A Real-World Energy Management Dataset from a Smart Company Building for Optimization and Machine Learning
This provides a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in energy management, though it is incremental as it focuses on data collection rather than new methods.
The authors tackled the lack of real-world energy management data by presenting a six-year dataset from a smart company building, which includes energy consumption, production, and weather data, enabling methods like optimization and machine learning to reduce costs and emissions.
We present a large real-world dataset obtained from monitoring a smart company facility over the course of six years, from 2018 to 2023. The dataset includes energy consumption data from various facility areas and components, energy production data from a photovoltaic system and a combined heat and power plant, operational data from heating and cooling systems, and weather data from an on-site weather station. The measurement sensors installed throughout the facility are organized in a hierarchical metering structure with multiple sub-metering levels, which is reflected in the dataset. The dataset contains measurement data from 72 energy meters, 9 heat meters and a weather station. Both raw and processed data at different processing levels, including labeled issues, is available. In this paper, we describe the data acquisition and post-processing employed to create the dataset. The dataset enables the application of a wide range of methods in the domain of energy management, including optimization, modeling, and machine learning to optimize building operations and reduce costs and carbon emissions.