scholarly journals Enhancing Interpretability of Data-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnosis Methodology with Maintainability Rules in Smart Building Management

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-48
Author(s):  
Michael Yit Lin Chew ◽  
Ke Yan
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Fault Detection And Diagnosis ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Detection And Diagnosis

Data-driven fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) methods, referring to the newer generation of artificial intelligence (AI) empowered classification methods, such as data science analysis, big data, Internet of things (IoT), industry 4.0, etc., become increasingly important for facility management in the smart building design and smart city construction. While data-driven FDD methods nowadays outperform the majority of traditional FDD approaches, such as the physically based models and mathematically based models, in terms of both efficiency and accuracy, the interpretability of those methods does not grow significantly. Instead, according to the literature survey, the interpretability of the data-driven FDD methods becomes the main concern and creates barriers for those methods to be adopted in real-world industrial applications. In this study, we reviewed the existing data-driven FDD approaches for building mechanical & electrical engineering (M&E) services faults and discussed the interpretability of the modern data-driven FDD methods. Two data-driven FDD strategies integrating the expert reasoning of the faults were proposed. Lists of expert rules, knowledge of maintainability, international/local standards were concluded for various M&E services, including heating, ventilation air-conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, fire safety, electrical and elevator systems based on surveys of 110 buildings in Singapore. The surveyed results significantly enhance the interpretability of data-driven FDD methods for M&E services, potentially enhance the FDD performance in terms of accuracy and promote the data-driven FDD approaches to real-world facility management practices.

scholarly journals Development and Field Evaluation of Data-driven Whole Building Fault Detection and Diagnosis Strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yimin Chen ◽  
Jin Wen
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Field Evaluation ◽  
Fault Detection And Diagnosis ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Component Level ◽  
Automation Systems ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Detection And Diagnosis

Faults, i.e., malfunctioned sensors, components, control, and systems, in a building have significantly adverse impacts on the building’s energy consumption and indoor environment. To date, extensive research has been conducted on the development of component level fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) for building systems, especially the Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. However, for faults that have multi-system impacts, component level FDD tools may encounter high false alarm rate due to the fact that HVAC subsystems are often tightly coupled together. Hence, the detection and diagnosis of whole building faults is the focus of this study. Here, a whole building fault refers to a fault that occurs in one subsystem but triggers abnormalities in other subsystems and have significant adverse whole building energy impact. The wide adoption of building automation systems (BAS) and the development of machine learning techniques make it possible and cost-efficient to detect and diagnose whole building faults using data-driven methods. In this study, a whole building FDD strategy which adopts weather and schedule information based pattern matching (WPM) method and feature based Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) for fault detection, as well as Bayesian Networks (BNs) based method for fault diagnosis is developed. Fault tests are implemented in a real campus building. The collected data are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed whole building FDD strategies.

scholarly journals Relation Inference among Sensor Time Series in Smart Buildings with Metric Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 4683-4690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuheng Li ◽  
Dezhi Hong ◽  
Hongning Wang
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Demand Response ◽  
Real World ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Metric Learning ◽  
Fault Detection And Diagnosis ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Deep Metric Learning ◽  
Detection And Diagnosis

Smart Building Technologies hold promise for better livability for residents and lower energy footprints. Yet, the rollout of these technologies, from demand response controls to fault detection and diagnosis, significantly lags behind and is impeded by the current practice of manual identification of sensing point relationships, e.g., how equipment is connected or which sensors are co-located in the same space. This manual process is still error-prone, albeit costly and laborious.We study relation inference among sensor time series. Our key insight is that, as equipment is connected or sensors co-locate in the same physical environment, they are affected by the same real-world events, e.g., a fan turning on or a person entering the room, thus exhibiting correlated changes in their time series data. To this end, we develop a deep metric learning solution that first converts the primitive sensor time series to the frequency domain, and then optimizes a representation of sensors that encodes their relations. Built upon the learned representation, our solution pinpoints the relationships among sensors via solving a combinatorial optimization problem. Extensive experiments on real-world buildings demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution.

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