A Benchmarking Model for Household Water Consumption Based on Adaptive Logic Networks. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Xiaomin; Yang, Shuang-Hua; Yang, Lili; Chen, Xi
• Is Part Of: Procedia engineering. Volume 119(2015)
• Page Start: 1391
• Page End: 1398
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: Household water consumption -- Benchmarking -- Socio-demographical factors -- Adaptive Logic Networks; Engineering -- Congresses; Engineering -- Periodicals; Engineering; Conference proceedings; Periodicals; 620.005
• DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.998
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1877-7058

Abstract

Abstract: Household water benchmarking is an important step in evaluating a household's water usage and comparing it with similar house- holds. It can provide an indicator if a household consumes more water than usual during a certain period of time or some households consume more than other similar households in a particular region. This paper proposes a benchmarking model for household water consumption based on Adaptive Logic Networks (ALNs). Real world data collected by a water consumption monitoring system installed in Sosnowiec, Poland and Skiathos, Greece is respectively used to build a model for each city. The results indicate that the developed models can successfully prediction for a particular use purpose.