Reduction of Air Con usage, an analysis using R & SQL
Software / programming languages used:
Excel
SQL
R
PowerBI
Statistical testing methods
Machine Learning
Project Details:
This project was built to learn the end-to-end process of data workflow from building the sensors that collect data to building the pipeline for the information to be stored and finally for the extraction, transformation and loading of the data to an analysis platform such as R and PowerBI.
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From data that was collected and analysed, it was found that air conditioning usage could be reduced up to 40% in the given test period by ventilating a room well instead of turning the air con on. Suggestions were given on smart systems that could automatically turn the aircon off and open windows automatically using sensors and servos.
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This project has 2 other sub parts which can be accessed via these links:
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Sensor uptime monitor using PowerBI Direct Query
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Prediction model, A comparison of using Excel and R for machine learning / prediction
Highlights

This was the hardware used. There were Arduino sensors, 3 WiFi sensors (pictured on the left) and 1 Ethernet based sensor (Pictured in the middle) which uploaded data every 10 seconds to a Raspberry Pi server running a MariaDB SQL server (Pictured on the right)



