Power Consumption Data Research Articles

Research and Development of an Embedded Multi-Channel Sensor Data Acquisition Device for Reservoir Dams

The embedded system of intelligent reservoir dam achieves the integration and efficient utilization of water conservancy dam system data through multi-channel data collection and analysis calculated by computer technology, CNC system, and neural network. Compared with traditional data collection and processing methods, both timeliness and accuracy have been greatly improved. This study aims to develop a multi-channel sensor data acquisition device for reservoir dams based on embedded system technology. This device can collect real-time and efficient data from sensors in various parts of the dam, ensuring the safe operation of the reservoir dam. By using advanced embedded system technology, this device has advantages such as low power consumption, high stability, and real-time data transmission. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to study the embedded multi-channel sensor data acquisition device for reservoir dams in multiple directions and factors. The AHP method provides an effective means for problem decision-making in complex situations. Referring to the AHP method, the factors that affect reservoir dams can be divided into different levels. Compare the importance of two random factors in each level to obtain a specific quantitative expression of the relative important factors on a scale. Then repeat this step to obtain the weight ranking for different levels. At the same time, the device monitors key parameters such as temperature, humidity, displacement, and pressure in various parts of the dam through multiple sensors, providing strong support for early warning and decision-making of reservoir dams. The results of this study have important practical significance and application value for improving the safety and stability of reservoir dams.

A novel AI-powered method for robust identification of operational phases in refrigerators

Refrigerators are essential appliances in our daily lives, while the accurate identification of their operational phase is crucial for various applications, such as energy management and maintenance. This paper introduces a novel method to predict the operational phase of refrigerators based on power consumption data, exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) and pattern recognition techniques. Specifically, the proposed method initially identifies the driving speed of the compressor (fixed or variable speed) utilizing an Adaptive Boosting, (AdaBoost) classifier. Following that, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) classifier was designed for each type of compressor based on extracted statistical features. This classifier is used to categorize daily power consumption into the different operational phases. Moreover, the proposed AI-driven diagnostic tool facilitates operational-based prescriptive maintenance by addressing periodic and phase-specific maintenance actions while providing homeowners with informed suggestions on alternative refrigerator models that offer greater cost savings and reduced annual energy consumption. The proposed method was tested on real and simulated data for over 20 years, with the AdaBoost classifier achieving an accuracy close to 97% and an F1 score close to 97% and the LSTM nodes achieving an accuracy of approximately 95% in all cases. Finally, the method demonstrated robustness when applied to new datasets, showing comparable performance on unknown data, rendering it a powerful tool for refrigerator management and maintenance.

Anomaly Detection Model of Time Segment Power Usage Behavior Using Unsupervised Learning

<p>In Taiwan, the current electricity prices for residential users remain relatively low. This results in a diminished incentive for these users to invest in energy-saving improvements. Consequently, devising strategies to encourage residential users to adopt energy-saving measures becomes a vital research area. Grounded in behavioral science, this study introduces a feasible approach where an energy management system provides alerts and corresponding energy-saving recommendations to residential users upon detecting abnormal electricity consumption behavior. To pinpoint anomalous electricity usage within specific time segments, this research employs an unsupervised machine learning method, developing an anomaly detection model for the overall electricity consumption behavior of residential users. The model focuses on analyzing 2-hour intervals of electricity consumption, enabling more effective detection of abnormal usage patterns. It is trained using power consumption data collected from five actual residential users as part of an experimental study. The results indicate that the proposed anomaly detection model achieves performance metrics such as Precision, Recall, and F1-score of 0.90 or above, showcasing its potential for practical implementation.</p> <p> </p>

Ultra-low power, high-data rate, fully on-chip radio frequency on-off keying receiver for internet-of-things applications

Despite the enormous potential of energy-efficient receivers for wireless sensor networks, the large power consumption or limited data rate support impedes its extensive applications. Here, we present an energy-efficient, ultra-low power, higher data rate supporting, completely on-chip radio-frequency receiver frontend for on-off keying modulated signals in the 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical band. This compact-sized receiver is achieved by implementing temperature-resilient oscillator, pseudo-differential mixer, and a wideband detector while avoiding bulky external components such as bulk-acoustic wave resonators, crystal oscillators. Measurement results demonstrate that the proposed on-off keying receiver can decode low power level radio-frequency signals up to 5 Mbps data rate while consuming only 178 µW power. This work also demonstrates support for lower data rates at reduced power. Since the proposed receiver operates in different power modes, it can be integrated in diverse applications including internet-of-things devices and continuously monitoring biomedical/wearable implants.

