2012 FollowingtheElectronsMethodsfor

• (Bellala et al., 2012) ⇒ Gowtham Bellala, Manish Marwah, Martin Arlitt, Geoff Lyon, and Cullen Bash. (2012). “Following the Electrons: Methods for Power Management in Commercial Buildings.” In: Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2012). ISBN:978-1-4503-1462-6 doi:10.1145/2339530.2339685

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• Anomaly detection; commercial buildings; meter placement; miscellaneous; occupancy modeling; power management

Abstract

Commercial buildings are significant consumers of electricity. The first step towards better energy management in commercial buildings is monitoring consumption. However, instrumenting every electrical panel in a large commercial building is expensive and wasteful. In this paper, we propose a greedy meter (sensor) placement algorithm based on maximization of information gained, subject to a cost constraint. The algorithm provides a near-optimal solution guarantee. Furthermore, to identify power saving opportunities, we use an unsupervised anomaly detection technique based on a low-dimensional embedding. Further, to better manage resources such as lighting and HVAC, we propose a semi-supervised approach combining hidden Markov models (HMM) and a standard classifier to model occupancy based on readily available port-level network statistics.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2012 FollowingtheElectronsMethodsfor	Manish Marwah Gowtham Bellala Martin Arlitt Geoff Lyon Cullen Bash			Following the Electrons: Methods for Power Management in Commercial Buildings				10.1145/2339530.2339685		2012