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Title: Mining Building Energy Management System Data Using Fuzzy Anomaly Detection and Linguistic Descriptions

Abstract

Building Energy Management Systems (BEMSs) are essential components of modern buildings that utilize digital control technologies to minimize energy consumption while maintaining high levels of occupant comfort. However, BEMSs can only achieve these energy savings when properly tuned and controlled. Since indoor environment is dependent on uncertain criteria such as weather, occupancy, and thermal state, performance of BEMS can be sub-optimal at times. Unfortunately, the complexity of BEMS control mechanism, the large amount of data available and inter-relations between the data can make identifying these sub-optimal behaviors difficult. This paper proposes a novel Fuzzy Anomaly Detection and Linguistic Description (Fuzzy-ADLD) based method for improving the understandability of BEMS behavior for improved state-awareness. The presented method is composed of two main parts: 1) detection of anomalous BEMS behavior and 2) linguistic representation of BEMS behavior. The first part utilizes modified nearest neighbor clustering algorithm and fuzzy logic rule extraction technique to build a model of normal BEMS behavior. The second part of the presented method computes the most relevant linguistic description of the identified anomalies. The presented Fuzzy-ADLD method was applied to real-world BEMS system and compared against a traditional alarm based BEMS. In six different scenarios, the Fuzzy-ADLD method identifiedmore » anomalous behavior either as fast as or faster (an hour or more), that the alarm based BEMS. In addition, the Fuzzy-ADLD method identified cases that were missed by the alarm based system, demonstrating potential for increased state-awareness of abnormal building behavior.« less

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Research Org.:
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1156912
Report Number(s):
INL/JOU-14-31800
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Transactions on Industrial Informatics; Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 42 ENGINEERING; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Anomaly Detection, Building Energy Management Sys

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Dumidu Wijayasekara, Ondrej Linda, Milos Manic, and Craig Rieger. Mining Building Energy Management System Data Using Fuzzy Anomaly Detection and Linguistic Descriptions. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1109/TII.2014.2328291.
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Dumidu Wijayasekara, Ondrej Linda, Milos Manic, & Craig Rieger. Mining Building Energy Management System Data Using Fuzzy Anomaly Detection and Linguistic Descriptions. United States. doi:10.1109/TII.2014.2328291.
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Dumidu Wijayasekara, Ondrej Linda, Milos Manic, and Craig Rieger. Fri . "Mining Building Energy Management System Data Using Fuzzy Anomaly Detection and Linguistic Descriptions". United States. doi:10.1109/TII.2014.2328291.
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@article{osti_1156912,
title = {Mining Building Energy Management System Data Using Fuzzy Anomaly Detection and Linguistic Descriptions},
author = {Dumidu Wijayasekara and Ondrej Linda and Milos Manic and Craig Rieger},
abstractNote = {Building Energy Management Systems (BEMSs) are essential components of modern buildings that utilize digital control technologies to minimize energy consumption while maintaining high levels of occupant comfort. However, BEMSs can only achieve these energy savings when properly tuned and controlled. Since indoor environment is dependent on uncertain criteria such as weather, occupancy, and thermal state, performance of BEMS can be sub-optimal at times. Unfortunately, the complexity of BEMS control mechanism, the large amount of data available and inter-relations between the data can make identifying these sub-optimal behaviors difficult. This paper proposes a novel Fuzzy Anomaly Detection and Linguistic Description (Fuzzy-ADLD) based method for improving the understandability of BEMS behavior for improved state-awareness. The presented method is composed of two main parts: 1) detection of anomalous BEMS behavior and 2) linguistic representation of BEMS behavior. The first part utilizes modified nearest neighbor clustering algorithm and fuzzy logic rule extraction technique to build a model of normal BEMS behavior. The second part of the presented method computes the most relevant linguistic description of the identified anomalies. The presented Fuzzy-ADLD method was applied to real-world BEMS system and compared against a traditional alarm based BEMS. In six different scenarios, the Fuzzy-ADLD method identified anomalous behavior either as fast as or faster (an hour or more), that the alarm based BEMS. In addition, the Fuzzy-ADLD method identified cases that were missed by the alarm based system, demonstrating potential for increased state-awareness of abnormal building behavior.},
doi = {10.1109/TII.2014.2328291},
journal = {Transactions on Industrial Informatics},
number = 3,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}
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