Supervised and unsupervised neural networks: Experimental study for anomaly detection in electrical consumption

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Abstract

Households are responsible for more than 40% of the global electricity consumption [7]. The analysis of this consumption to find unexpected behaviours could have a great impact on saving electricity. This research presents an experimental study of supervised and unsupervised neural networks for anomaly detection in electrical consumption. Multilayer perceptrons and autoencoders are used for each approach, respectively. In order to select the most suitable neural model in each case, there is a comparison of various architectures. The proposed methods are evaluated using real-world data from an individual home electric power usage dataset. The performance is compared with a traditional statistical procedure. Experiments show that the supervised approach has a significant improvement in anomaly detection rate. We evaluate different possible feature sets. The results demonstrate that temporal data and measures of consumption patterns such as mean, standard deviation and percentiles are necessary to achieve higher accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Soft Computing - 17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2018, Proceedings
EditorsMaría de Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor, Ildar Batyrshin, Hiram Eredín Ponce Espinosa
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages98-109
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030044909
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2018 - Guadalajara, Mexico
Duration: 22 Oct 201827 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11288 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2018
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityGuadalajara
Period22/10/1827/10/18

Keywords

  • Anomaly detection
  • Neural networks
  • Statistic
  • Supervised
  • Unsupervised

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