Hi, I am an HVAC engineer by profession. During my course of work I found that there is a strong need for understanding the design and specification of chillers behind the performance enhancement using data analytics. I wish to create a model using Supervised Machine learning and Deep learning for generation of fault detection before equipment failure and energy conservation.Those interested can share your thoughts.
Currently pursuing MS in Data Science & Machine Learning from Woolf Malta. Any suggestions/guidance would be appreciated to reach my goal or further study.
I know nothing about HVAC but my first question/thought would be: define your variables. What data do you have and can you measure ? And if there is a factor you feel is important, yet not presently easy to measure, define/come up with a means that data can be collected. Defining your variables will also help with model selection.
To the best of my understanding, what you ask about is called predictive maintenance and has been an area of study for quite a long time - at least a decade. Give the interweb a search and you will find many IT (eg IBM) and industrial automation (eg Siemans AG) companies very active in this field.
@Tameem_Islam I also wish I knew better how this applied to ML, yet I do not. Though the PID (Proportionalâintegralâderivative) algorithm could be useful for your use case and is maybe something to look up.
Yes, as mentioned I do not have first hand experience applying a PID application to ML, though I do have experience in other more standard situations. That said a quick Google search I did after posting suggests others out there are thinking about this tooâ
However, the whole idea of predictive maintenance is to avoid hardware failure altogether. PID, even PID + ML for control, is a different problem space.
I canât post links, but search for âAmazon predicts HVAC.â Itâll bring up a blog post on how Amazon did this with Carrier. Iâm not promoting Amazon but the article lays out the basics that you can use to get started.
I work specifically in this area. You would need to sensor that measure the air quliaty in terms of PM, CO2, O3 etc. There are off-the-shelf products that measure these. One such example is this one from delta
Feel free to reach me out at brikesh987@gmail.com to know more details.
Hello Tameem,
Try to collect as many sensor data as you can, including input voltages, or voltages inside the circuitry, temperature, humidity, airflow, airflow temperature wrt desired temperature or ambient temperature, etcâŚ
Then you can try either one of the following methods:
Multivariate gaussian distribution
Autoencoders
RNNs
I have also heard that some people resorting to forests but I do not have concrete information.