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Title: | Occupancy data at different spatial resolutions: Building energy performance and model calibration | Authors: | Chong, Adrian Augenbroe, Godfried Yan, Da |
Keywords: | Science & Technology Technology Energy & Fuels Engineering, Chemical Engineering Occupant modeling Building performance simulation Building simulation Bayesian calibration Uncertainty analysis |
Issue Date: | 15-Mar-2021 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Citation: | Chong, Adrian, Augenbroe, Godfried, Yan, Da (2021-03-15). Occupancy data at different spatial resolutions: Building energy performance and model calibration. APPLIED ENERGY 286. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116492 | Abstract: | Occupancy is a significant area of interest within the field of building performance simulation. Through Bayesian calibration, the present study investigates the impact of the availability of different spatial resolution of occupancy data on the gap between predicted and measured energy use in buildings. The study also examines the effect of occupancy data on the quality of the constructed prediction intervals (PIs) using the Coverage Width-based Criterion (CWC) metric. CWC evaluates the PIs based on both their coverage (correctness) and width (informativeness). This investigation takes the form of an actual building case study, with nine months of hourly measured building electricity use, WiFi connection counts as a proxy for occupancy, and actual weather data. In general, the building energy model's accuracy improves with the occupancy and plug-loads schedule derived from WiFi data. Specifically, the Coefficient of Variation Root Mean Square Error (CV[RMSE]) reduced from 37% to 24% with an exponential improvement in the PIs quality compared to the results obtained with ASHRAE 90.1 reference schedules. However, the increase in prediction accuracy shrank to 5% CV(RMSE) and a comparable CWC upon calibrating the base loads of the reference schedules. Increasing the spatial resolution from building aggregated to floor aggregated occupancy data worsened the CV(RMSE) and CWC, suggesting trade-offs between parameter uncertainty and model bias/inadequacy. These results contribute to our understanding of the interactions between model complexity, simulation objectives, and data informativeness, facilitating future discussions on the right level of abstraction when modeling occupancy. | Source Title: | APPLIED ENERGY | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/191881 | ISSN: | 03062619 18729118 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116492 |
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