Browsing by Subject "Smart buildings"

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    A methodology for energy multivariate time series forecasting in smart buildings based on feature selection
    (Elsevier, 2019-05-10) González Vidal, Aurora; Jiménez Barrionuevo, Fernando; Skarmeta Gómez, Antonio; Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Informática
    The massive collection of data via emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) requires finding optimal ways to reduce the created features that have a potential impact on the information that can be extracted through the machine learning process. The mining of knowledge related to a concept is done on the basis of the features of data. The process of finding the best combination of features is called feature selection. In this paper we deal with multivariate time-dependent series of data points for energy forecasting in smart buildings. We propose a methodology to transform the time-dependent database into a structure that standard machine learning algorithms can process, and then, apply different types of feature selection methods for regression tasks. We used Weka for the tasks of database transformation, feature selection, regression, statistical test and forecasting. The proposed methodology improves MAE by 59.97% and RMSE by 40.75%, evaluated on training data, and it improves MAE by 42.28% and RMSE by 36.62%, evaluated on test data, on average for 1-step-ahead, 2-step-ahead and 3-step-ahead when compared to not applying any feature selection methodology.
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    A Transfer Learning Framework for predictive energy-related scenarios in Smart Buildings
    (IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2023-02-01) González Vidal, Aurora; Niu, Shuteng; Song, Houbing; Skarmeta Gómez, Antonio; Mendoza Bernal, José; Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Informática
    Human activities and city routines follow patterns. Transfer learning can help achieve scalable solutions towards the realisation of smart cities accounting for similarities between regions, domains, and activities. In this study, we propose a Transfer Learning-based framework for smart buildings to test this hypothesis in energy-related problems. Our framework has two major components: the network creation and the transferable predictive model. In order to create the network that groups buildings sharing characteristics, we evaluated two strategies: a novel clustering algorithm for mixed data, k-prod, and clustering the image-based representation of time series. Then, a combination of Long Short Term Memory and Convolutional Neural Network was trained on the centroids of the clusters for energy consumption prediction. The Coefficient of Variation of the Root Mean Squared Error (CVRMSE) of the predictions in such clusters vary between 3.85 and 58.85 %. The obtained parameters were transferred to the rest of the buildings for predictive purposes, finding accurate results in buildings with little data. Our framework deals with insufficient training data since parameters from scenarios with more sensors can be received. It also carries out state-of-the-art performance on 3 datasets from different sources having in total 533 rooms/buildings and two energy efficiency domains: consumption prediction reducing the CVRMSE in a 21.6 %, and air conditioning usage prediction moving from a 4.18 % to a 0.28% CVRMSE. Our framework extracts more knowledge from available IoT deployments, so that smartness could be spread between environments at a fewer cost given that less individual effort will be needed.
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    A soft computing based location-aware access control for smart buildings
    (2014-06-07) Hernández Ramos, José Luis; Jara Valera, Antonio Jesús; Gómez Skarmeta, Antonio Fernando; Moreno Cano, María Victoria; Ingeniería de la Información y las Comunicaciones