TY - JOUR A1 - Parzinger, Michael A1 - Hanfstaengl, Lucia A1 - Sigg, Ferdinand A1 - Spindler, Uli A1 - Wellisch, Ulrich A1 - Wirnsberger, Markus T1 - Residual Analysis of Predictive Modelling Data for Automated Fault Detection in Building’s Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems JF - Sustainability N2 - Faults in Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems affect the energy efficiency of buildings. To date, there rarely exist methods to detect and diagnose faults during the operation of buildings that are both cost-effective and sufficient accurate. This study presents a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the detection of faults in HVAC systems. The automated fault detection is based on a residual analysis of the predicted total heating power and the actual total heating power using an algorithm that aims to find an optimal decision rule for the determination of faults. The data for this study was provided by a detailed simulation of a residential case study house. A machine learning model and an ARX model predict the building operation. The model for fault detection is trained on a fault-free data set and then tested with a faulty operation. The algorithm for an optimal decision rule uses various statistical tests of residual properties such as the Sign Test, the Turning Point Test, the Box-Pierce Test and the Bartels-Rank Test. The results show that it is possible to predict faults for both known faults and unknown faults. The challenge is to find the optimal algorithm to determine the best decision rules. In the outlook of this study, further methods are presented that aim to solve this challenge. KW - fault detection KW - HVAC KW - residual analysis Y1 - 2020 UR - https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176758 VL - 12 IS - 17 SP - 6758 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Parzinger, Michael A1 - Wellisch, Ulrich A1 - Hanfstaengl, Lucia A1 - Sigg, Ferdinand A1 - Wirnsberger, Markus A1 - Spindler, Uli T1 - Identifying faults in the building system based on model prediction and residuum analysis T2 - E3S Web of Conferences, 12th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics (NSB 2020) N2 - The energy efficiency of the building HVAC systems can be improved when faults in the running system are known. To this day, there are no cost-efficient, automatic methods that detect faults of the building HVAC systems to a satisfactory degree. This study induces a new method for fault detection that can replace a graphical, user-subjective evaluation of a building data measured on site with an automatic, data-based approach. This method can be a step towards cost-effective monitoring. For this research, the data from a detailed simulation of a residential case study house was used to compare a faultless operation of a building with a faulty operation. We argue that one can detect faults by analysing the properties of residuals of the prediction to the actual data. A machine learning model and an ARX model predict the building operation, and the method employs various statistical tests such as the Sign Test, the Turning Point Test, the Box-Pierce Test and the Bartels-Rank Test. The results show that the amount of data, the type and density of system faults significantly affect the accuracy of the prediction of faults. It became apparent that the challenge is to find a decision rule for the best combination of statistical tests on residuals to predict a fault. KW - fault detection KW - model prediction KW - HVAC KW - residuum analysis Y1 - 2020 UR - https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017222001 VL - 172 SP - 22001 ER -