Analysis of Electricity Usage for Domestic Heating Based on an Air-to-Water Heat Pump in a Real World Context

Tabatabaei, Seyed Amin; Treur, Jan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16901-9_72

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“…However, it may be possible to figure out in which periods the energy is also used for water heating. In [17], the summer data (when no space heating is done) were used to find a patterns for daily water usage of a house. Then, this pattern is used to have estimation about the fraction of energy that is used for water/space heating.…”

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A Data Analysis Approach for Diagnosing Malfunctioning in Domestic Space Heating

Tabatabaei¹

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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Abstract-Around one third of worldwide energy usage is for the residential section and 60% of the energy consumption in this domestic area is for space heating. Therefore, monitoring and controlling this part of energy usage can have a major effect on the overall energy consumption and also on the emission of green house gases. Smart thermostats can play an important role in achieving more economic energy usage in the residential section. This paper shows an innovative way to use data collected by a relatively simple thermostat to estimate the thermal properties of a building. Moreover, it will be shown that in case of malfunctioning and high usage, this method can be used to firstly find out that there is a problem, and also to identify the cause of the problem. This information can be used as feedback to the resident to help him or her to discover the problem, and also point at the cause of it. Applying this idea in a smart thermostat or a mobile application with access to the data gathered by a simple thermostat can encourage residents to limit their energy usage for space heating. And in case of a problem that leads to an increase in energy usage, it can understand its occurrence and diagnose the cause.

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A Data Analysis Approach for Diagnosing Malfunctioning in Domestic Space Heating

Tabatabaei¹

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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“…However, it may be possible to figure out in which periods the energy is also used for sanitation water heating. In [27], the summer data (when no space heating is done) is used to find a pattern for daily hot water usage in a house. This pattern is used to have an estimation of the fraction of the energy that is used for water heating.…”

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A Data Analysis Technique to Estimate the Thermal Characteristics of a House

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Almost one third of the energy is used in the residential sector, and space heating is the largest part of energy consumption in our houses. Knowledge about the thermal characteristics of a house can increase the awareness of homeowners about the options to save energy, for example by showing that there is room for improvement of the insulation level. However, calculating the exact value of these characteristics is not possible without precise thermal experiments. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically estimate two of the most important thermal characteristics of a house, i.e., the loss rate and the heat capacity, based on collected data about the temperature and gas usage. The method is evaluated with a data set that has been collected in a real-life case study. Although a ground truth is lacking, the analyses show that there is evidence that this method could provide a feasible way to estimate those values from the thermostat data. More detailed data about the houses in which the data was collected is required to draw stronger conclusions. We conclude that the proposed method is a promising way to add energy saving advice to smart thermostats.

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Analysis of Electricity Usage for Domestic Heating Based on an Air-to-Water Heat Pump in a Real World Context

Cited by 2 publications

References 12 publications

A Data Analysis Approach for Diagnosing Malfunctioning in Domestic Space Heating

A Data Analysis Approach for Diagnosing Malfunctioning in Domestic Space Heating

A Data Analysis Technique to Estimate the Thermal Characteristics of a House

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