Assessment of the Impact of Using a Smart Thermostat and Smart Meter Data on a Whole-Building Energy Simulation

Sukjoon Oh, Juan-Carlos Baltazar and Jeff S. Haberl
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Sukjoon Oh: Department of Building Research, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Goyang-si 10223, Korea
Juan-Carlos Baltazar: Energy Systems Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Bryan, TX 77807, USA
Jeff S. Haberl: Energy Systems Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Bryan, TX 77807, USA

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-21

Abstract: Building energy simulation models have been used to assist the design and/or optimization of buildings energy performance. The results from building energy simulation models can be more reliable when measured energy use data, indoor environmental condition data, system operation status, and coincident weather data are used to validate the simulation results. In this paper, given the wide-spread use of home automation devices in residential buildings, we studied how well a residential building energy simulation model can be tuned using measured interval data from a smart thermostat and smart meter. The analysis is based on a multi-stage approach that can help improve the reliability of the use of building energy simulation models that reflect both the indoor air temperature and whole-building energy use. Results from changing the input parameters in the building simulation show that the comparison of the simulated and measured indoor temperatures fall in a range below a NMBE of 1.5% and a CV-RMSE of 2.2%, while the simulated whole-building energy use matches the measured energy use below a NMBE of −2.7% and a CV-RMSE of 10.9%. We found that the most significant parameters for the indoor air temperature and whole-building energy use were the effective U-value for the slab-on-grade floor and the heating and cooling system operation status, respectively.

Keywords: building energy simulation model; model tuning; smart thermostat data; smart meter data; smart greenhouse buildings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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