Characterization of electric load with Information Theory quantifiers

This paper presents a study of the electric load behavior based on the Causality Complexity-Entropy Plane. We use a public data set, namely REDD, which contains detailed power usage information from several domestic appliances. In our characterization, we use the available power data of the circuit/devices of all houses. The Bandt-Pompe methodology combined with the Causality Complexity-Entropy Plane was used to identify and characterize regimes and behaviors over these data. The results showed that this characterization provides a useful insight into the underlying dynamics that govern the electric load.