Performance analysis of a blockchain enabled domestic power consumption monitoring and forecasting system

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a blockchain-based data capture and transmission system that will collect real-time power consumption data from a household electrical appliance and transfer it securely to a local server for energy analytics such as forecasting. Design/methodology/approach The data capture system is composed of two current transformer (CT) sensors connected to two different electrical appliances. The CT sensors send the power readings to two Arduino microcontrollers which in turn connect to a Raspberry-Pi for aggregating the data. Blockchain is then enabled onto the Raspberry-Pi through a Java API so that the data are transmitted securely to a server. The server provides real-time visualization of the data as well as prediction using the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and long short term memory (LSTM) algorithms. Findings The results for the blockchain analysis demonstrate that when the data readings are transmitted in smaller blocks, the security is much greater as compared with blocks of larger size. To assess the accuracy of the prediction algorithms data were collected for a 20 min interval to train the model and the algorithms were evaluated using the sliding window approach. The mean average percentage error (MAPE) was used to assess the accuracy of the algorithms and a MAPE of 1.62% and 1.99% was obtained for the LSTM and MLP algorithms, respectively. Originality/value A detailed performance analysis of the blockchain-based transmission model using time complexity, throughput and latency as well as energy forecasting has been performed.

Smart Homes, Smart Choices: Using Big Data to Boost Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability

The major contributor to home energy consumption is home appliances, comprising about two-thirds of the total energy used. Analyzing electricity usage at the appliance level is crucial due to varying energy consumption levels among different appliances. This analysis allows individuals to either upgrade or minimize the use of inefficient appliances. To prioritize energy conservation, reducing the usage of energy-inefficient household appliances is imperative. Smart meters in a smart home scenario record electricity consumption data. The collected and monitored data from smart meters integrate with Big Data, playing a substantial role in this domain. Our proposed model optimizes electricity usage by identifying and categorizing household energy-inefficient appliances with a novel transition detection algorithm and appliance detection model. Furthermore, Utilizing Appliance-Level power consumption data from the UK-DALE dataset and One vs Rest clustering techniques, the proposed model effectively identifies devices with higher energy consumption. Additionally, the result analysis of the proposed model highlights the advantages of transitioning to energy-efficient devices, reducing both power consumption and financial wastage.

Dragon_Pi: IoT Side-Channel Power Data Intrusion Detection Dataset and Unsupervised Convolutional Autoencoder for Intrusion Detection

The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to a significant rise in cyber attacks and an expanded attack surface for the average consumer. In order to protect consumers and infrastructure, research into detecting malicious IoT activity must be of the highest priority. Security research in this area has two key issues: the lack of datasets for training artificial intelligence (AI)-based intrusion detection models and the fact that most existing datasets concentrate only on one type of network traffic. Thus, this study introduces Dragon_Pi, an intrusion detection dataset designed for IoT devices based on side-channel power consumption data. Dragon_Pi comprises a collection of normal and under-attack power consumption traces from separate testbeds featuring a DragonBoard 410c and a Raspberry Pi. Dragon_Slice is trained on this dataset; it is an unsupervised convolutional autoencoder (CAE) trained exclusively on held-out normal slices from Dragon_Pi for anomaly detection. The Dragon_Slice network has two iterations in this study. The original achieves 0.78 AUC without post-processing and 0.876 AUC with post-processing. A second iteration of Dragon_Slice, utilising dropout to further impede the CAE’s ability to reconstruct anomalies, outperforms the original network with a raw AUC of 0.764 and a post-processed AUC of 0.89.

