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Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo

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sometimes data of a door opening sensor. These three variables always contain a<br />

different kind of information, so that each input vector is free of redundancy. But as<br />

mentioned in the last section, redundancy is necessary to identify structures or<br />

patterns in case of unsupervised learning.<br />

By contrast, supervised artificial neural networks are used within other settings to<br />

classify the condition of a monitored device. But always certain preconditions have to<br />

be kept. A neural network is able to predict upcoming failures of pumps for instance.<br />

This is possible because a pump shows a nearly constant behavior. Typical slight<br />

changes in behavior over time that indicate upcoming malfunction could be learned<br />

by an artificial neural network, because every device behaves nearly the same way.<br />

(e.g. [Hawibowo97], chapter 5)<br />

At the moment, a problem of appliance is that the provided datasets from the UMC<br />

St. Radboud only cover the time range of about a year. Moreover, not a single<br />

technical malfunction occurred during that year, 61 so that this data would be<br />

insufficient to train an artificial neural network on the recognition of technical<br />

malfunctions.<br />

But even, if the datasets would contain some errors, a general problem is again the<br />

very small quantity of real malfunctions. 62 This could lead to a learning behavior that<br />

ignores malfunctions because of very low weightings of the corresponding edges<br />

within the network.<br />

5.10 Promising Analyzing Methods<br />

As neither the generalized approach from section 4.3.2 nor other approaches are<br />

directly applicable to the setting of sensor based temperature monitoring, this section<br />

will combine collected ideas to promising analyzing methods. Chapter 6 will apply<br />

these suggested approaches to data from the UMC St. Radboud and will review<br />

them according to the requirements analysis.<br />

5.10.1 Promising Appliance of Basic Descriptive Statistics<br />

Section 5.3 introduced the most common descriptive statistical measures. As the<br />

basic ones are applicable to all kinds of stored numerical data, this section will<br />

61 See section 2.2.5 for details<br />

62 See section 2.2.5 for details<br />

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