Foresight in Facilities: Deciphering Building Anomalies Through Advanced Machine Learning
2026 (English)In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Frontiers in Buildings and Infrastructure: DFBI2025, 11-13 June, Delft, The Netherlands / [ed] Farzad Rahimian, Mohammad Fotouhi, M. Reza Hosseini & Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini, Singapore: Springer, 2026, p. 1-12Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This study investigates the prediction of anomalies in room climate regulated by a central Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. We propose an approach to automatically annotate anomalies in unlabeled operational data from a four-story administrative building, covering 3 years of data on building energy consumption and temperature. By identifying and extracting key features, we employ various state-of-the-art machine learning methods, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks, Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and Random Forest, to predict annotated anomalies before they occur. Our results demonstrate that while all approaches perform similarly, Random Forest outperforms the others with a precision of 0.72 and a recall of 0.71. This finding provides facility managers with the ability to predict anomalies in room climate, particularly excessive heating or cooling, thus enabling cost reduction and improved operational efficiency.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Singapore: Springer, 2026. p. 1-12
Series
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, ISSN 2366-2557, E-ISSN 2366-2565 ; 848
Keywords [en]
Anomaly detection, Building facilities management, Machine learning, Predictive maintenance, Adaptive boosting, Air conditioning, Cost reduction, Facilities, Green computing, Learning systems, Neural networks, Random forests, Building facilities, Building facility management, Central heating, Conditioning systems, Facilities management, Heating ventilation and air conditioning, Machine-learning
National Category
Building Technologies Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-73606DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-8872-5_1Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105045702243ISBN: 978-981-95-8871-8 (print)ISBN: 978-981-95-8874-9 (print)ISBN: 978-981-95-8872-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-73606DiVA, id: diva2:2094139
Conference
International Conference on Digital Frontiers in Buildings and Infrastructure (DFBI2025), 11-13 June, 2025, Delft, The Netherlands
2026-08-212026-08-212026-08-27Bibliographically approved