Research Article

Power Load Event Detection and Classification Based on Edge Symbol Analysis and Support Vector Machine

Table 2

Result of ESA on four typical loads.

Overlapped load appliances groupsAccuracy of recognizing transient events (switch on and switch off) %
Load 1 OnLoad 2 OnLoad 2 OffLoad 1 Off

Kettle + Oven100100100100
Oven + Kettle100100100100
Kettle + Microwave oven10080100100
Microwave oven + Kettle10090100100
Kettle + PC100100100100
PC + Kettle10090100100
Oven + Microwave oven100100100100
Microwave oven + Oven10080100100
Oven + PC100100100100
PC + Oven10080100100