Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Vishnu Brindavanam

Mariswamy Girish Chandra

Naveen Kumar Thokala

Spoorthy Paresh

Power consumption forecasting plays a key role in the efficient operation of a building energy management system to assess energy demands of building, and at the same time, help electrical utilities in planning their supply operations. However, no state-of-the-arts are available for forecasting medium-term or long-term power consumption of the buildings. This disclosure relates to a method and system for forecasting a power consumption of buildings for a scalable forecast horizon. The system is configured to pre-process to deal with outliers/missing values, followed by synchronization of smart meter data with other sensory data. An energy-temperature correlation is calculated to estimate an energy drift using historical power consumptions. Further, in feature derivation stage, additional features necessary for the forecast are derived. The system is to be employed for modeling the building load consumption that depends on the time horizon of forecasting and the granularity of the data.

Method and system for forecasting building power consumption

Energy consumption modelling requires to consider various factors affecting the energy consumption in buildings, to be able to effectively forecast future consumption. Even though some of the state of the art deep learning based approaches are able to address these requirements to some extent, they are computationally heavy. The disclosure herein generally relates to energy forecasting, and, more particularly, to a method and system for graph signal processing (GSP) based energy modelling and forecasting. The system monitors and collects information on energy consumption in a building and values of associated energy consumption parameters. This input data is further processed using GSP to generate a building energy consumption model, from which a smooth signal is obtained by applying total variation minimization. The system further performs forecasting using the smooth signal.

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

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