Energy consumption

Control (management)

Engineering

Statistics

Support vector machine

Energy (signal processing)

Operating system

Data mining

Computer science

Cloud computing

Energy management

Thermodynamics

Physics

Mathematics

Sociology

Artificial intelligence

Building automation

Architectural engineering

Consumption (sociology)

Artificial neural network

Machine learning

Building management system

Electrical engineering

Social science

Developments in the Built Environment

Building Energy Management System (BEMS) has been a substantial topic nowadays due to its importance in reducing energy wastage. However, the performance of one of BEMS applications which is energy consumption prediction has been stagnant due to problems such as low prediction accuracy. Thus, this research aims to address the problems by developing a predictive model for energy consumption in Microsoft Azure cloud-based machine learning platform. Three methodologies which are Support Vector Machine, Artificial Neural Network, and k-Nearest Neighbour are proposed for the algorithm of the predictive model. Focusing on real-life application in Malaysia, two tenants from a commercial building are taken as a case study. The data collected is analysed and pre-processed before it is used for model training and testing. The performance of each of the methods is compared based on RMSE, NRMSE, and MAPE metrics. The experimentation shows that each tenant's energy consumption has different distribution characteristics.

Energy consumption prediction by using machine learning for smart building: Case study in Malaysia