BC5_pipeline

The goal of this business case is to forecast the occupancy of a building/zone based on movement sensor data.
The occupancy forecasts or the occupancy model produced can be used for example by edge devices to control the
HVAC equipment of the building in a smart and autonomous way or to improve other models.

Input

• Timeseries:

  • Activity counter (from movement sensor)

• Additional information:

  • Aggregation functions (time grid alignment)
  • Country where the building is located (holidays)

Output

• Model identification/training phase:

  • Model reference (e.g. MLflow URI)
  • Model scores (R^2, MBE, NMBE, RMSE, CVRMSE)

• Prediction phase:

  • Predicted Occupancy (binary value: Occupied/Unoccupied)

How to run it:

Jupyter notebooks:

There are two jupyter notebooks that you can run as demo for this application:

• BC5_pipeline_training_github.ipynb: workflow to train a model to learn occupancy patterns of office zones.
• BC4_pipeline_prediction_github.ipynb: workflow to make predictions using the locally stored model that
  was trained using the previous notebook. We assume that also the new data used to predict are harmonised.

Install requirements:

You must have Python installed on your system and a tool capable of running jupyter notebooks. For the official one
you can follow the procedure here: https://docs.jupyter.org/en/latest/install.html
This procedure was tested with Python 3.8 even though it should work also with other versions.
There are several dependencies to install before running the two notebooks.

1. Install AI TOOLBOX:

Currently, the AI TOOLBOX is not on PyPI, so please follow the installation instructions here:
https://github.com/biggproject/biggpy/blob/main/ai_toolbox/README.md

2. Install other dependencies:

There are other libraries used for visualizations and to handle rdf files.
If you installed already a virtual env for the AI TOOLBOX, you can activate it, cd to this project location
and then install the missing dependencies with:
dependencies with:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install Intel extension for sklearn (optional):

This extension will speed up the calculations when using sklearn but requires your PC to have an Intel CPU.
If you meet this requirement, please follow the instructions here:
https://intel.github.io/scikit-learn-intelex/installation.html

The easiest way would be to install it using pip using:

pip install scikit-learn-intelex

If you decide not to install it, please remove these two initial lines from all the notebooks:

from sklearnex import patch_sklearn 

patch_sklearn()