Identifying Daily Electric Consumption Patterns from Smart Meter Data by Means of Clustering Algorithms
Résumé
This paper presents clustering approaches applied on daily energy consumption curves of buildings. Our aim is to identify a reduced set of consumption patterns for a tertiary building during one year. These patterns depend on the temperature throughout the year as well as the type of the day (working day, work-free day and school holidays). Two clustering approaches are used independently, namely the functional K-means algorithm, that takes into account the functional aspect of data and the Expectation-Maximization algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Model (EM-GMM). The clustering results of the two algorithms are analyzed and compared. This study represents the first step towards the development of prediction models for energy consumption.