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Today the wide and increasing implementation of smart meters on the household level is making it possible to better know the use of electricity by residential consumers. This contributes to improving the quality of the services provided to the consumers and also developing new strategies for planning and operation by the power grid managers. This paper analyses the discovering of patterns in the use...