Specific and generic unsupervised algorithms for NILM applications

In a domestic context, NILM applications (Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring) allow users to know their electric consumption per appliance without having to install sensors for each appliance in their house. The aim of this paper is to present an unsupervised approach of the disaggregation problem. This paper follows 3 papers on the same topic. Each of these papers corresponds to a specific building block of the approach described in this paper. This paper aims at giving a top view of our general approach and draws the links between our 3 previous papers.