Questionnaire-Guided Disaggregation of Energy Appliance Use for Domestic Smart Meter Data

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arXiv:2610.01297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ireland's smart metering programme records electricity use at 30-minute resolution, with smart meters installed in over 80\% of households as of late 2025. While this is useful for billing of smart, time-of-use tariffs, it is too coarse to capture use of domestic appliances. We present a label-free disaggregation system that breaks usage data into 9 appliance categories by combining event detection for high-power loads with questionnaire-guided est