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  • A long short-term memory ar...
    Sendra-Arranz, R.; Gutiérrez, A.

    Energy and buildings, 06/2020, Letnik: 216
    Journal Article

    •Several HVAC system power consumption prediction systems are designed and implemented.•Long short-term memory neural networks to predict the next day of power consumption.•The systems implements low errors and optimal Pearson correlation coefficients between the predictions and the real consumption values.•Daily consumption predictions provide a powerful tool for Demand-Side Management techniques. In this paper, the design and implementation process of an artificial neural network based predictor to forecast a day ahead of the power consumption of a building HVAC system is presented. The featured HVAC system is situated at MagicBox, a real self-sufficient solar house with a monitoring system. Day ahead prediction of HVAC power consumption will remarkably enhance the Demand Side Management techniques based on appliance scheduling to reach defined goals. Several multi step prediction models, based on LSTM neural networks, are proposed. In addition, suitable data preprocessing and arrangement techniques are set to adapt the raw dataset. Considering the targeted prediction horizon, the models provide outstanding results in terms of test errors (NRMSE of 0.13) and correlation, between the temporal behavior of the predictions and test time series to be forecasted, of 0.797. Moreover, these results are compared to the simplified one hour ahead prediction that reaches nearly optimal test NRMSE of 0.052 and Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.972. These results provide an encouraging perspective for real-time energy consumption prediction in buildings.