A recurrent neural network using historical data to predict time series indoor PM2.5 concentrations for residential buildings

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Due to the severe outdoor PM2.5 pollution in China, many people have installed air-cleaning systems in homes. To make the systems run automatically and intelligently, we developed a recurrent neural network (RNN) that uses historical data to predict the future indoor PM2.5 concentration. The RNN architecture includes an autoencoder and a recurrent part. We used data measured in an apartment over the course of an entire year to train and test the RNN. The data include indoor/outdoor PM2.5 concentration, environmental parameters and time of day. By comparing three different input strategies, we found that a strategy employing historical PM2.5 and time of day as inputs performed best. With this strategy, the model can be applied to predict the relatively stable trend of indoor PM2.5 concentration in advance. When the input length is 2 h and the prediction horizon is 30 min, the median prediction error is 8.3 µg/m3 for the whole test set. For times with indoor PM2.5 concentrations between (20,50] µg/m3 and (50,100] µg/m3 , the median prediction error is 8.3 and 9.2 µg/m3 , respectively. The low prediction error between the ground-truth and predicted values shows that the RNN can predict indoor PM2.5 concentrations with satisfactory performance.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Indoor air - 31(2021), 4 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 1228-1237

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dai, Xilei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Junjie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yongle [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Air Pollutants
Artificial intelligence
Deep learning
Indoor PM2.5
Journal Article
Outdoor parameters
Particulate Matter
Recurrent neural network
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Time series model

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Date Completed 25.10.2021

Date Revised 25.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ina.12794

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320116948