Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitor Published References

The following publications comprise a fairly complete bibliography concerning the NALM, up to 1995, compiled by George W. Hart. I am no longer maintaining it.

Abbott, R.E., S.C. Hadden, and H.M. Kitching, Requirements for an Advanced Utility Load Monitoring System, EPRI Report #CU-6623, Dec., 1989.
Abbott, R.E. and S.C. Hadden, Product Specification for a Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring System, EPRI Report #NI-101, August, 1990.
Almeida, A. and E. Vine, ``Advanced Monitoring Technologies for the Evaluation of Demand-side Management Programs," IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 1994
Andrews, C.J., ``Nonintrusive Monitoring Device for Electric Loads in Commercial Buildings," MIT Laboratory for Electrical and Electromagnetic Systems Technical Report, 1988.
Bons, M., Y. Deville, and D. Schang, ``Nonintrusive Monitoring of Appliance Load Curves," IERE Workshop on `New Issues in Metering and Communication," Clamart France, Sept., 1994.
Brown, D. Identification of Appliances in Residential Electricity Consumption, M.I.T. Dept. EE/CS BS Thesis, January 1983.
Carmichael, L., ``Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring System," EPRI Journal, September 1990, pp. 45-47.
Editor, ``Meter sorts load for appliance use," Electrical World,April 1986, p. 75.
E.P.R.I., ``Non-Intrusive Load Monitor: an unobtrusive system for monitoring household end-use electricity patterns," E.P.R.I. brochure #CU2025.
Hart, G.W., ``Three Approaches to Nonintrusive Monitoring of Continuously-Variable Loads,'' New Issues in End-Use Measurements Workshop, Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 1994.
Hart, G.W., ``Automatic Construction of Finite-State Load Behavior Models," Proceedings of Fourth International Symposium on Distribution Automation and Demand-Side Management, Orlando, Florida, Jan. 18-19, 1994. (Printed without figures, due to editorial error.)
Hart, G.W., ``Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring," Proceedings of the IEEE, December 1992, pp. 1870-1891.
Hart, G.W., Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring with Finite-State Appliance Models, Technical Report submitted to EPRI, January,1992. Includes as its three chapters the drafts of Hart, 1992, Hart and Wang, 1992, and Hart and Bouloutas 1993.
Hart, G.W., ``Advances in Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring," Proceedings of EPRI Information and Automation Conference, 1991.
Hart, G.W., ``Residential Energy Monitoring and Computerized Surveillance Via Utility Power Flows,'' IEEE Technology and Society, pp. 12-16, June 1989.
Hart, G.W., Minimum Information Estimation of Structure, M.I.T. Dept. EE/CS Ph.D. Dissertation, and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Tech. Rept. #1664, June 1987.
Hart, G.W., Identification of Multi-State Appliances, MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems Technical Report TR-87-012, July 1987.
Hart, G.W., A Method for Estimating the Operating History of a Known Appliance Given Slightly Imperfect Data, MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems Technical Report, August 1987.
Hart, G.W., ``Nonintrusive Appliance Load Data Acquisition,'' in Proceedings: International Load Management Conference, Section 40, and Electric Power Research Institute Technical Report #EM-4643, 1985.
Hart, G.W., Prototype Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitor, MIT Energy Laboratory Technical Report, and Electric Power Research Institute Technical Report, September 1985, online copy.
Hart, G.W., The Digital AC Monitor, MIT Energy Laboratory Technical Report, August 1985.
Hart, G.W., Nonintrusive Appliance Load Data Acquisition Method, MIT Energy Laboratory Technical Report, September 1984.
Hart, G. and A. Bouloutas, ``Correcting Dependent Errors in Sequences Generated by Finite-state Processes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 1993, pp. 1249-1260.
Hart, G.W., and J. Wang, ``Determining the Structure of Finite-State Appliances,'' included as Chapter 2 of Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring with Finite-State Appliance Models, 1992.
Hart, G.W., E. Kern, and F. Schweppe, Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitor, U.S. Patent #4,858,141.
Hart, G.W., and E. Kern, Digital AC Monitor, U.S. Patent #4,672,555.
Jones, R.H., and D.P. Flagg, ``Preliminary Qualification Testing of EPRI's Non-Intrusive Load Monitor,'' in Information and Automation Technology Serving Electric Utility Customers in the 1990's: Conference Proceedings, EPRI Report #CU-6400, June 1989.
Kern, E, ``Appliance Signatures," Load Research Symposium, Chicago, June 1983.
Leeb, S.B., A Conjoint Pattern Recognition Approach to Nonintrusive Load Monitoring, MIT Dept. EE/CS Ph.D. Thesis, 1993.
Leeb, S.B., J. Kirtley, G. Verghese, L. Norford, and R. Tabors, ``Nonintrusive Load Monitoring: Status Report," MIT LEES Technical Report #TR92-005, May 1992.
Leeb, S.B., S.R. Shaw, and J. Kirtley, ``Transient Event Detection in Spectral Envelope Estimates for Nonintrusive Load Monitoring," IEEE 95WM042-2PWRD, Winter Power Meeting, 1995.
Little, R.D., Electrical Power Disaggregation in Commercial Buildings with Applications to a Non-Intrusive Load Monitor, MIT Dept. Mech. Engr. MS thesis, 1991.
Norford, L.K., Hinteregger, P., Little, R., and Mabey, N., ``Applications of Non-Intrusive Electrical Load Monitoring in Commercial Buildings,'' MIT Building Technology Program, Dept. Architecture, Report, Dec. 1992.
Norford, L.K., ``Non-Intrusive Electric Load Monitoring in Commercial Buildings," Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot and Humid Climates, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1992, pp. 133-140.
Norford, L. and S. Leeb, ``Nonintrusive Electrical Load Monitoring," draft, 1993.
Norford, L. K. and R. D. Tabors, "Non-Intrusive Electrical Load Monitoring, a Technique for Reduced-Cost Load Research and Energy Management." Commercial Performance: Analysis and Measurement, Proceedings of the ACEEE 1992 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Volume 3, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Washington, D.C., 1992, pp. 3.187-3.198.
Plexus Research Inc., The NIALMS Report, occasional newsletter, 289 Great Rd., Acton, MA, 01720.
Rouvellou, I., and G.W. Hart, ``Inference of a Probabilistic Finite-State Machine from its Output," to appear in IEEE-TR-SMC, 1995.
Sharp, T. R., "Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Systems: Considerations for Use and Potential Applications," Demand and Load Shapes---Proceedings of the ACEEE 1994 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Volume 2, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp. 2.241-2.247.
Sharp, T. R., "Development and Application of a High-Speed, High-Resolution Data Acquisition System for Monitoring Power at the Service Entrance to Buildings," ORNL/TM-12921 (Draft), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February, 1995.
Siwko, J. Identification Algorithm for the Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitor, M.I.T. Dept. EE/CS BS Thesis, 1986.
Sultanem, F., ``Using Appliance Signatures for Monitoring Residential Loads at Meter Panel Level,'' IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 1991.
Tabors, R. et al, MIT Final Report: Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring, draft.