Non-intrusive load identification method based on VMD-LSTM

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) technology is only based on the current and voltage information of the main entrance of home power supply to obtain the electrical information of indoor electrical equipment. Improving the accuracy of load identification is of great significance to optimize the energy structure, improve the efficiency of power utilization and reduce energy consumption. Firstly, the normalized current signal is decomposed by using variational mode decomposition (VMD), and then the correlation coefficients between each component and the original current signal are calculated. The two components with the largest correlation coefficients are selected as the load characteristics and input into the trained LSTM neural network for identification. The test results of an example show that the recognition rate of this method is up to 99% on public data set PLAID and 96.6% on laboratory data set, which proves the effectiveness of this method.