Revolutionizing domestic solar power systems with IoT-enabled Blockchain technology

Solar power systems in homes have become the need of the hour due to the crisis of fossil fuels. Also, it is a useful way of rural electrification and cutting down on running electricity costs. This paper discusses a 26-kW solar power system for powering homes along with IoT-based monitoring. The proposed system is expected to be low in cost and highly efficient. The system can also be used as a battery backup without solar power. The emergence of Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionize the sharing of information by providing a means of building trust in decentralized settings without the reliance on intermediaries. This technological breakthrough has the potential to transform several industries, including the internet of things (IoT). In addition to Blockchain, IoT has also been able to address some of its limitations by utilizing innovative technologies like big data and cloud computing. For security, Blockchain as a decentralized application will be used. Each block typically contains the transaction data, and power consumption data which can’t be tampered with even if changing all subsequent blocks, which is expensive to do so.

Permanent VS Transitory Shocks to Electricity Consumption: Panel Evidence from 19 African Countries

ABSTRACT: Considering Africa's increasing electricity demands and the pivotal role of electricity in socio-economic development, this study addresses a research gap in understanding the stochastic properties of per capita electricity consumption in African contexts. Through examining the integration properties of per capita electricity consumption across 19 African countries, the research determines whether 'shocks' yield transitory or permanent effects, aiding policy formulation and future demand forecasting. Annual electric power consumption data (1971 – 2014) (kWh per capita) from the WDI across 19 African countries are used. Our methodology starts with formally testing for cross-sectional dependence (CSD) using various tests to avoid potential size distortions. Subsequently, we employ the novel panel stationarity test of Nazlioglu and Karul (2017), a Fourier KPSS panel stationarity test. The robustness of the analysis is enriched by incorporating the Hadri and Kurozumi (2011) panel stationarity test and Nazlioglu et al. (2021) new panel stationary tests. The CSD test results reveal mutual dependency in electricity consumption among the sampled African countries, underscoring the need for a panel testing methodology that accommodates CSD. The results of the panel stationarity tests that allow CSD and structural breaks—specifically, the Nazlioglu and Karul (2017) test, which models structural breaks as a gradual process—reject the null hypothesis of trend stationarity for both single frequencies, i.e., k =1, and 2. Similarly, all new, complementary panel stationarity tests from Nazlioglu et al. (2021) reject the null hypothesis of stationarity for both frequencies. Collectively, the outcomes from various panel stationarity tests present strong evidence of nonstationary per capita electricity consumption within the sampled African countries. Additionally, the Nazlioglu and Karul panel stationarity test enables an analysis of the individual Fourier KPSS test for cross-sectional units in the panel. Of the 19 countries, only Togo does not reject the null hypothesis of stationarity for both frequencies. These individual country results align with the panel outcomes, providing compelling evidence for the nonstationarity of the per capita electricity consumption series across the investigated African nations. Accordingly, shocks to electricity consumption will have permanent effects, indicating that per capita electricity consumption will not return to its pre-shock equilibrium path. In this case, demand or consumption stabilizing policies will have long-run effects.

Smart Grid Security: An Effective Hybrid CNN-Based Approach for Detecting Energy Theft Using Consumption Patterns.

In Internet of Things-based smart grids, smart meters record and report a massive number of power consumption data at certain intervals to the data center of the utility for load monitoring and energy management. Energy theft is a big problem for smart meters and causes non-technical losses. Energy theft attacks can be launched by malicious consumers by compromising the smart meters to report manipulated consumption data for less billing. It is a global issue causing technical and financial damage to governments and operators. Deep learning-based techniques can effectively identify consumers involved in energy theft through power consumption data. In this study, a hybrid convolutional neural network (CNN)-based energy-theft-detection system is proposed to detect data-tampering cyber-attack vectors. CNN is a commonly employed method that automates the extraction of features and the classification process. We employed CNN for feature extraction and traditional machine learning algorithms for classification. In this work, honest data were obtained from a real dataset. Six attack vectors causing data tampering were utilized. Tampered data were synthetically generated through these attack vectors. Six separate datasets were created for each attack vector to design a specialized detector tailored for that specific attack. Additionally, a dataset containing all attack vectors was also generated for the purpose of designing a general detector. Furthermore, the imbalanced dataset problem was addressed through the application of the generative adversarial network (GAN) method. GAN was chosen due to its ability to generate new data closely resembling real data, and its application in this field has not been extensively explored. The data generated with GAN ensured better training for the hybrid CNN-based detector on honest and malicious consumption patterns. Finally, the results indicate that the proposed general detector could classify both honest and malicious users with satisfactory accuracy.

