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Occupant-centric miscellaneous electric loads prediction in buildings using state-of-the-art deep learning methods

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  • Das, Anooshmita
  • Annaqeeb, Masab Khalid
  • Azar, Elie
  • Novakovic, Vojislav
  • Kjærgaard, Mikkel Baun

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Buildings have emerged as one of the dominant sectors when it comes to worldwide energy consumption. While a large portion of this consumption is due to the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) loads, a significant portion is contributed through the use of standard equipment, also known as Miscellaneous Electric Loads (MEL). It is necessary to understand the consumption patterns to optimize the MELs of the occupants using the building and conduct accurate forecasts for building energy management. One of the methods to achieve that purpose is the employment of Deep Learning (DL) methods. This study provides an analysis using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model as a baseline for predicting MELs. The predictions were conducted for a day-ahead and a week-ahead period. Furthermore, the results from the baseline model were then used in a comparative analysis with two other state-of-the-art DL models; Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU).

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  • Das, Anooshmita & Annaqeeb, Masab Khalid & Azar, Elie & Novakovic, Vojislav & Kjærgaard, Mikkel Baun, 2020. "Occupant-centric miscellaneous electric loads prediction in buildings using state-of-the-art deep learning methods," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 269(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:269:y:2020:i:c:s0306261920306474
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115135
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