A sizeable challenge in the energy disaggregation community is that of comparing NILM algorithms from different researchers. In other words, if we have two papers, and one paper reports an accuracy of 80%, and another reports an accuracy of 85% then we cannot infer that the second paper is better because the authors used different datasets, different pre-processing etc. Hence we are working on a project proposal for the consideration of Imperial Computer Science MSc students. If a group of students selects the project then they’ll work on it for the duration of next term. Here’s the full, draft project specification. Comments most welcome!