Detection of Malicious Threats Exploiting Clock-Gating Hardware Using Machine Learning

Embedded system technologies are increasingly being incorporated into manufacturing, smart grid, industrial control systems, and transportation systems. However, the vast majority of today’s embedded platforms lack the support of built-in security features which makes such systems highly vulnerable to a wide range of cyber-attacks. Specifically, they are vulnerable to malware injection code that targets the power distribution system of an ARM Cortex-M-based microcontroller chipset (ARM, Cambridge, UK). Through hardware exploitation of the clock-gating distribution system, an attacker is capable of disabling/activating various subsystems on the chip, compromising the reliability of the system during normal operation. This paper proposes the development of an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) capable of detecting clock-gating malware deployed on ARM Cortex-M-based embedded systems. To enhance the robustness and effectiveness of our approach, we fully implemented, tested, and compared six IDSs, each employing different methodologies. These include IDSs based on K-Nearest Classifier, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, and Stochastic Gradient Descent. Each of these IDSs was designed to identify and categorize various variants of clock-gating malware deployed on the system. We have analyzed the performance of these IDSs in terms of detection accuracy against various types of clock-gating malware injection code. Power consumption data collected from the chipset during normal operation and malware code injection attacks were used for models’ training and validation. Our simulation results showed that the proposed IDSs, particularly those based on K-Nearest Classifier and Logistic Regression, were capable of achieving high detection rates, with some reaching a detection rate of 0.99. These results underscore the effectiveness of our IDSs in protecting ARM Cortex-M-based embedded systems against clock-gating malware.

The advantages and comparison of resistive touch screens and capacitive touch screens

ATouch screens are an indispensable component in electronic products nowadays, and resistive and capacitive touch screens are the most common and widely used touch screens in touch screens. However, there is still a lack of intuitive literature to explain the differences and advantages between capacitive and resistive touch screens. This article provides a partial overview of the principles and structures of resistive and capacitive touch screen technologies and finally analyzes their respective advantages and disadvantages. The resistive touch screen is mainly divided into four-wire resistive touch screens and five-wire resistive touch screens. Its advantage over capacitive touch screens is that the process is more mature, and the product cost is lower. However, capacitive touch screens, due to their different working principles from resistive touch screens, can achieve multi-point touch, which is a significant feature. In capacitive touch screens, mutual capacitive projection capacitive touch screens have become the main favored technology in the touch screen industry due to their low power consumption, stable signal, and fast data collection speed. They are also an essential direction for the future development of touch screens.

Distributed power analysis attack on SM4 encryption chip

Encryption chips are specialized integrated circuits that incorporate encryption algorithms for data encryption and decryption, ensuring data confidentiality and security. In China, the domestic SM4 algorithm is commonly utilized, as opposed to the international AES encryption algorithm. These widely implemented encryption standards have been proven to be difficult to crack through crypt analysis methods Currently, power consumption side-channel attacks are the most prevalent method. They involve capturing power consumption data during the encryption process and subsequently recovering the encryption key from this data. The two leading methods are Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and machine learning techniques. DPA does not necessitate prior knowledge but relies heavily on the number of power consumption curves. With only 50 power consumption data points, the accuracy is a mere 80%. Machine learning methods require prior knowledge, achieving an accuracy rate above 95% with only 30 power traces, albeit with training times typically exceeding 15 min. In this paper, a distributed energy analysis attack approach was presented based on Correlation Power Analysis (CPA). The power consumption data was divided into 16 subsets, with each subset corresponding to 8 bytes of the key. By training each subset separately, the 8-byte key’s corresponding power consumption data is reduced to only 100 dimensions, resulting in a 76% decrease in cracking time and a 3% improvement in cracking accuracy rate.This article also trains a more complex 256 classification model to directly crack the final key, achieving a success rate of 28% in cracking 128-bit passwords with only 1 power trace

