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Sci. Tech. Energ. Transition
Volume 79, 2024
Emerging Advances in Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems and Integration
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Article Number | 85 | |
Number of page(s) | 14 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.2516/stet/2024060 | |
Published online | 23 October 2024 |
Regular Article
Enhancing energy consumption prediction in smart homes: a convergence-aware federated transfer learning approach
1
Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Republic of Korea
2
Department of Computer Engineering, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Republic of Korea
3
Faculty of Computing and IT, Sohar University, Sohar 311, Oman
4
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Alfaisal University, Takhassusi St., Al Maather Road, P.O. Box 50927, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia
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Department of Information Technology, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding author: geatteiaallah@pnu.edu.sa
Received:
16
June
2024
Accepted:
24
July
2024
Achieving accurate energy consumption prediction can be challenging, particularly in residential buildings, which experience highly variable consumption behavior due to changes in occupants and the construction of new buildings. This variability, combined with the potential for privacy breaches through conventional data collection methods, underscores the need for novel approaches to energy consumption forecasting. The proposed study suggests a new approach to predict energy consumption, utilizing Federated Learning (FL) to train a global model while ensuring local data privacy and transferring knowledge from information-rich to information-poor buildings. The proposed method learns the transferable knowledge from the source building without any privacy leakage and utilizes it for target buildings. Since the performance of the global model could be negatively affected by some participating nodes with poor performance due to noisy or limited data, we propose a client selection strategy on the server based on the normal distribution for choosing the best possible participants for the global model. Our method enables clients to participate selectively in the aggregation procedure to avoid model divergence due to poor performance. The proposed model is evaluated and conducts in-depth analyses of energy consumption patterns. We validate the performance by comparing its Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Square Error (MSE), and R2 values to those of existing traditional and ensemble models. Our findings indicate that the proposed FL-based model with selective client participation outperforms its counterpart methods regarding predictive accuracy and robustness. The source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/atifrizwan1/TFL-PP).
Key words: Federated Learning / Energy consumption forecasting / Energy management / Smart buildings / Partial client participation
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