Edge Deep Learning for Smart Energy Applications

The Internet of Energy (IoE) paradigm is an advancing area of research concerning the fusion of smart technology and energy efficiency [1], combing data collection, processing, and visualization. Smart energy monitoring witnesses technological advancements such as smart metering and IoE networking, allowing the expansion of smart energy networks in a smart house. In this research, we aim to understand energy behavior through big data collection and classification and improve energy efficiency using behavioral economics, deep learning-based recommender systems, and intuitive data visualizations. In specific, a specialized case study is reported on the ODROID XU4 platform [3], and a setup developed at De Montfort University (DMU) at the Energy Lab and AI Lab, it is aimed to build a novel appliance level dataset with contextual ambient environmental data. As a novel advancement in the field, the ODROID performs edge deep learning computations on the collected data, to clean it, summarize it, anonymize it, and classification, it transmits it to a cloud server for further deep processing and storage. Concluding, the proposed work provides aids in exploiting energy-efficiency technologies for improving energy efficiency via an innovative, automated energy efficiency deep learning engine.