Justus Breyer, M.Sc.

Justus Breyer, M.Sc.

Researcher

Ahornstraße 55, building E3 52074 Aachen Germany
9004
+49 241 80-21416
justus.breyer@comsys.rwth-aachen.de

Overview

I joined COMSYS in April 2022 after completing my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University.

Research

As a member of our Cyber-Physical Systems group, my research interests include resilience and precision of sensor networks. My current focus lies in the area of smart home and home monitoring, with the goal to find reasonable compromises between intrusiveness, reliability, accuracy, efficiency, simplicity, (monetary) cost and maintenance overhead of the setup(s). Research projects of mine typically involve sensor setups, sensor networking and data collection, (pre-)processing, analysis and interpretation. If you are interested in working with me or writing a thesis, please contact me via E-mail.

Teaching

Publications

Advanced Filtering of Unknown Devices in Event-Based NILM. ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review (SIGENERGY-EIR), vol. 4, no. 5. April 2025.
A Critical Review of Household Water Datasets. Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2024), Hangzhou City, China. November 2024.
Investigating Domain Bias in NILM. Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2024), Hangzhou City, China. November 2024.

Advised Theses

Please note that ongoing theses are only visible from within the RWTH network. If you are not affiliated with RWTH Aachen University and you are interested in our topics, please contact us.

A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2025
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Wil van der Aalst (PADS)
A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2025
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Simon Völker (i10)
A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2025
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Stefan Kowalewski (i11)
A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2025
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Sandra Geisler (DSMA)
A Topic in Sensor Placement Optimization
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2024
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Wil van der Aalst (PADS)
A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, August 2024
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Wil van der Aalst (PADS)
Unsupervised Water Monitoring in Office Buildings
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2024
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Michael Schaub (NetSci)
A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2024
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Wil van der Aalst (PADS)
Single Point Sensing for Accurate Presence Detection in Office Buildings
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2024
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2024
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Wil van der Aalst (PADS)
A Topic in Energy Disaggregation
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, December 2023
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Wil van der Aalst (PADS)
Improving Usability, Privacy and Maintainability of Self-Checkout-Terminals
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2023
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Stefan Decker (i5)
Ultrasonic Water Activity Monitoring on the Edge
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2023
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Stefan Kowalewski (i11)
Novelty Detection in NILM Using Machine Learning
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2023
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Michael Schaub (NetSci)
Combining Unintrusive Water Monitoring Metrics
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, July 2023
Advisor: Justus Breyer
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Wil van der Aalst (PADS)
On the Utility of NILM Datasets for Model Training
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, May 2023
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Sandra Geisler (DSMA)
Traffic Ahead: Basing Internet Routing Decisions on Cross-Domain Insights
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, January 2023
Examiners: Klaus Wehrle, Martin Grohe (i7)