Summary of Shedad: Snn-enhanced District Heating Anomaly Detection For Urban Substations, by Jonne Van Dreven et al.
SHEDAD: SNN-Enhanced District Heating Anomaly Detection for Urban Substations
by Jonne van Dreven, Abbas Cheddad, Sadi Alawadi, Ahmad Nauman Ghazi, Jad Al Koussa, Dirk Vanhoudt
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to anomaly detection in District Heating (DH) systems, called Shared Nearest Neighbor Enhanced District Heating Anomaly Detection (SHEDAD), is introduced. This method approximates the DH network topology without revealing sensitive information and uses a multi-adaptive k-Nearest Neighbor graph to improve initial neighborhood creation. SHEDAD outperforms traditional clustering methods in terms of intra-cluster variance and distance, effectively isolating two distinct categories of anomalies: supply temperatures and substation performance. The approach is evaluated using the Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) and modified z-scores, achieving a sensitivity of approximately 65% and specificity of approximately 97%. SHEDAD enables targeted maintenance interventions to reduce energy usage while optimizing network performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SHEDAD is a new way to find problems in District Heating systems. These systems keep cities warm efficiently. But sometimes they get out of order, wasting energy and money. SHEDAD helps fix these issues by looking at the connections between different parts of the system. It’s like using a map to find the trouble spots. This approach is better than other methods because it can spot problems more accurately. By fixing just the worst-offending parts of the system, SHEDAD saves energy and makes the whole network work better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Clustering » Nearest neighbor
