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Commercial Real Estate BMS Telemetry Fault Detection Pipeline

Built environment AI deployment requires automated anomaly detection on Building Management System (BMS) time-series telemetry. Build a real-time fault detection pipeline using Python, Polars, and Prophet to identify HVAC sensor drift and anomalous energy consumption spikes. Achieve an operational anomaly detection precision of 94%.

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What you are building

Develop an anomalous BMS telemetry detection pipeline using Polars dataframes and Prophet time-series forecasting.

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates detection accuracy of synthetic energy consumption spikes and sensor faults.

Datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

How submissions are scored

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

anomaly_flag_match

Checks correct classification of operational anomaly.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

detection_precision

Precision of detected anomaly timestamps. • target: 0.94 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

  • Process high-volume BMS sensor telemetry using high-performance Polars dataframes

  • Fit Prophet time-series models on historical energy and temperature sensor curves

  • Calculate dynamic upper/lower bound confidence intervals to isolate operational anomalies

  • Generate automated facility maintenance work orders upon detecting persistent sensor drift

Resources

Dataset notes

Time-series dataset containing hourly commercial building electricity demand (kW), supply air temperatures, and injected fault anomalies.

Challenge setup

Evaluates detection accuracy of synthetic energy consumption spikes and sensor faults.

Challenge input

JSON object with timestamp, observed_kw, baseline_expected_kw, confidence_band

Polars

Fast data processing tool for time-series logs.

Prophet

Standard seasonal time-series baseline tool.

Evaluated output

JSON object with is_anomaly (boolean), anomaly_severity ('LOW'|'HIGH'|'NONE')

Evaluation checks
  • Checks correct classification of operational anomaly.
  • Precision of detected anomaly timestamps. • target: 0.94 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: TimeSeriesAnomalyBench
  • Detection Precision target: 0.94
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

Shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Prophet · Required
  • Fixie · Optional
Policy Serving
  • OpenRouter · Optional
Orchestration
  • OpenRouter · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • anomaly_flag_match · Weight 1
  • detection_precision · Weight 1

Metrics

  • detection_precision · Target 0.94

Benchmarks

  • TimeSeriesAnomalyBench
  • general

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON object with timestamp, observed_kw, baseline_expected_kw, confidence_band

    Output: JSON object with is_anomaly (boolean), anomaly_severity ('LOW'|'HIGH'|'NONE')

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • Polars · Dataframe Engine
  • Prophet · Forecasting Library

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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