Enhancing Anomaly Detection in Critical Systems Using Household Appliance Power Consumption Data

It is crucial to detect anomalous use of electrical power in critical systems to prevent malfunctions or hazards, ensure operational security, and optimize the energy economy. Since anomalies in critical systems can serve as early warning systems for potential issues or threats that could lead to severe failures, it becomes strategically crucial to discover them as soon as possible. This study proposes and suggests a novel technique for anomaly identification in industrial critical systems using a household appliance’s electrical power consumption dataset in the absence of a dedicated critical system or industrial equipment dataset. The study looks at the ability of a deep learning (DL) model trained on household data to identify anomalous patterns in large-scale industrial equipment’s power use. Convolutional neural network (CNN) is used in this work to analyze anomalous electrical power use based on micro-moments. In this work, an appliance-level dataset is employed for experimentation.
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appliance-wise grayscale images are generated from numeric dataset with and without the instance-wise N-gram approach. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is evaluated and compared it with other ML and DL models used earlier. The experimental findings showed that the proposed approach worked better than other models. Compared to images created without the instance-wise N-gram approach, the performance of the proposed approach with images created with N-gram is superior.