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Development of ML algorithm to improve in situ measurement of the thermal properties of a building
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 8th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech) Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech), 2023 8th International Conference on. :1-6 Jun, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Bridges
Insulation
Machine learning algorithms
Buildings
Thermal sensors
Thermal conductivity
Particle measurements
Building
thermal perfomances
IoT sensor
Energy efficiency
AI algorithm
measurement accuracy
Language
Abstract
This study presents a method to enhance the accuracy of the procedure for in-situ measurement of the wall thermal transmittance and the overall performance of the building envelope based on IoT infrared sensors. The sensor used is the Comfort Eye, consisting of an IR node to acquire thermographic maps and a desktop node for environmental parameters. This will be achieved by applying a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm to detect and identify the various elements present within the wall, including windows, which exhibit different emissivities that are required for thermal transmittance measurement. Accounting for these differences is crucial to improve measurement accuracy and simplify the calculation of thermal transmittance. In particular, the thermographic images are processed with a detection algorithm, You Only Look Once (YOLO-v5) trained with a personalized dataset and accuracy for detecting elements (such as windows). Results show that the metric values of precision, recall, F1 for the implemented algorithm to detect windows are 0.79, 0.84, 0.81 respectively. Moreover, the identification of the different elements of the wall, having a thermographic map and therefore a punctual measurement of the transmittance value of the entire wall, allows the presence of thermal bridges to be correctly identified.