Proof of Concept of a Cloud-Based Smart Dual-Fuel Switching System to Control the Operation of a Hybrid Residential HVAC System
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A net-zero energy house was outfitted with IoT technology and devices to monitor its energy generation and consumption. The house has a rooftop PV array, an efficient hybrid (or dual-fuel) HVAC system, and efficient appliances to achieve net-zero status. Signals between the thermostat and the HVAC system were intercepted by a custom-built wifi-enabled circuit board to transmit the operating status of the HVAC unit and receive control signals from a remote server for optimal supervisory control. The project was developed as a proof of concept to show that a cloud-based intelligent control system that automatically chooses the best fuel source to use can benefit the homeowner (19% energy cost savings is possible) and contribute to decarbonization (29% reduction). If employed on a wide scale with a smart grid that sends pricing and demand response signals, huge potentials in reducing carbon emissions can be achieved without sacrificing homeowner costs and comfort.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".