Organizing, Visualizing and Understanding Households Electricity Consumption Data through Clustering Analysis.

We propose a cluster analysis approach for organizing, visualizing and understanding households’ electricity consumption data. We initially partition the consumption data into a number of clusters with similar daily electricity consumption profiles. The centroids of each cluster can be seen as representative signatures of a household’s electricity consumption behaviors. We evaluate the proposed approach by conducting a number of experiments on electricity consumption data of ten selected households. Our results show that the approach is suitable for data analysis, understanding and creating electricity consumption behavior models