An efficient load forecasting technique by using Holt‐Winters and Prophet algorithms to mitigate the impact on power consumption in COVID‐19

AbstractIt is strongly recommended to implement effective long‐term load forecasting for future power generation in the new architecture of the smart grid and buildings. This method is essential for the smart grid's stability, power demand estimation, and an improved energy management system, which will enhance integration between efficient demand response and distributed renewable energy sources. However, due to influencing elements including climatic, societal, and seasonal aspects, it is quite challenging to perform energy prediction with high accuracy. To estimate the load demand before and during the time period of the COVID‐19 paradigm with its diversity and complexity, the authors present and integrate time series forecasting techniques such as Holt‐Winters and Prophet algorithms. In comparison to the Holt‐Winters model, the Prophet model has shown to be more noise‐resistant. Additionally, the Prophet model surpasses the Holt‐Winters model according to the generalisability test of the two models by using the hourly driven power consumption data from Houston, Texas, USA. The resultant constraints and influential factors are discussed, and experimental results can be validated from the pivotal outcome.

Recent advances in flexible memristors for advanced computing and sensing.

Conventional computing systems based on von Neumann architecture face challenges such as high power consumption and limited data processing capability. Improving device performance via scaling guided by Moore's Law becomes increasingly difficult. Emerging memristors can provide a promising solution for achieving high-performance computing systems with low power consumption. In particular, the development of flexible memristors is an important topic for wearable electronics, which can lead to intelligent systems in daily life with high computing capacity and efficiency. Here, recent advances in flexible memristors are reviewed, from operating mechanisms and typical materials to representative applications. Potential directions and challenges for future study in this area are also discussed.

Hybrid model for microgrid short term load forecasting based on machine learning

Short-term load forecasting (STLF) is crucial for microgrid (MG) operators to optimize energy generation and storage schedules based on anticipated load variations. Accurately predicting peak demand periods enables operators to ensure sufficient power supply while minimizing reliance on expensive backup sources, resulting in cost savings, and improved overall system efficiency. Residential MG power demand is highly dynamic due to external factors like residents’ lifestyles, behaviors, and weather responses, leading to significant irregularity and management challenges. To deal with these challenges, we propose a hybrid STLF model that combines Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Fuzzy Logic (FL), referred to as the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). This model was trained and tested using real power consumption data. We evaluated the performance of the ANFIS model by comparing it with another ANN model using three evaluation metrics: Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The trained ANFIS model achieved an MAPE of 8.7528% and an RMSE of 0.4752kw, while the ANN model achieved an MAPE of 8.8123% and an RMSE of 0.4816kw. These results confirm the accuracy of the hybrid ANFIS model compared to ANN. The ANFIS model demonstrated its ability to capture complex and nonlinear relationships between various factors affecting load demand, making it suitable for handling the dynamic nature of MG load.

PowerGen: Resources Utilization and Power Consumption Data Generation Framework for Energy Prediction in Edge and Cloud Computing

The explosive adoption of IoT applications in different domains, such as healthcare, transportation, and smart home and industry, has led to the pervasive adoption of edge and cloud computing. Large-scale edge and cloud data centers, consisting of thousands of computing servers, are hungry-energy infrastructure exacerbating issues such as environmental carbon footprint and high electricity costs. Developing energy-efficient solutions for cloud infrastructure requires knowledge of the correlation between computing server resource utilization and power consumption. Power consumption modeling exhibits this relationship and is crucial for energy savings. In this paper, we propose PowerGen, a framework to generate server resources utilization and corresponding power consumption dataset. The proposed framework will aid academic researchers to formulate correlations between resources utilization and power consumption by using power prediction models, and evaluate energy-aware resource management approaches in an edge-cloud computing system. It will help edge and cloud administrators to evaluate the energy-efficiency of heterogenous severs architectures in a datacenter. We exemplify the applicability of the dataset, generated by our proposed framework, in power prediction modeling and energy-aware scheduling for green computing scenarios.

