Comparative Analysis of Data-Driven Algorithms for Building Energy Planning via Federated Learning

Mazhar Ali, Ankit Kumar Singh, Ajit Kumar, Syed Saqib Ali and Bong Jun Choi ()
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Mazhar Ali: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Ankit Kumar Singh: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Ajit Kumar: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Syed Saqib Ali: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Bong Jun Choi: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 18, 1-18

Abstract: Building energy planning is a challenging task in the current mounting climate change scenario because the sector accounts for a reasonable percentage of global end-use energy consumption, with a one-fifth share of global carbon emissions. Energy planners rely on physical model-based prediction tools to conserve energy and make decisions towards decreasing energy consumption. For precise forecasting, such a model requires the collection of an enormous number of input variables, which is time-consuming because not all the parameters are easily available. Utilities are reluctant to share retrievable consumer information because of growing concerns regarding data leakage and competitive energy markets. Federated learning (FL) provides an effective solution by providing privacy preserving distributed training to relieve the computational burden and security concerns associated with centralized vanilla learning. Therefore, we aimed to comparatively analyze the effectiveness of several data-driven prediction algorithms for learning patterns from data-efficient buildings to predict the hourly consumption of the building sector in centralized and FL setups. The results provided comparable insights for predicting building energy consumption in a distributed setup and for generalizing to diverse clients. Moreover, such research can benefit energy designers by allowing them to use appropriate algorithms via transfer learning on data of similar features and to learn personalized models in meta-learning approaches.

Keywords: federated learning; building energy management; load forecasting; data-driven algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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