A Short Review of the Main Approaches of Electrical Energy Consumption Disaggregation

Energy consumption monitoring systems are evolving towards a perspective of Reducing energy consumption within buildings. This energy saving approach is based on the capabilities of these systems to recognize electrical appliances and other electrical devices plugged into the home through their electrical consumption and the automatic obtaining of energy costs in each system. Use to obtain a lower cost. These systems are formed mainly by subsystems; A subsystem for the acquisition, monitoring and tracking of consumption data and a second search engine subsystem to obtain the price of power automatically independent of the tariff and the company. However, it is a main objective to detect that the appliance is consuming so that the system by acquiring this data can perform patterns of user behaviour and recommend to users when using household appliance in order to obtain an economic savings. Therefore, in this work a review of the main methods of disaggregation of electricity consumption through its individual loads has been carried out.This work has been supported by the European Commission H2020 MSCA-RISE-2014: Marie Sklodowska-Curie project DREAM-GO Enabling Demand Response for short and real-time Efficient And Market Based Smart Grid Operation - An intelligent and real-time simulation approach ref 641794. The research of Alfonso González-Briones has been co-financed by the European Social Fund (Operational Programme 2014-2020 for Castilla y León, EDU/128/2015 BOCYL)