?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Generating+synthetic+energy+usage+data+to+enable+machine+learning+for+sustainable+accommodation&rft.creator=Bentley%2C+PJ&rft.creator=Lim%2C+SL&rft.creator=Jindal%2C+S&rft.creator=Narang%2C+S&rft.description=Machine+Learning+has+the+potential+to+discover+new+correlations+between+energy+usage+in+apartments+and+variables+such+as+seasonality%2C+apartment+location%2C+size%2C+efficiency+and+details+of+those+staying+in+the+apartments%2C+thus+helping+apartments+to+become+more+sustainable+and+helping+those+who+stay+in+them+to+use+less+energy.+The+biggest+impedance+to+creating+such+ML+tools+is+lack+of+viable+data+-+without+the+data%2C+the+tools+cannot+be+created+-+yet+it+is+not+feasible+to+wait+for+several+years'+worth+of+good+data+before+creating+the+tools.+Here+we+present+a+solution+to+this+problem%3A+the+use+of+a+digital+twin+to+generate+synthetic+data.+This+approach+is+viable+even+when+there+is+no+existing+data%2C+but+when+expert+knowledge+about+the+relationship+between+systems+exist.+To+achieve+this%2C+we+develop+a+new+agent-based+synthetic+data+generator+(ASDG)+and+explore+a+case+study+with+a+corporate+housing+and+luxury+alternate+accommodation+marketplace+called+TheSqua.re.+We+show+that+unlimited+quantities+of+realistic+data+can+be+automatically+generated%2C+including+data+for+different+scenarios%2C+and+that+it+can+be+used+by+Machine+Learning+to+discover+the+underlying+correlations.&rft.subject=Correlation%2C+Mechatronics%2C+Digital+twin%2C+Computational+modeling%2C+Machine+learning%2C+Tools%2C+Generators&rft.publisher=IEEE&rft.date=2021-11-13&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A++2021+International+Conference+on+Electrical%2C+Computer%2C+Communications+and+Mechatronics+Engineering+(ICECCME).++++IEEE%3A+Mauritius%2C+Mauritius.+(2021)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10141464%2F1%2FICECCME_v10.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10141464%2F&rft.rights=open