“…Introducing intelligence into devices, by modelling their usage, creating so-called intelligent products, is one avenue to achieve energy savings. Examples are found in a variety of application areas such as smart heating systems [2,12,17,24,33,36,38,39,41,43,53,64], which already found their way to the market (e.g. Nest, Heat Genius, Anna), appliance usage forecasting [3,4,8,20,29,51,60,67], dynamic power management [35,45,46,55], smart charging of electric vehicles [28,37] and fault detection [7,40,49,68].…”