Real-Time Anomaly Detection of Electricity Time Series Data Based on Future-Guidance Network

Electricity data plays a pivotal role in power management systems. Smart meters, as key tools for recording this data, often encounter anomalies due to meter malfunctions, operational errors, or unauthorized electricity usage, all of which jeopardize the stability of power grids. To this end, we propose the future-guidance anomaly detection network, called FG-Net, designed for real-time analysis of electricity time series data. FG-Net is designed to memorize historical data and assimilate future data, ensuring comprehensive learning of complete data information. Specifically, we leverage the comprehensive data insights gained from a complete information network to guide the predictions of the historical information network. Subsequently, we developed a self-matching feature guidance (SFG) strategy that harnesses the strengths of the complete information network to offset the limitations of the historical information network, thus providing effective guidance. The experimental results on two power grid time series datasets with different anomaly volatility, the Low Carbon London dataset and the Ausgrid Solar Home dataset, demonstrate the proposed anomaly detection method’s accuracy and efficiency.