COLD, a transformer-based model specifically designed to address the challenges of disaggregating high-frequency data with multiple simultaneously working devices is proposed, achieving 95% load identification accuracy and 82% disaggregation performance on the test data.
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) enables detailed analyses of household electricity usage by disaggregating the total power consumption into individual appliance-level data. In this paper, we propose COLD, a transformer-based model specifically designed to address the challenges of disaggregating high-frequency data with multiple simultaneously working devices. COLD supports up to 42 devices and accurately handles scenarios with up to 11 concurrent loads, achieving 95% load identification accuracy and 82% disaggregation performance on the test data. In addition, we introduce a new fully labeled high-frequency NILM dataset for load disaggregation derived from the UK-DALE 16 kHz dataset. Finally, we analyze the decline in NILM model performance as the number of concurrent loads increases.