Build a District Cooling Plant Sub-Meter Anomaly Detector
Analyze district cooling plant tenant sub-meter data to identify bypass valve leakage and faulty energy meters. Generate maintenance tickets to recover lost cooling tonnage billing revenue.
What you are building
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Analyze district cooling plant tenant sub-meter data to identify bypass valve leakage and faulty energy meters. Generate maintenance tickets to recover lost cooling tonnage billing revenue.
Energy Services Retrofit Engineer
Ingest tenant cooling energy sub-meter telemetry and central plant chilled water flow rates.
Calculate expected energy consumption versus billed usage to identify usage discrepancies.
Classify anomalies as either meter calibration drift or physical bypass valve leakage.
Output a verified revenue recovery report and maintenance inspection ticket.
Financial and engineering dashboard displaying thermal storage sizing options, peak kW savings, and payback curves.
Use synthetic normalized app records representing tenant billing sub-meters and central plant flow logs. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
EnergyPlus Extracts expected flow and thermal load properties using EnergyPlus central plant loop configurations.
dspy, pandas, scikit-learn. DSPy optimizes the prompt pipelines to match cooling load profiles with optimal ice storage dispatch strategies. Local or hosted LLM with strong mathematical reasoning and JSON formatting capabilities.
Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.
Identifies discrepancies between totalized plant cooling output and aggregated tenant sub-meter billing.
Classifies faults between meter drift and physical bypass valve leakage based on load profiles.
Produces an itemized revenue loss report for facility management.
Outputs simplified synthetic JSON maintenance tickets without triggering live billing freezes.
```json [ { "input": { "tenant_id": "BLDG-12", "billed_ton_hours": 1200, "measured_flow_lps": 45, "delta_t_c": 1.5, "_schema_type": "simplified synthetic app record" }, "expected_output": { "anomaly_detected": true, "classification": "BYPASS_VALVE_LEAKAGE", "estimated_lost_revenue_usd": 450, "action": "DISPATCH_INSPECTION" } }, { "input": { "tenant_id": "BLDG-14", "billed_ton_hours": 3500, "measured_flow_lps": 40, "delta_t_c": 8.5, "_schema_type": "simplified synthetic app record" }, "expected_output": { "anomaly_detected": false, "classification": "NORMAL", "estimated_lost_revenue_usd": 0, "action": "NONE" } } ] ```
Provides advisory financial modeling; requires stamped professional mechanical engineering validation before final procurement. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Provides advisory financial modeling; requires stamped professional mechanical engineering validation before final procurement. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Identifies discrepancies between totalized plant cooling output and aggregated tenant sub-meter billing. Classifies faults between meter drift and physical bypass valve leakage based on load profiles. Produces an itemized revenue loss report for facility management. Outputs simplified synthetic JSON maintenance tickets without triggering live billing freezes.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
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Complete workflow
Ingest tenant cooling energy sub-meter telemetry and central plant chilled water flow rates. Calculate expected energy consumption versus billed usage to identify usage discrepancies. Classify anomalies as either meter calibration drift or physical bypass valve leakage. Output a verified revenue recovery report and maintenance inspection ticket.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Identifies discrepancies between totalized plant cooling output and aggregated tenant sub-meter billing. Classifies faults between meter drift and physical bypass valve leakage based on load profiles. Produces an itemized revenue loss report for facility management. Outputs simplified synthetic JSON maintenance tickets without triggering live billing freezes.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Financial and engineering dashboard displaying thermal storage sizing options, peak kW savings, and payback curves.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Provides advisory financial modeling; requires stamped professional mechanical engineering validation before final procurement.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Ingest tenant cooling energy sub-meter telemetry and central plant chilled water flow rates.
Calculate expected energy consumption versus billed usage to identify usage discrepancies.
Classify anomalies as either meter calibration drift or physical bypass valve leakage.
Output a verified revenue recovery report and maintenance inspection ticket.
Reference links and supporting material
Use synthetic normalized app records representing tenant billing sub-meters and central plant flow logs. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
Challenge setup
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DSPy
Prompt and LM program optimization framework.
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- Ingest tenant cooling energy sub-meter telemetry and central plant chilled water flow rates. Calculate expe...
- Identifies discrepancies between totalized plant cooling output and aggregated tenant sub-meter billing. Cl...
- Financial and engineering dashboard displaying thermal storage sizing options, peak kW savings, and payback...
- 2 public reference cases
- 3 configured tools
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Configured tools
- DSPy · Optional
- DSPy · Optional
- DSPy · Optional
Evaluation contract
- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
Reference cases
- 2 public reference cases
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