Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a technique that determines the load composition of a household through a single point of measurement at the main power feed. Here we presented an unsupervised approach to determine the number of appliances in the household, their power consumption and the state of each one at any given moment.

The report describes a comprehensive vehicle fleet composition, utilization, and evolution simulator that can be used to forecast household vehicle ownership and mileage by type of vehicle over time. The components of the simulator are developed in this research effort using detailed revealed and stated preference data on household vehicle fleet composition, utilization, and planned transaction...

In the early 1960s‚ Robert Netting described househ olds in the Kofyar hom eland in Nigeria and explained their size‚ composition ‚ and other characteristics as adju stments to agrarian ecology. Household changes attending movement to a frontier were analyzed in the same framework. By the 1980s‚ the econom ic ration ale for hom eland farming had all but disappeared ‚ and some villages seemed on...

BACKGROUND: Waste is any substance that discarded after primary use or worthless, defective, and of no use, it a serious problem in several countries. The largest composition waste Indonesia today food waste. In this country, management still carried out using the landfill method. Therefore, increase generation will have very impact on environment. can lead to global warming, acid rain, depleti...