Patent Document ID: 9612286
Application ID: 13366850
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for detecting individual appliance energy loads from a whole house composite load profile, comprising: a transitions generator, that receives the whole house composite load profile and identifies transitions within the whole house composite load profile; a detector in selective communication with the transitions generator, that receives transitions from the transitions generator and determines a household specific appliance state machine for each appliance in the household, the household specific appliance state machine comprising transitions associated with different functions, if any, of the appliance, thereby modeling an inner mechanism of the appliance; and a solver in selective communication with the detector, which receives as input all of the transitions identified by the transitions generator and the household specific state machines from the detector, and parses all transitions received from the detector as a whole, thereby assigning each transition to a household specific appliance state machine, and disaggregating the whole house composite load profile into individual appliance energy loads.