About the data set

This website provides details on the deployment of sensors that monitor energy consumption of a household in the Netherlands. This website currently hosts data from a single household. We are currently extending our deployment to more households.  DRED (Dutch Residential Energy Dataset) is the first open-access, publicly available dataset from The Netherlands. Our deployment consists of several sensors measuring electricity, occupants occupancy and ambient parameters in a household. The data was collected over a period of 6 months from 5th July to 5th December 2015. The DRED dataset includes:		
								     
 Electricity monitoring - aggregated energy consumption and appliance level energy consumption.
								   	 
 Ambient information - room-level indoor temperature, outdoor temperature, environmental parameters (wind speed, humidity, precipitation).
									 
 Occupancy information- room-level location information of occupants, WiFi and BT RSSI information for localization
								   	 
 Household information - house layout, number of appliance monitored, appliance-location mapping, etc. 

We use off-the-shelf sensors to monitor various parameters in the household. The table below shows the sensors deployed, data collected and the sampling frequency. 



    

        
Sensor type
        
Device used
        
Data collected
        
Sampling frequency
    
    

        
Appliance level consumption 
        
Plugwise circle 
        
time, power
        
1 Hz
    
    

        
House level consumption
        
Smart meter + Plugwise smile 
        
time, power
        
1 Hz
    
    

        
Indoor room temperature 
        
Qualcomm beacons (5 rooms)
        
time, degrees
        
1 min
    
    

        
Outdoor temperature
        
Qualcomm beacons 
        
time, degrees
        
1 min
    
    

        
Environmental data
        
RNMI website
        
time, windspeed, humidity, precipitation 
        
1 hour
    
    

        
Occupancy information
        
smartphone, smartwatch
        
time, room level location
        
1 min
    
    

        
WiFi RSSI
        
smartphone, smartwatch
        
time, RSSI, MAC id, AP name
        
1 min
    
    

        
BT RSSI
        
smartphone, smartwatch
        
time, RSSI,battery level, beacon id
        
1 min
    

						
						

Data Access

The DRED dataset is made available to the research community to test the performance of energy disaggregation algorithms, derive appliance usage  behavior and analyze demand response algorithms.
The data was collected as part of research towards developing efficient energy disaggregation and demand side mangement algorithms. You can know  more about my research here. 

To access the data, please send us your contact information and a short description on what you plan to do with the data via e-mail or fill up this form. 
I will provide the necessary credentials to access the dataset. Please not that, since the deployment is live, we keep updating the dataset and each new release will be labeled with month and year. Please cite the following paper(s) when you are using the dataset.
                            
Papers:
                            
 1. LocED: Location-aware Energy Disaggregation Framework

  S. N. A. U. Nambi, A. Reyes Lua and R. Prasad, “LocED: Location- aware energy Disaggregation Framework,” in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM  International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), 2015.
                            
							

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our master student Antonio Reyes Lua for support during data collection and processing.