We applied our model to a data set of 10-min interval smart
meter data for 1628 households, collected over 238 days from
February 28, 2010 to October 23, 2010. Detailed data about
household characteristics were available via a 114-questions online
survey, covering a wide range of characteristics including climate
and location, building characteristics, appliances and electronics
stock, demographics, and occupants’ behavior.
Participants were provided with a device that recorded the
electricity consumption of the household for every 10 min and sent
the data to a central server to be stored. The device installation and
server costs were covered by the experiment administrators (for
more details of the experiment, refer to Ref. [33]).