Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions

<p dir="ltr">In the last decade, extended efforts have been poured into energy efficiency. Several energy consumption datasets were henceforth published, with each dataset varying in properties, uses and limitations. For instance, building energy consumption patterns are sourced from...

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Main Author: Yassine Himeur (14158821) (author)
Other Authors: Abdullah Alsalemi (6951986) (author), Faycal Bensaali (12427401) (author), Abbes Amira (6952001) (author)
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Electrical engineering
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Building power consumption datasets
Energy efficiency
Dataset collection
Recommender systems
Micro-moments
Visualization
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description <p dir="ltr">In the last decade, extended efforts have been poured into energy efficiency. Several energy consumption datasets were henceforth published, with each dataset varying in properties, uses and limitations. For instance, building energy consumption patterns are sourced from several sources, including ambient conditions, user occupancy, weather conditions and consumer preferences. Thus, a proper understanding of the available datasets will result in a strong basis for improving energy efficiency. Starting from the necessity of a comprehensive review of existing databases, this work is proposed to survey, study and visualize the numerical and methodological nature of building energy consumption datasets. A total of thirty-one databases are examined and compared in terms of several features, such as the geographical location, period of collection, number of monitored households, sampling rate of collected data, number of sub-metered appliances, extracted features and release date. Furthermore, data collection platforms and related modules for data transmission, data storage and privacy concerns used in different datasets are also analyzed and compared. Based on the analytical study, a novel dataset has been presented, namely Qatar university dataset, which is an annotated power consumption anomaly detection dataset. The latter will be very useful for testing and training anomaly detection algorithms, and hence reducing wasted energy. Moving forward, a set of recommendations is derived to improve datasets collection, such as the adoption of multi-modal data collection, smart Internet of things data collection, low-cost hardware platforms and privacy and security mechanisms. In addition, future directions to improve datasets exploitation and utilization are identified, including the use of novel machine learning solutions, innovative visualization tools and explainable mobile recommender systems. Accordingly, a novel visualization strategy based on using power consumption micro-moments has been presented along with an example of deploying machine learning algorithms to classify the micro-moment classes and identify anomalous power usage.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Energy and Buildings<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110404" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110404</a></p>
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spelling Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directionsYassine Himeur (14158821)Abdullah Alsalemi (6951986)Faycal Bensaali (12427401)Abbes Amira (6952001)EngineeringElectrical engineeringInformation and computing sciencesData management and data scienceBuilding power consumption datasetsEnergy efficiencyDataset collectionRecommender systemsMicro-momentsVisualization<p dir="ltr">In the last decade, extended efforts have been poured into energy efficiency. Several energy consumption datasets were henceforth published, with each dataset varying in properties, uses and limitations. For instance, building energy consumption patterns are sourced from several sources, including ambient conditions, user occupancy, weather conditions and consumer preferences. Thus, a proper understanding of the available datasets will result in a strong basis for improving energy efficiency. Starting from the necessity of a comprehensive review of existing databases, this work is proposed to survey, study and visualize the numerical and methodological nature of building energy consumption datasets. A total of thirty-one databases are examined and compared in terms of several features, such as the geographical location, period of collection, number of monitored households, sampling rate of collected data, number of sub-metered appliances, extracted features and release date. Furthermore, data collection platforms and related modules for data transmission, data storage and privacy concerns used in different datasets are also analyzed and compared. Based on the analytical study, a novel dataset has been presented, namely Qatar university dataset, which is an annotated power consumption anomaly detection dataset. The latter will be very useful for testing and training anomaly detection algorithms, and hence reducing wasted energy. Moving forward, a set of recommendations is derived to improve datasets collection, such as the adoption of multi-modal data collection, smart Internet of things data collection, low-cost hardware platforms and privacy and security mechanisms. In addition, future directions to improve datasets exploitation and utilization are identified, including the use of novel machine learning solutions, innovative visualization tools and explainable mobile recommender systems. Accordingly, a novel visualization strategy based on using power consumption micro-moments has been presented along with an example of deploying machine learning algorithms to classify the micro-moment classes and identify anomalous power usage.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Energy and Buildings<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110404" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110404</a></p>2020-11-15T00:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110404https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Building_power_consumption_datasets_Survey_taxonomy_and_future_directions/24249898CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/242498982020-11-15T00:00:00Z
spellingShingle Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
Yassine Himeur (14158821)
Engineering
Electrical engineering
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Building power consumption datasets
Energy efficiency
Dataset collection
Recommender systems
Micro-moments
Visualization
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title Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
title_full Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
title_fullStr Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
title_full_unstemmed Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
title_short Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
title_sort Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
topic Engineering
Electrical engineering
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Building power consumption datasets
Energy efficiency
Dataset collection
Recommender systems
Micro-moments
Visualization