Optimizing wireless charging infrastructure placement using genetic algorithms

Electric vehicles (EVs) play a crucial role in tackling environmental issues in the transportation industry. The incorporation of effective charging infrastructure is crucial in promoting the broad acceptance of electric vehicles (EVs). This work investigates the optimization of the location of wireless charging infrastructure in urban contexts using genetic algorithms (GAs). The location data, which includes latitude and longitude coordinates, showed a wide range of spatial distributions that are ideal for deploying charging stations. These distributions display variances that are favorable for strategically placing the infrastructure. The examination of power consumption data revealed significant variations in energy demand across different sites, ranging from 180 kWh to 300 kWh. These differences indicate that each location has its own distinct energy needs. The population density statistics exhibited a spectrum of values, ranging from 600 individuals per square unit. The population density is 1200 persons per square kilometer. The abbreviation "km" refers to kilometers, which is used to indicate different levels of prospective electric vehicle (EV) users. In addition, the distance data provided information about the lengths between prospective locations for charging stations, which varied from 400 km to 1200 km. These distances had an impact on the concerns of connection and transmission efficiency. The research highlights the intricate nature of the elements that affect the ideal location of infrastructure, underlining the need for a methodical approach to optimization. Integrating these statistics provides a foundation for developing an objective function in the GA framework to optimize the location of charging infrastructure. The study's results provide valuable understanding of the many factors that influence the location of charging infrastructure. The goal is to promote the development of efficient and easily accessible electric vehicle charging networks in metropolitan areas.

Using LSTM neural network for power consumption forecasting

Massive integration of distributed renewable energy sources (DRES) into the power grid will eventually change the supply behavior of the traditional power system. The RES output is obviously unstable, so the system’s reliability should be considered carefully. This is a process of accurately balancing generation capacity to the demand of the consumers. Storing generated energy is a huge cost, so energy is lost in the transmission networks during off-peak times, in contrast, the system suffers from a deficiency of energy during peak times which leads to the disconnection of certain areas from the network. This situation is a main source of damage to the power system and economic losses for the utility. This work analyzes power consumption data of the Andijan region of Uzbekistan on a daily frequency. Different lengths for input sequence data to the network data were selected according to the autocorrelation of the data. The results showed that longer sequence data is beneficial to the LSTM network in case of strong autocorrelation.

A Prediction Model of Power Consumption in Smart City Using Hybrid Deep Learning Algorithm

A smart city utilizes vast data collected through electronic methods, such as sensors and cameras, to improve daily life by managing resources and providing services. Moving towards a smart grid is a step in realizing this concept. The proliferation of smart grids and the concomitant progress made in the development of measuring infrastructure have garnered considerable interest in short-term power consumption forecasting. In reality, predicting future power demands has shown to be a crucial factor in preventing energy waste and developing successful power management techniques. In addition, historical time series data on energy consumption may be considered necessary to derive all relevant knowledge and estimate future use. This research paper aims to construct and compare with original deep learning algorithms for forecasting power consumption over time. The proposed model, LSTM-GRU-PPCM, combines the Long -Short-Term -Memory (LSTM) and Gated- Recurrent- Unit (GRU) Prediction Power Consumption Model. Power consumption data will be utilized as the time series dataset, and predictions will be generated using the developed model. This research avoids consumption peaks by using the proposed LSTM-GRU-PPCM neural network to forecast future load demand. In order to conduct a thorough assessment of the method, a series of experiments were carried out using actual power consumption data from various cities in India. The experiment results show that the LSTM-GRU-PPCM model improves the original LSTM forecasting algorithms evaluated by Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) for various time series. The proposed model achieved a minimum error prediction of MAE=0.004 and RMSE=0.032, which are excellent values compared to the original LSTM. Significant implications for power quality management and equipment maintenance may be expected from the LSTM-GRU-PPCM approach, as its forecasts will allow for proactive decision-making and lead to load shedding when power consumption exceeds the allowed level