Computer Science Colloquium


ABODE-Net: An Attention-based Deep Learning Model for Non-invasive Building Occupancy Detection Using Smart Meter Data

Zhirui Bill Luo
NMT

Date: Monday August 29, 2022
Time: 5:30pm MDT
Room: Zoom zoom.us, Meeting ID 926 9565 5625, passcode 488975
            The talk will be held in Speare Hall room 19 for the CSE 585 class

   Abstract:

Occupancy information is useful for efficient energy management in the building sector. The massive high-resolution electrical power consumption data collected by smart meters in the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) network make it possible to infer buildings' occupancy status in a non-invasive way. In this paper, we propose a deep learning model called ABODE-Net which employs a novel Parallel Attention (PA) block for building occupancy detection using smart meter data. The PA block combines the temporal, variable, and channel attention modules in a parallel way to signify important features for occupancy detection. We use two smart meter datasets widely used for building occupancy detection in our performance evaluation. A set of state-of-the-art shallow machine learning and deep learning models are included for performance comparison. The results show that ABODE-Net significantly outperforms other models for all experimental cases, which prove its validity as a solution for non-invasive building occupancy detection.

Bio:

Zhirui Luo was born in Changde, Hunan, China, in 1994. He received the B.E. degree in software engineering from Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China, in 2018, and the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, USA, in 2018 and 2020, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer science. His research areas are machine learning, deep learning, and social computing.