A novel smart meter data compression method via stacked convolutional sparse auto-encoder

doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2019.105761

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A novel smart meter data compression method via stacked convolutional sparse auto-encoder

2020-06-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.ijepes.2019.105761

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With the wide deployment of smart meters in distribution systems, a new challenge emerges for the storage and transmission of huge volume of power consumption data collected by smart meters. In this paper, a deep-learning-based compression method for smart meter data is proposed via stacked convolutional sparse auto-encoder (SCSAE). An efficient and lightweight auto-encoder structure is first designed by leveraging the unique characteristics of smart meter readings. Specifically, the encoder is designed based on 2D separable convolution layers and the decoder is based on transposed convolution layers. Compared with the existing auto-encoder method and traditional methods, the proposed structure is redesigned, and the parameters and reconstruction errors are efficiently reduced. In addition, cluster-based indexes are used to represent the regularity of power consumption behavior and the relationship between electricity consumption behavior and compression effect is studied. Case studies illustrate that the proposed method can attain significant enhancement in model size, computational efficiency, and reconstruction error reduction while maintaining the most abundant details. And grouping compression considering users' electricity consumption rules can further improve the compression effect.

Keywords:

Smart meter

Lossy compression

Separable convolution

Auto-encoder

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