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A systematic procedure to study the influence of occupant behavior on building energy consumption

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A systematic procedure to study the influence of occupant behavior on building energy consumption

Yu, Zhun, Fung, Benjamin C.M., Haghighat, Fariborz, Yoshino, Hiroshi and Morofsky, Edward (2011) A systematic procedure to study the influence of occupant behavior on building energy consumption. Energy and Buildings, 43 (6). pp. 1409-1417. ISSN 03787788

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.02.002

Abstract

Efforts have been devoted to the identification of the impacts of occupant behavior on building energy consumption. Various factors influence building energy consumption at the same time, leading to the lack of precision when identifying the individual effects of occupant behavior. This paper reports the development of a new methodology for examining the influences of occupant behavior on building energy consumption; the method is based on a basic data mining technique (cluster analysis). To deal with data inconsistencies, min–max normalization is performed as a data preprocessing step before clustering. Grey relational grades, a measure of relevancy between two factors, are used as weighted coefficients of different attributes in cluster analysis. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method, the method was applied to a set of residential buildings’ measurement data. The results show that the method facilitates the evaluation of building energy-saving potential by improving the behavior of building occupants, and provides multifaceted insights into building energy end-use patterns associated with the occupant behavior. The results obtained could help prioritize efforts at modification of occupant behavior in order to reduce building energy consumption, and help improve modeling of occupant behavior in numerical simulation.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Authors:Yu, Zhun and Fung, Benjamin C.M. and Haghighat, Fariborz and Yoshino, Hiroshi and Morofsky, Edward
Journal or Publication:Energy and Buildings
Date:2011
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.02.002
Keywords:Occupant behavior, Building energy consumption, Data mining, Cluster analysis, Grey relational analysis
ID Code:36255
Deposited By: DAVID MACAULAY
Deposited On:22 Dec 2011 21:13
Last Modified:18 Jan 2018 17:36
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