Disaggregated Homes

My name is Oliver Parson, and I'm currently employed as a Product Data Science Lead at Octopus. I'm interested in investigating the ways in which machine learning can be used to break down household energy consumption data into individual appliances, also known as Non-intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring (NILM) or energy disaggregation.

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

The academic reality gap

Over the past three years I've read a lot of academic papers on the topic of energy disaggregation. However, the thing that frustrates m...

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Yetu and Verdigris added to list of disaggregation companies

I've recently come across Yetu and Verdigris , two companies aiming to make homes smarter. Yetu aim to wirelessly connect various compo...

Monday, 22 July 2013

Would you replace your fridge for £82 per year?

A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation to my research group giving an overview of my PhD research. I concluded with a slide showing som...

Friday, 12 July 2013

Belkin Energy Disaggregation Competition

I've just come across an energy disaggregation competition set up by Belkin on the Kaggle platform. The competition focuses on the disa...

Saturday, 6 July 2013

Crowdsourcing gas leaks with iSmellGas

I've recently become interested in crowdsourcing platforms, and how such methodologies can be applied to sustainability issues. One thin...

Friday, 5 July 2013

Global map of energy disaggregation research

Keeping track of who is working within a research field is a tough task, especially when it's expanding at the rate of the energy disagg...

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Comparison of public disaggregation data sets

Over the last year I've maintained a list of the public data sets which have been useful in my disaggregation research. However, I'...

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