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Load Identification for Smart Grid Management

Abstract:

Load disaggregation has been the subject of extensive research in literature. Thanks to the wide availability of microcontrollers and circuit devices for communications, the use of extra hardware for intrusive load identification is not prohibitively expensive. This paper discusses methods for disaggregation, "quasi-intrusive", hybrid, and non intrusive load monitoring. The "quasi-intrusive" is described as a hardware for intrusive load identification using power line communications and an ID-tag from a hardware identification chip. The hardware identification chip allows assigning load profiles to a unique device, independently of the load connection point in the local grid. This identification is similar to the media Access Control (MAC) address used in the MAC Layer on the TCP/IP network Model. The use of this identification module can be replaced or shared with a real internet address, for those loads with internet of things (IoT) capabilities. The hybrid proposal, developed in this work, aims at reducing the computational burden when the on/off status of some loads is known.