Classification of Micro-Moment-Based Anomalous Power Consumption Using Transfer Learning

Abstract

The identification of unusual power usage in buildings is crucial for improving energy efficiency. Using an electrical consumption monitoring system can help with energy conservation by identifying unusual energy consumption patterns. This paper suggests a micro-moment-based methodology for detecting abnormal power use. This study makes use of a benchmark dataset called SimDataset, which is used in most of the micro-moment classification-related works. On the images created from the dataset labeled with two classes and five classes, binary and multi-class classifications have both been used. Transfer learning is used by employing pre-trained CNN models, namely DenseNet121, ResNet50V2, and Xception model. The results depicted that the DenseNet121 model has outperformed all other models by giving the best accuracy of 99% and F1-score of 0.984. © 2023 IEEE.