UNICON, a large-scale open dataset on UNIversity CONsumption of utilities, electricity, gas and water. This dataset is publicly released as part of La Trobe University’s commitment to Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2029, for which we are building the La Trobe Energy AI/Analytics Platform (LEAP) that leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics to analyse, predict and optimize the consumption, generation and utilization of electricity, renewables, gas and water resources. UNICON contains consumption data for La Trobe’s five campuses in geographically distributed regions, across four years, 2018-2021 inclusive. This includes the COVID-19 global pandemic timeline of university shutdown and work from home measures that led to a significant decrease in the consumption of utilities. The consumption data consists of smart electricity meter readings at 15-minute granularity, gas meter readings at hourly intervals and water meter readings at 15-minute intervals. UNICON also contains weather data from the closest weather station to each campus, collected at two-speed latency of 1 minute and 10 minutes. The dataset is annotated with internal events of significance, such as energy conservation measures (ECMs) and other measurement and validation (M&V) activities conducted as part of LEAP optimization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first large-scale, comprehensive, open dataset for the three main utilities, electricity, gas, and water consumption in a multi-campus university setting.

Dataset file descriptions

• campus_meta.csv – This file contains information about each campus in the university network.
• nmi_meta.csv – Information about NMIs such as campus location and peak demand is listed in this file.
• building_meta.csv – This file contains meta information about buildings in each campus which include campus location, floor area and etc.
• calender.csv – University calendar for the data collection period is included in this file.
• events.csv – There are series of events happened at each building which include energy efficiency projects such as LED installation and HVAC system updates. This file contains the dates related to each event at building level.
• nmi_consumption.csv – Consumption data of NMIs are recorded in this file.
• building_consumption.csv – Consumption data of buildings are recorded in this file.
• building_submeter_consumption.csv – Consumption data of building sub-meters are recorded in this file.
• gas_consumption.csv – Gas consumption data of available campuses are recorded in this file.
• water_consumption.csv – Water consumption data of available campuses are recorded in this file.
• weather_data.csv – Weather data collected from respective weather stations.

Acknowledgements

Please cite the following paper if you use this dataset:

• H. Moraliyage, N. Mills, P. Rathnayake, D. De Silva and A. Jennings, "UNICON: An Open Dataset of Electricity, Gas and Water Consumption in a Large Multi-Campus University Setting," 2022 15th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI), 2022, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI55341.2022.9869498

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Github: https://github.com/CDAC-lab/UNICON