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Towards an understanding of campus-scale power consumption

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Commercial buildings are significant consumers of electricity. In this paper, we collect and analyze six weeks of data from 39 power meters in three buildings of a campus of a large company. We use an unsupervised anomaly detection technique based on a low-dimensional embedding to identify power saving opportunities. Further, to better manage resources such as lighting and HVAC, we develop occupancy models based on readily available port-level network logs. We propose a semi-supervised approach that combines hidden Markov models (HMM) with standard classifiers such as naive Bayes and support vector machines (SVM). This two step approach simplifies the occupancy model while achieving good accuracy. The experimental results over ten office cubicles show that the maximum error is less than 15% with an average error of 9.3%. We demonstrate that using our occupancy models, we can potentially reduce the lighting load on one floor (about 45 kW) by about 9.5%.

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    BuildSys '11: Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings
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    1. anomaly detection
    2. commercial buildings
    3. occupancy modeling
    4. power consumption

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