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An Efficient Method for Detecting Abnormal Electricity Behavior

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  • Chao Tang

    (College of Computer Science and Technology, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China)

  • Yunchuan Qin

    (College of Computer Science and Technology, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China)

  • Yumeng Liu

    (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

  • Huilong Pi

    (College of Computer Science and Technology, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China)

  • Zhuo Tang

    (College of Computer Science and Technology, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China)

Abstract

The non-technical losses caused by abnormal power consumption behavior of power users seriously affect the revenue of power companies and the quality of power supply. To assist electric power companies in improving the efficiency of power consumption audit and regulating the power consumption behavior of users, this paper proposes a power consumption anomaly detection method named High-LowDAAE (Autoencoder model for dual adversarial training of high low-level temporal features). High-LowDAAE adds an extra “discriminator” named AE3 to USAD (UnSupervised Anomaly Detection on Multivariate Time Series), which performs the same function as AE2 in USAD. AE3 performs the same function as AE2 in USAD, i.e., it is trained against AE1 to enhance its ability to reconstruct average data. However, AE3 differs from AE2 because the two “discriminators” correspond to the high-level and low-level time series features output from the shared encoder network. By utilizing different levels of temporal features to reconstruct the data and conducting adversarial training, AE1 can reconstruct the time-series data more efficiently, thus improving the accuracy of detecting abnormal electricity usage. In addition, to enhance the model’s feature extraction ability for time-series data, the self-encoder is constructed with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network, and the fully connected layer in the USAD model is no longer used. This modification improves the extraction of temporal features and provides richer hidden features for the adversarial training of the dual “discriminators”. Finally, the ablation and comparison experiments are conducted using accurate electricity consumption data from users, and the results show that the proposed method has higher accuracy.

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  • Chao Tang & Yunchuan Qin & Yumeng Liu & Huilong Pi & Zhuo Tang, 2024. "An Efficient Method for Detecting Abnormal Electricity Behavior," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(11), pages 1-16, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:17:y:2024:i:11:p:2502-:d:1400189
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