Quantification of Disaggregation Difficulty With Respect to the Number of Smart Meters

A promising approach toward efficient energy management is non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), that is to extract the consumption of appliances by analyzing the aggregated consumption signal. The large number of appliances and the presence of appliances with close consumption values are known to limit the performance of event-based NILM methods. To tackle these challenges, one could enhance the ...