A hierarchical classification algorithm for evaluating energy consumption behaviors

Researches on office building energy consumption have been hot in these years, but few researchers consider the classification of office energy consumption performance which can evaluate user behaviors in order to offer a clear analysis of energy consumption and improve their energy saving consciousness. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical classification algorithm for evaluating energy consumption behaviors at a real energy management system, which combines fuzzy c-means clustering with GA (genetic algorithm)-based SVM (support vector machine) to fully utilize collected samples. The experiment results with real energy consumption data show that the proposed algorithm works well to distinguish the abnormal behaviors and classify energy consumption behaviors accurately on normal offices.