Anomaly Detection in Small-Scale Industrial and Household Appliances

Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying rare events/ observations that differ substantially from the majority of the data. It is considered an important task in the energy sector to enable the identification of non-standard device conditions. The use of anomaly detection techniques in small-scale residential and industrial settings can provide useful insights about device health, maintenance requirements, and downtime, which in turn can lead to lower operating costs. There are numerous approaches for detecting anomalies in a range of application scenarios such as prescriptive appliance maintenance. This work reports on anomaly detection using a data set of fridge power consumption that operates on a near zero energy building scenario. We implement a variety of machine and deep learning algorithms and evaluate performances using multiple metrics. In the light of the present state of the art, the contribution of this work is the development of a inference pipeline that incorporates numerous methodologies and algorithms capable of producing high accuracy results for detecting appliance failures.