A three-year dataset supporting research on building energy management and occupancy analytics
Catalog Summary
"A high-resolution, three-year dataset from a real office building, integrating whole-building/end-use energy consumption, HVAC system data, environmental parameters, and ground-truth occupant counts. Essential for research in smart building energy prediction, optimization, and occupancy analytics."
Catalog Notes
This comprehensive dataset was curated to support advanced research in smart building energy management. It captures the complex interplay between energy use, building systems, and human occupancy in a medium-sized office building constructed in 2015.
Key Features & Applications:
- Data Richness: Over 300 sensors collected data on electricity consumption (whole-building and end-use), HVAC operating conditions, indoor/outdoor temperatures, and precise occupant counts via cameras and WiFi proxies.
- Temporal Scope: Includes two years of pre-pandemic operation (2018-2019) and one year impacted by COVID-19 (2020), offering unique insights into pandemic effects on building energy patterns.
- Research Applications: Designed for building energy benchmarking, load shape analysis, energy and occupancy prediction, HVAC model predictive control (MPC) validation, and fault detection diagnostics.
- Data Quality: Underwent a rigorous three-step curation process: data cleaning, metadata modeling using the Brick schema, and representation via a semantic JSON schema for high quality and usability.
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Luo, N., Wang, Z., Blum, D., Weyandt, C., Granderson, J., Spanos, C. J., & Hong, T. (2022). A three-year dataset supporting research on building energy management and occupancy analytics. Scientific Data, 9(1), 156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01257-x
Source metadata: Nature Portfolio (2022) · DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01257-x
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