Abstract
Energy use of buildings represents roughly 40% of the overall energy consumption. Most of the national agendas contain goals related to reducing the energy consumption and carbon footprint. Timely and accurate fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) in building management systems (BMS) have the potential to reduce energy consumption cost by approximately 15-30%. Most of the FDD methods are data-based, meaning that their performance is tightly linked to the quality and availability of relevant data. Based on our experience, faults and relevant events data is very sparse and inadequate, mostly because of the lack of will and incentive for those that would need to keep track of faults. In this paper we introduce the idea of using crowdsourcing to support FDD data collection processes, and illustrate our idea through a mobile application that has been implemented for this purpose. Furthermore, we propose a strategy of how to successfully deploy this building occupants' crowdsourcing application. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2016 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, RACS 2016 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 12-17 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450344555 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 11 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2016 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, RACS 2016 - Odense, Denmark Duration: Oct 11 2016 → Oct 14 2016 |
Other
| Other | 2016 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, RACS 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | Denmark |
| City | Odense |
| Period | 10/11/16 → 10/14/16 |
Keywords
- Buildings
- Crowdsourcing
- Data collection
- Energy performance
- Fault detection and diagnosis
- Occupants
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Computer Science(all)
