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Casestudie Breakdown prediction Contell PILOT - Transumo

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A classification could be achieved by calculating the probability of the actual<br />

situation, based on historical data. The underlying assumption is that a situation that<br />

is more exceptional than any other in the past indicates a critical situation of a<br />

hundred percent probability. If, for instance, a current door opening already takes<br />

more than one minute, a comparison to past values could conclude that ninety<br />

percent of all door openings took less time. Hence, the probability that the current<br />

situation is critical is ninety percent. To put this value on a larger basis, the maximum<br />

probability of all three criteria should be taken.<br />

The probability of a critical situation could be used to define the above suggested<br />

alarm levels:<br />

• Green alarm: probability of a critical situation ≥ 50%<br />

• Yellow alarm: probability of a critical situation ≥ 75%<br />

• Red alarm: probability of a critical situation ≥ 95%<br />

This definition is only used exemplarily and can be adapted to other values.<br />

Especially the made assumption that probabilities < 50% shall not be classified as<br />

alarms, although the critical temperature level is exceeded, might be problematic in<br />

some settings. But this assumption saves a lot of alarms without increasing the risk<br />

too much. 72<br />

Using classification like this offers the person in charge additional operational<br />

decision support, whether an occurring alarm has to be taken seriously or not.<br />

Section 6.2.3 will apply this method to a sample dataset to point out the possible<br />

improvements.<br />

5.10.4 Review<br />

The last three sections introduced promising ideas to improve the current monitoring<br />

situation. This section will now review the expected improvements. Whether these<br />

methods really lead to the expected gain of information will be reviewed in chapter 6<br />

by applying them to a sample dataset.<br />

Section 5.10.1 pointed out, that the appliance of descriptive statistics to monitoring<br />

data might be used to recognize significant changes of general cooling behavior on<br />

daily basis. Especially the analysis of daily nighttime values could recognize changes<br />

72 See section 6.2.3 for details<br />

83

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