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 can measure mains power (voltage and current) at a sampling rate of 250kHz and 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.