A dynamic anomaly detection method of building energy consumption based on data mining technology

Due to the equipment failure and inappropriate operation strategy, it is often difficult to achieve energy-efficient building. Anomaly detection of building energy consumption is one of the important approaches to improve building energy-saving. The great amounts of energy consumption data collected by building energy monitoring platforms (BEMS) provides potentials in using data mining technology for anomaly detection. This study pro-poses a dynamic anomaly detection algorithm for building energy consumption data, which realizes the dynamic detection of point anomalies and collective anomalies. The algorithm integrates unsupervised clustering algo-rithm with supervised algorithm to establish a semi-supervised matching mechanism, which avoids the influence of error label and improves the efficiency of anomaly detection. A particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to optimize the unsupervised clustering algorithm. This investigation tests the effectiveness of the proposed algo-rithm and evaluates the performance of the energy consumption clustering algorithm by using the annual electricity consumption data of an experimental building in a university. The results show that the clustering accuracy of the algorithm can reach more than 80%, and it can effectively detect the building energy con-sumption data of two different forms of outliers. It can provide reliable data support for adjusting building management strategies.