Investigation of Rogowski Current Sensors for Appliances Classification in NILM

In this paper, the influence of current sensors of a NILM system is investigated. The current sensors of a classical inductive current transformer and a Rogowski coil are compared. To evaluate the actual influence on the NILM, measurements are performed with two measuring systems with different current sensors. With these measuring systems, 20 different consumers with 50 switch-on and switch-off cycles are measured in parallel. Besides, the influence of the sampling rate on the results of the NILM classification is evaluated. The classification is carried out with features normalized to the performance and without phase information, so only the signal waveform is used to differentiate the devices.