End of week 8

This week I have concentrated on collecting as much of the NIALM literature as possible. This has not been a trivial task, as few papers appear in the same journal or conference, however I feel I have a good coverage of the field now. I've been reading the most relevant ones and making notes on the techniques they employ. One promising theme rising out of the most recent papers is rising interest in the low granularity data that could be obtained from smart meters.

My plan for next week is to:

1. Fill in my grid comparing techniques used in each paper
2. Do research methodologies tasks (find top people, conferences, journals, reflect on key conference paper's abstract and intro)
3. Use matlab to apply some techniques from the literature