David Arturo Serna Villa

Mr. David Arturo Serna Villa

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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15 November 2025 in Energies
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DVDavid Arturo Serna Villa
David Arturo Serna Villa
CACarlos Arias
Carlos Arias
TETatiana Manrique Espíndola
Tatiana Manrique Espíndola
AHALEJANDRO SALLYTH GUERRERO HERNANDEZ
ALEJANDRO SALLYTH GUERRERO HERNANDEZ
JSJavier E. Sierra
Javier E. Sierra
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) enables appliance-level energy analysis from aggregated electrical signals, offering valuable insights for smart energy systems. While most NILM research focuses on high-resource environments, this study evaluates the feasibility of deploying NILM algorithms on constrained edge computing platforms. Two representative models for event detection and for energy disaggregation were trained on a high-end PC and tested on both the PC and two edge devices. A modular software framework using a virtual container and virtual environments ensured reproducibility across platforms. Experiments using datasets under simulated real-time streaming conditions revealed that although all devices achieved consistent detection, classification, and disaggregation performance, edge platforms struggled with real-time inference due to processing latency and memory limitations. This study presents a detailed comparison of execution time, resource usage, and model performance, highlighting the trade-offs associated with NILM deployment on embedded systems and proposing future directions for optimization and integration into smart grids.