International Journal of Academic Pedagogical Research (IJAPR) ISSN: 2643-9603 Vol. 3 Issue 9, September – 2019, Pages: 1-7 www.ijeais.org/ijapr 1 Energy Efficiency Prediction using Artificial Neural Network Ahmed J. Khalil, Alaa M. Barhoom, Bassem S. Abu-Nasser, Musleh M. Musleh, Samy S. Abu-Naser Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine Abstract. Buildings energy consumption is growing gradually and put away around 40% of total energy use. P redicting heating and cooling loads of a building in the initial phase of the design to find out optimal solutions amongst different designs is very important, as well as in the operating phase after the building has been finished for efficient energy. In this study, an artificial neural network model was designed and developed for predicting heating and cooling loads of a building based on a dataset for building energy performance. The main factors for input variables are: relative compactness, roof area, overall height, surface area, glazing are a, wall area, glazing area distribution of a building, orientation, and the output variables: heating and cooling loads of the building. The dataset used for training are the data published in the literature for various 768 residential buildings. The model was trained and validated, most important factors affecting heating load and cooling load are identified, and the accuracy for the validation was 99.60%. Keywords: Building, Energy, Prediction, Neural Networks, ANN 1. INTRODUCTION Building energy consumption has been steadily increased over the past decades worldwide [1]. There has been a research about energy performance of buildings which study about energy waste and its perennial adverse impact on the environment [2,3]. Almost 40% of energy use of the building is for heating and cooling. It is important to make efforts to minimize heating and cooling loads to reduce total energy consumption in buildings. Hence, calculation of heating and cooling load properly is needed to determine the HVAC equipment and maintain indoor air quality adequately. Building energy ANN model is very useful to find out some parameters for optimum building design properly. However, it requires more skill to operate and take long time to investigate the effects of various parameters. Therefore, many researchers rely on machine learning tools to study the effects of various building parameters on some variables interest because this method is easier and faster than if required data set is available [4]. Various machine learning tools such as support vector machines [4], polynomial regression [5], and decision trees [3] have been developed to predict energy performance of building. They also have been used to predict Heating Load and Cooling Load. This study will explain Heating Load and Cooling Load prediction by using artificial neural network. Among many parameters, we focus on the eight parameters to predict Heating Load and Cooling Load namely relative compactness, surface area, wall area, roof area, overall height, orientation, glazing area, and glazing area distribution. Artificial Neural network was built to find out the value of Cooling Load and Heating Load based on 768 datasets from the reference [8] and the most important parameters affecting Cooling Load and Heating Load loads using JustNN tool were determined. Artificial Neural Network Artificial Neural networks are a set of algorithms, modeled loosely after the human brain, that are designed to recognize patterns. They interpret sensory data through a kind of machine perception, labeling or clustering raw input. The patterns they recognize are numerical contained in vectors, into which all real-world data, are images, sound, text or time series, and must be translated [9]. Neural networks help us cluster and classify. You can think of them as a clustering and classification layer on top of the data you store and manage. They help to group unlabeled data according to similarities among the example inputs, and they classify data when they have a labeled dataset to train on. (Neural networks can also extract features that are fed to other algorithms for clustering and classification; so you can think of deep neural networks as components of larger machine-learning applications involving algorithms for reinforcement learning, classification and regression) [10]. What kind of problems does deep learning solve, and more importantly, can it solve yours? To know the answer, you need to ask questions:  What outcomes do I care about? Those outcomes are labels that could be applied to data: for example, spam or not_spam in an email filter, good_guy or bad_guy in fraud detection, angry_customer or happy_customer in customer relationship management. International Journal of Academic Pedagogical Research (IJAPR) ISSN: 2643-9603 Vol. 3 Issue 9, September – 2019, Pages: 1-7 www.ijeais.org/ijapr 2  Do I have the data to accompany those labels? That is, can I find labeled data, or can I create a labeled dataset (with a service like AWS Mechanical Turk or Figure Eight or Mighty.ai) where spam has been labeled as spam, in order to teach an algorithm the correlation between labels and inputs? Deep Neural Network maps inputs to outputs. It finds correlations. It is known as a "universal approximate", because it can learn to approximate an unknown function f(x) = y between any input x and any output y, assuming they are related at all (by correlation or causation, for example). In the process of learning, a neural network finds the right f, or the correct manner of transforming x into y, whether that be f(x) = 3x + 12 or f(x) = 9x 0.1. Here are a few examples of what deep learning can do [12-14] Classification All classification tasks depend upon labeled datasets; that is, humans must transfer their knowledge to the dataset in order for a neural network to learn the correlation between labels and data. This is known as supervised learning[15].  Detect faces, identify people in images, recognize facial expressions (angry, joyful)  Identify objects in images (stop signs, pedestrians, lane markers...)  