupervised Appliance Modelling Framework for NILM by Bo Liu, Yixin Yu (Tianjin University); Wenpeng Luan (China EPRI) | ||
| 3:00 pm | Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break | |
| 3:20 pm | Algorithms, Part 2 | An Active Learning Framework for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring by Xin Jin (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) |
| Detecting IT and Lighting loads using Common
Mode Conducted EMI Signals best paper by Manoj Gulati, Shobha Sundar Ram, Angshul Majumdar, Amarjeet Singh (IIIT Delhi) | ||
| Greedy Deep Disaggregating Sparse Coding by Shikha Singh, Manoj Gulati, Angshul Majumdar (IIIT Delhi) | ||
| Topic Discussion (Parts 1 & 2) chaired by Alex Leontitsis (British Gas Connected Home) & Guoming Tang (University of Victoria) | ||
| 4:40 pm | Closing & Best Paper Award by Stephen Makonin — Workshop Officially Ends at 5:00pm | |
LOCATION
The NILM 2016 will be help at the beautiful SFU Burnaby Mountain Campus (the only mountain top campus in North America) at the IRMACS Centre which is located at the top level of the Applied Sciences Building, room ASB 10900 (see on-campus directions and campus map). All prices below are in CAD$.
Transit: This map shows the transit route from the airport (YVR) to SFU which costs around $8 one way.
Taxi Service & Car Rental: An approximate 45-minute ride from YVR to SFU which can cost around $65 one way (more info). Car rental services are also available at YVR.
Accommodations: While attending the workshop you can stay on-campus for $39 per night. Reserve your room online at SFU Guest Accommodations under the NILM 2016 booking option.
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