Honours Research Thesis - NILM

During my honours year at UNSW I chose to research non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM). I continued the work of previous students by developing a second iteration of a high frequency data acquisition device which could:

• Sample mains voltage and current at a frequency of 250kHz
• Collect relevant metadata

An adjacent component of the thesis involved signal processing and data analysis for which I learnt about various machine learning techniques. My final mark was 84/100 (distinction).

Figure: A prototype of the NILM HF data acquisition device. An STM32H7 Nucleo, current transformer, and voltage probe were the main components.