It is essential to use real-world data when comparing the performance of NILM techniques. Producing real-world data sets can be time consuming, costly, and potentially inconvenient to collect. Researchers are starting to publicly release their data sets, enabling other researchers to compare their approaches against common benchmarks. The following data sets are currently available:
| Dataset | Sampling rate | Duration | # Houses / device instances | Subject | Classes | Ground truth | Country | Availability | Licence | Other channels | Tariff type | Collaboration | Contact information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dataport | 1 Hz to 1 minute | 4+ years (actively growing) | 1200+ | Residential, Commercial, and Light Industrial | ~70 | Submeter channels | US | Free for academic use (majority) / fee for commercial | https://dataport.pecanstreet.org/datalicense | Water, Gas, Weather, Thermostats, Surveys, Energy Audits, and more | https://dataport.pecanstreet.org | ||
| REDD | 16500 Hz / 1 Hz | Several months | 2 / 5 | Residential | ~20 | Submeter channels | US | Request access | None | http://redd.csail.mit.edu/ | |||
| BLUED | 12000 Hz | 1 week | 1 | Residential | ~30 | Labelled events | US | Request access | None | http://inferlab.org/softwares/ | |||
| UK-DALE | 16000 Hz / 1 Hz | Up to 2 years | 6 (of which 3 are at 16 kHz) | Residential | ~40 | Submeter channels | UK | Public FTP | None | http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dk3810/data/ | |||
| PLAID | 30000 Hz | 5 seconds | 55 | Individual appliances | 12 | Individual appliances | US | Public | None | http://plaidplug.com/ | |||
| WHITED | 44000 Hz | 5 seconds | 9 | Individual appliances | 46 | Individual appliances | Multiple | Public | None | http://nilmworkshop.org/ | |||
| Tracebase | 1 Hz | 1 day | 158 | Individual appliances | 43 | Individual appliances | Germany | Request access | None | https://www.tracebase.org/traces | |||
| DRED | 1 Hz / 1 min | 6 months | 1 | Residential | Submeter channels | The Netherlands | Public | Ambient, occupancy, household | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~akshay/dred/ | ||||
| AMPds | 1 minute | 2 years | 1 | Residential | 19 | Submeter channels | Canada | Public | Water, natural gas, weather | http://ampds.org/ | |||
| RAE | 1 Hz | 72 days | 1 | Residential | 24 | Submeter channels | Canada | Public | Thermostat, 3 remote sensors, weather | Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05767 Data: http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZJW4LC | |||
| iAWE | 1 Hz | 73 days | 1 | Residential | 33 | Submeter channels | India | Water | http://iawe.github.io/ | ||||
| HES | 2 minutes | 1 year / 1 month | 251 | Residential | ~20 | Submeter channels | UK | Request access | http://randd.defra.gov.uk/ | ||||
| REFIT | 8 seconds | 2 years | 20 | Residential | 9 | Submeter | UK | Public | Gas, temperature, humidity, light, motion, detailed householder info | https://pure.strath.ac.uk/portal/en/datasets/refit-electrical-load-measurements(31da3ece-f902-4e95-a093-e0a9536983c4).html | |||
| ECO | 1 second | 8 months | 6 / 45 | Residential | Submeter (1 second) | Switzerland | Public | Occupancy | https://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/res/show.html?what=eco-data | ||||
| COMBED | 30 seconds | 1 month | academic building energy | India | http://combed.github.io | ||||||||
| GREEND | Italy and Austria | http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3100 | |||||||||||
| ACS-Fl | 10 seconds | 2 sessions of 1 hour each | 0 / 10 | Home and office appliances | 10 | Plug-meters | Switzerland | Real power, reactive power, RMS current, phase of V relative to I | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WoSSPA.2013.6602387 | ||||
| IHEPCDS | 1 minute | 4 years | 1 / 3 | 3 | France | I, V, P, Q | http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Individual+household+electric+power+consumption | ||||||
| OCTES | 7 secs | 4-13 months | 33 / 1 | Aggregate energy consumption only | 1 | Finland, Iceland, Scotland | http://octes.oamk.fi/final/ | ||||||
| SMART* | 1 Hz | 3 months | 3 / 25 | 25 | USA | Microgeneration, wall switches, motion sensors, door sensors, themostats | http://www.ecs.umass.edu/~deirwin/sustkdd12.pdf | ||||||
| EPRI Load Shape Library | Hourly and Daily available now. 15 minute coming late-2016. | USA | http://loadshape.epri.com | ||||||||||
| Encored TV dataset | 1 month | 20 / 20 | 1: Just TVs | Japan | To be released by early 2017? | Jinsung Kim at Encored (he presented at the 2016 EU NILM Workshop) | |||||||
| Energy Smart Home Lab Dataset | 1 Hz or 0.5 Hz | 1 house | Living lab | To be released in 2017? | Kaibin Bao at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (he presented at the 2016 EU NILM Workshop) | ||||||||
| RBSA | 15 minute | 27 months | 101 | Submetered | Pacific Northwest, USA | http://neea.org/resource-center/regional-data-resources/residential-building-stock-assessment | |||||||
| Johnson and Beausoleil-Morrison 2016 | 1 minute | 1 year | 23 | whole-house, non-HVAC, air conditioner, and furnace fan electrical draws, as well as the draw patterns of some major appliances | Submetered | Ottawa, Canada | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.07.133 Interested researchers are invited to contact Ian Beausoleil-Morrison for access to any of these load profiles (ian_beausoleil-morrison@sbes.ca) | ||||||
| COOLL | 100 kHz | 6 seconds | 1 | Individual appliances | 12 | Individual appliances | France | Public | None | https://coolldataset.github.io/ |