| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention relates to methods of analyzing utility usage and specifically to a system and a method which develops descriptors to accurately classify and predict an individual user's or group of users (120) usage of a utility resource. Generally, the invention comprises a method for accurately estimating the usage of a utility by a specific customer, or set of customers. Detailed electricaly energy usage records (105), previously collected from a large representative sample of customers, are used to train an intelligent system. The system identifies the key characteristics (135) which lead to a particular customer having a particular usage pattern, and uses these characteristic values as predictors for determining the usage patters of new or prospective customers.</p> |
