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Occupant behaviour modelling in domestic buildings: the case of household electrical appliances
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posted on 2017-02-16, 11:13 authored by Selin Yilmaz, Steven FirthSteven Firth, David AllinsonDavid AllinsonThis paper presents a new approach to bottom-up stochastic occupant behaviour modelling for predicting the use of household electrical appliances in domestic buildings. Three metrics relating to appliance occupant behaviours are defined: the number of switch-on events per day, the switch-on times, and the duration of each appliance usage. The metrics were calculated for 1,076 appliances in 225 households from the UK Government’s Household Electricity Survey carried out in 2010-2011. The analysis shows that occupant behaviour varies substantially between households, across appliance types and over time. The new modelling approach improves on previous approaches by using a three step process where the three appliance occupant behaviour metrics are simulated respectively using stochastic processes to capture daily variations in appliance occupant behaviour. It uses probability and cumulative density functions based on individual households and appliances which are shown to have advantages for modelling the variations in appliance occupant behaviours.
Funding
This research was made possible by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) support for the London-Loughborough Centre for Doctoral Research in Energy Demand (Grant EP/H009612/1).
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
Journal of Building Performance SimulationVolume
10Issue
5-6Pages
582-600Citation
YILMAZ, S., FIRTH, S.K. and ALLINSON, D., 2017. Occupant behaviour modelling in domestic buildings: the case of household electrical appliances. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 10(5-6), pp.582-600.Publisher
Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group (© the authors)Version
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-01-24Publication date
2017-02-17Copyright date
2017Notes
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.ISSN
1940-1493eISSN
1940-1507Publisher version
Language
- en