Model for Identification of Electrical Appliance and Determination of Patterns Using High-Resolution Wireless Sensor NETWORK for the Efficient Home Energy Consumption Based on Deep Learning

Fernando Ulloa-Vásquez, Victor Heredia-Figueroa, Cristóbal Espinoza-Iriarte, José Tobar-Ríos, Fernanda Aguayo-Reyes, Dante Carrizo, Luis García-Santander

The growing demand for electricity and the constant increase in electricity rates have intensified the interest of residential and non-residential energy consumers to reduce their energy consumption. The introduction of non-conventional renewable energies (photovoltaic and wind, in the residential case) demands new proposals to obtain a home energy management system (HEMS), which allows reducing the use of electrical energy. This article incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to demand response, allowing control, switching, turning on and off of appliances, modifying and reducing consumption, and achieving improvements in the quality of life in the home. In addition, an architecture based on a smart socket and an artificial intelligence model that recognizes the consumption of electrical appliances in high resolution (sampling every 10 s) is proposed. The system uses the Wi-Fi communication protocol, ensuring that the smart sockets wirelessly provide the data obtained to the public cloud. The use of Deep Learning allows us to obtain a central control model of the home, which, when interconnected to the smart electrical distribution networks of companies, could generate a positive impact on the environmental effects and CO2 reduction.