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AuthorHimeur, Yassine
AuthorAlsalemi, Abdullah
AuthorBensaali, Faycal
AuthorAmira, Abbes
Available date2022-12-29T07:34:41Z
Publication Date2020
Publication NameEnergy and Buildings
ResourceScopus
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110404
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/37790
AbstractIn 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. 2020 The Authors
SponsorThis paper was made possible by National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) Grant No. 10-0130-170288 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors. Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library
Languageen
PublisherElsevier
SubjectBuilding power consumption datasets
Dataset collection
Energy efficiency
Micro-moments
Recommender systems
Visualization
TitleBuilding power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions
TypeArticle Review
Volume Number227


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