# Metadata for Energy Disaggregation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5946 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1403.5946/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 24 Mar 2014.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [High-resolution synthetic residential energy use profiles for the United States](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08103/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Energy disaggregation is the process of estimating the energy consumed by individual electrical appliances given only a time series of the whole-home power demand. Energy disaggregation researchers require datasets of the power demand from individual appliances and the whole-home power demand. Multiple such datasets have been released over the last few years but provide metadata in a disparate array of formats including CSV files and plain-text README files. At best, the lack of a standard metadata schema makes it unnecessarily time-consuming to write software to process multiple datasets and, at worse, the lack of a standard means that crucial information is simply absent from some datasets. We propose a metadata schema for representing appliances, meters, buildings, datasets, prior knowledge about appliances and appliance models. The schema is relational and provides a simple but powerful inheritance mechanism.