A New Method for Load Identification of Nonintrusive Energy Management System in Smart Home

In response to the governmental policy of saving energy sources and reducing CO₂, and carry out the resident quality of local; this paper proposes a new method for a non-intrusive energy management (NIEM) system in smart home to implement the load identification of electric equipments and establish the electric demand management. Non-intrusive energy management techniques were often based on power signatures in the past, these techniques are necessary to be improved for the results of reliability and accuracy of recognition. By using neural network (NN) in combination with genetic programming (GP) and turn-on transient energy analysis, this study attempts to identify load demands and improve recognition accuracy of non-intrusive energy-managing results. The turn-on transient energy signature can improve the efficiency of load identification and computational time under multiple operations.