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The application of quality control charts for identifying changes in time-series home energy data

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posted on 2020-03-30, 10:24 authored by JL Vivancos, Richard BuswellRichard Buswell, Paula Cosar-Jorda, C Aparicio-Fernández
© 2020 Energy consumption in the home is heavily influenced by the occupants and the routines they adopt. Although these routines tend to be regarded as somewhat static in nature, more recent evidence from the social sciences suggests that patterns of consumption are actually more fluid and constantly evolve to accommodate the contingencies of everyday living. This makes detecting changes in patterns of activity and their impact on energy consumption difficult, particularly when these patterns are often invisible to the householder to begin with. Being able to identify when a change occurs, therefore, could be a powerful tool to establish the context of change and so to determine more appropriate corrective action to curb waste and create opportunities for greater flexibility in consumption. The growing adoption of smart meters and home energy monitoring provide a platform for numerical approaches, yet there is little work reported in the literature and none that have attempted to evaluate effectiveness of such methods applied to detect changes in behaviour using field monitoring data from family homes. This paper reports on the application of a Change Point Detection method based on statistical quality control charts applied to identify changes in activities a family home using typical monitoring data. The approach was found to be very effective, identifying 78% of the changes that occurred over a two-year period and hence the outlook for such methods is promising. The findings suggest that such techniques could significantly improve the quality of information provided in energy feedback and so could play a significant role in the pursuit of more efficient energy use in the home by adding value to monitoring systems and services.

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LEEDR: Low Effort Energy DEmand Reduction : EP/I000267/1

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Energy and Buildings

Volume

215

Publisher

Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© Elsevier

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Energy and Buildings and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109841

Acceptance date

2020-02-06

Publication date

2020-02-07

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

0378-7788

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Richard Buswell. Deposit date: 30 March 2020

Article number

109841

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