Recognize gestures in video  Detect voices, identify speakers, transcribe speech to text, recognize sentiment in voices  Classify text as spam (in emails), or fraudulent (in insurance claims); recognize sentiment in text (customer feedback) Any labels that humans can generate, any outcomes that you care about and which correlate to data, can be used to train a neural network. Clustering Clustering or grouping is the detection of similarities. Deep learning does not require labels to detect similarities. Learning without labels is called unsupervised learning. Unlabeled data is the majority of data in the world. One law of machine learning is: the more data an algorithm can train on, the more accurate it will be. Therefore, unsupervised learning has the potential to produce highly accurate models[16-20].  Search: Comparing documents, images or sounds to surface similar items.  Anomaly detection: The flipside of detecting similarities is detecting anomalies, or unusual behavior. In many cases, unusual behavior correlates highly with things you want to detect and prevent, such as fraud. Predictive Analytics: Regressions With classification, deep learning is able to establish correlations between, say, pixels in an image and the name of a person. You might call this a static prediction. By the same token, exposed to enough of the right data, deep learning is able to establish correlations between present events and future events. It can run regression between the past and the future. The future event is like the label in a sense. Deep learning doesn't necessarily care about time, or the fact that something hasn't happened yet. Given a time series, deep learning may read a string of number and predict the number most likely to occur next[21-24].  Hardware breakdowns (data centers, manufacturing, transport)  Health breakdowns (strokes, heart attacks based on vital stats and data from wearables)  Customer churn (predicting the likelihood that a customer will leave, based on web activity and metadata)  Employee turnover (ditto, but for employees) The better we can predict, the better we can prevent and preempt. As you can see, with neural networks, we're moving towards a world of fewer surprises. Not zero surprises, just marginally fewer. We're also moving toward a world of smarter agents that combine neural networks with other algorithms like reinforcement learning to attain goals [2528]. Neural Network Components Deep learning is the name we use for "stacked neural networks"; that is, networks composed of several layers[2935]. The layers are made of nodes. A node is just a place where computation happens, loosely patterned on a neuron in the human brain, which fires when it encounters sufficient stimuli. A node combines input from the data with a set of coefficients, or weights that either amplify or dampen that input, thereby assigning significance to inputs with regard to the task the algorithm is trying to learn; e.g. which input is most helpful is classifying data without error? These inputweight products are summed and then the sum is passed through a node's so-called activation function, to determine whether and to what extent that signal should progress further through the network to affect the ultimate outcome, say, an act of classification. If the signals pass through, the neuron has been "activated."[36] Here's a diagram of what one node might look like. International Journal of Academic Pedagogical Research (IJAPR) ISSN: 2643-9603 Vol. 3 Issue 9, September – 2019, Pages: 1-7 www.ijeais.org/ijapr 3 A node layer is a row of those neuron-like switches that turn on or off as the input is fed through the net. Each layer's output is simultaneously the subsequent layer's input, starting from an initial input layer receiving your data[3745]. Pairing the model's adjustable weights with input features is how we assign significance to those features with regard to how the neural network classifies and clusters input[46-48]. 2. METHODOLOGY Neural networks are complex nonlinear model that can be used to find the correlation between inputs and outputs. They can be applied in many research fields such as classification, function approximation, forecasting, clustering, and optimization [49,50]. There are two kinds of neural networks namely static and dynamic neural networks [51-54]. In this paper, static neural networks are used to train 768 data sets to correlate variable relative compactness, roof area, overall height, surface area, glazing area, wall area, glazing area distribution of a building, orientation, and the output variables: heating and cooling loads of the building. It is conducted by using JustNN Tool[55-60]. We used eight input variables, three hidden layers, and one output to predict Heating Load and Cooling Load. We select Heating Load and Cooling Load as output variables for training together (multi-output). Table 1 Input variable Table 2 Output variable Variable Name Description of the variable y1 Heating Load y2 Cooling Load 1. Dataset Preprocessing We wanted to use this dataset to a build an ANN model to predict the Heating Load and Cooling Load (attribute number 9 and 10). The first thing we had to do, is choose a suitable factors for this prediction, and delete the unnecessary ones, we chose all the eight factors to be our input to the predictive model. Moreover, the dataset contain 768 samples. We divided these samples to 519 training samples, and 249 validation samples. In addition, because of the integer numbers of the inputs are too large comparing with the real rate values, we did a normalization to them so all the data are real[61]. Normalization formula was: )) ) )) . While checking the samples, it has been noticed that there no conflict between the instances; which means, the data are ready for training to predict Heating and Cooling Loads. 2. ANN Model The resulted predictive ANN model is shown in Figure 2 and Figure 5. Figure 1: Our ANN Model 3. Validation Our ANN model was able to predict Heating and Cooling Loads with 99.60% accuracy, with about 0.002 errors as seen in figure (3). Furthermore, The Model showed that the most effective factor in Heating and Cooling Loads are the Wall Area, Relative Variable Name Description of the variable X1 Relative Compactness X2 Surface Area X3 Wall Area X4 Roof Area X5 Overall Height X6 Orientation X7 Glazing Area X8 Glazing Area Distribution International Journal of Academic Pedagogical Research (IJAPR) ISSN: 2643-9603 Vol. 3 Issue 9, September – 2019, Pages: 1-7 www.ijeais.org/ijapr 4 Compactness, Roof Area. More details are shown in figure (4). Figure 2: Validation and Errors Figure 3: Attributes Importance Figure 5: Details of our ANN Model 3. 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