Data Analytics of Building Automation Systems: A Case Study

UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Gulustan Dogan (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/

Abstract: In today’s technology, when costs of time, energy and human resources are considered, efficient use of resources providessignificant advantages over many aspects. In light of this, role of building automation systems, which are a part of smart cities, becomeeven more important. At the very core of building automation systems there lies the efficient use of resources and systems for providingcomfortable living situations. With the advancement in network technology, systems can be programmed smartly and any malfunctions onthe systems can be detected and fixed remotely. In addition to that, all data gathered during this process can be analyzed to create machine learning solutions for a system to control and program itself. In this document we are presenting a Web application offering features ofdata analysis and most importantly predictive modeling in the context of building data energy management. As of today, the implementationis made from a CUNY building at John Jay College and contains thousands of data collected from hundreds of sensors over a period oftwo years, and regularly updated. That is a particular context but the tool can easily be adapted to any type of data environment based ontime series. The system articulates around three concepts: visualization, and predicting statistics and forecasting. Visualization is madepossible with powerful widgets, and statistics and forecasting based on Python modules. The web client server architecture has severalpurposes, including, of course, the ones related to any web application, but what is most important it allows transparency between users;every user being able to see each other works. Overall, the originality of this application comes from its high degree of customization:indeed it contains an on-the-fly python interpreter ready to be used with the data, itself encapsulated inside a python object. Therefore, allkind of formulation is allowed to be immediately displayed. The forecasting part is versatile as well, and it sits on python machine learningfeatures, but adapted to manipulate time series.

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Publication
DOGAN, G. (2018). DATA ANALYTICS OF BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 6(2), 123–137. https://doi.org/10.18201/ijisae.2018642071
Language: English
Date: 2018
Keywords
Big data, Machine Learning

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