PLAID 2017: Electrical Appliance Voltage and Current Measurements

The 2017 version of the Plug-Load Appliance Identification Dataset (PLAID) contains voltage and current measurements from different electrical household appliances sampled at 30 kHz. Data was collected at 65 different locations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US). The dataset was authored by Leen De Baets.

Use Cases

• Train appliance identification models based on high-frequency electrical signatures.
• Develop energy disaggregation algorithms based on voltage and current waveforms.
• Benchmark signal processing techniques for IoT sensing based on the 30 kHz sampled data.
• Analyze the electrical characteristics of household appliances across different locations.

Strengths

• Measurements are sampled at a high frequency of 30 kHz, capturing detailed waveforms.
• Data was collected from 65 distinct locations, suggesting potential geographic diversity.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Leen De Baets

Collection Method

Voltage and current measurements collected from plug-load appliances.

Time Range

2017

Geography

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States