Energy Disaggregation for Small and Medium Businesses and their Operational Characteristics

Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) make up a large chunk of the total energy demand, whereas non-intrusive load disaggregation has been dominated by applications in the residential domain. Existing on-site sensor-based approaches for energy disaggregation of SMBs are not scalable and limit energy efficiency analysis, usage behavior study, and kind-of-site classification, which are essential for energy management and grid operations. In this paper, we propose a highly scalable, non-intrusive load disaggregation model for SMBs, which is independent of on-site sensor data.