Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20100262842
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | The process described in claim 1 is known as Nonintrusive load monitoring. It was invented in the 1980's by George Hart of MIT. The submitted Wikipedia article gives more background and references |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index... |
| Author/Creator | Mark Nowotarski et al. |
| Title | Nonintrusive load monitoring |
| Publication Date | February 12, 2009 |
| Publisher | Wikipedia.org |
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| Additional Information | The current version of this article may have more references |
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Excerpt
Excerpt Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring, is a process for analyzing changes in the voltage and current going into a house and deducing what appliances are used in the
house as well as their individual energy consumption. Electric meters with NILM technology are used by utility companies to survey the specific uses of electric power in different homes |
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