New Members/Old Members: Introduce yourself!

[kevin1]

@csaether, glad to welcome you to the forums. Fun to have folks like you here who know what NILM means I’m a fan of the application of machine learning to NILM. Here’s a post I put together with some complied wisdom on how Sense does its magic plus why it misses stuff.

At what point did you decide to buy smart plug?

I’m going to chime in one more time… Tell me if I’m talking too much. It’s best if you think about Sense in terms of things it will naturally find, special cases, and things that it will be unlikely to detect in the medium term. Sense identifies devices based on finding recognizable on and off “signatures”, where the signature includes things like power level, phase, speed of transition, and a bunch of other features that you can’t even see in the Power Meter. Many devices types like heaters/…