AI models can identify specific real-time appliance usage from smart meters
Carlos Nouel · AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants · Nov 16, 2023 · at 37:24
Carlos Nouel, utility executive, discusses the precision of new smart meters and AI disaggregation models at the grid edge.
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“You know, the reality is because of the high level resolution that we're doing on the sampling and using language models, we actually stopped from, like, guessing what's happening in the home to, like, actually knowing what's happening in the home. Right to the point where I know when, you know, I can tell you about my house, because I have it in my house, you know, I know when, you know, we open the fridge, right, because there's a light in the fridge that comes up, and I know when they open the fridge, which is a bad thing for my kids, but I actually know, right? You know, we know when we plug the AV, we know when, you know, we turn on certain devices, and we know it in real time. It's not, like, four hours later, like, it's real, real time.”
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