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A limited-data model of building energy consumption

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We present a model targeted at practical, wide-scale deployment which produces an ongoing breakdown of building energy consumption. We argue that wide-scale deployment is practical due to its reliance only on commonly available sensor information and crowd-sourced inventory data. The results for our own building over the previous 10 months show many of the trends seen in the building's true, me-tered energy consumption and we find our model predicts long term averages within 10% of the true value in some scenarios. We further use our model to estimate the potential impact of some energy saving scenarios.

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      BuildSys '10: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Building
      November 2010
      93 pages
      ISBN:9781450304580
      DOI:10.1145/1878431

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