Calibrating the model with PAT in hourly time step

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@rtsuchiya I'll be speaking about time series calibration with OpenStudio at the SimBuild conference next week in Chicago.

I don't think I have the paper posted anywhere yet, but one of the measures we used, TimeSeries Objective Function, is on BCL and will create CVRMSE and NMBE values by comparing time series modeled SQL data against time series CSV measured data. It is setup to work for one or multiple run periods. You can just run this with LHS or some other sampling method and pick the best datapoint, or you can setup objectives function in PAT using the CVRMSE and/or NMBE values and choose an optimization algorithm.

The measure is setup to map an EnergyPlus output variable to a single column in the measured data. You could grab temperatures for all of the individual zones. For a free oscillation (free float) calibration I created a variation on the measure to report a volume weighted average zone temperature and then created that same data in measured data. The image below is a 6 day calibration where plug loads were fixed from measured data and envelope characteristics were variables.

Updated to show setup of CSV file in PAT:

1. Go to Algorithmic Mode and expand the "Additional Analysis Files" section. On the left browse to a local directory that contains the CSV file/s you want to access. These file can be outside of your PAT project.
2. On the right create a name for directory on the server where you want the CSV file to be uploaded to. It is recommended to avoid spaces and special characters for this name.
3. If you go back to manual model at this point, you will still have access to the selected files on the server.
4. When referring to the file in a measure the path would look like ../../../lib/resources/your_data.csv. We plant to enhance PAT so no path is needed and just a file name would be entered, but for now you need a relative or absolute path.