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author Sehmer, Felix
Hoffmann, Maximilian
Kloos, Norberth
Bergmann, Ralph
author_facet Sehmer, Felix
Hoffmann, Maximilian
Kloos, Norberth
Bergmann, Ralph
contents <h1 class="code-line">Water Demand Dataset Collection</h1> <h2 class="code-line">Introduction</h2> <p class="code-line">A crucial part of optimizing the cost of water infrastructures is to look at their energy consumption. To reduce the cost for energy, it is possible to either reduce the energy consumption or to shift the energy consumption to times when energy is cheaper. With an increasing share of renewable energy, the latter becomes more and more important. To shift the energy consumption, one of the most important steps is to forecast the water demand. In this repository, we provide a collection of eleven water demand datasets.</p> <h2 class="code-line">Datasets</h2> <h3 class="code-line">Key Information</h3> <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">Number of Datasets: 11</li> <li class="code-line">Granularity: 15 minutes</li> <li class="code-line">Time Range: 2024-01-01 to 2026-01-28 (differs across datasets)</li> <li class="code-line">Number of Records: 47448 - 70161 (differs across datasets)</li> <li class="code-line">Features: 1 (water demand in m³/h)</li> </ul> <h3 class="code-line">Origin</h3> <p class="code-line">The datasets are collected from three different water utilities in Germany. The datasets represent real water demand data that is collected from sensors placed at outflows of reservoirs. Because of this, the measurements are purely demand-driven, meaning that they are not influenced by any control actions such as pumps or valves. Each dataset represents the water demand of a different reservoir and each of these reservoirs provides water to a small, rural area without any large-scale industrial water consumers.</p> <h3 class="code-line">Preparation</h3> <p class="code-line">The transformation from raw data to the provided datasets involved the following steps:</p> <ol class="code-line"> <li class="code-line"><strong>Consistent Formatting</strong>: All datasets were transformed to have a consistent format with a timestamp column and a water demand column.</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Timezone Conversion</strong>: All timestamps were converted from the original timezone of Europe/Berlin to UTC to ensure consistency across datasets. The issues that arise from this conversion were resolved by inferring and shifting forward (see the Pandas function <code>tz_localize</code> for more details).</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Resampling</strong>: In case the original data had a different granularity, it was resampled to 15-minute intervals using the mean value of the water demand within each interval.</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Rounding</strong>: The water demand values were rounded to six decimal places.</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Handling Missing Values</strong>: Missing values (timestamps or water demand values) were dropped before exporting.</li> </ol> <h3 class="code-line">Data Quality</h3> <p class="code-line">The datasets contain a few data quality issues such as missing values, outliers, and inconsistent data points. These issues are intentionally left in the datasets to provide a realistic scenario for forecasting water demand. Nevertheless, we still generally consider the datasets to be of high quality, as the mentioned issues only affect a small portion of the data. In the following, there is a list of the days with confirmed issues such as maintenance work or sensor malfunctions:</p> <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">Dataset 2: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2024-11-05</li> <li class="code-line">2024-12-08</li> <li class="code-line">2025-08-08</li> <li class="code-line">2025-09-09</li> </ul> </li> <li class="code-line code-active-line">Dataset 11: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2024-01-31</li> <li class="code-line">2024-03-24</li> <li class="code-line">2024-10-16</li> <li class="code-line">2024-10-19</li> <li class="code-line">2025-02-19</li> <li class="code-line">2025-04-29</li> <li class="code-line">2025-05-09</li> <li class="code-line">2025-07-28</li> </ul> </li> <li class="code-line">Dataset 3: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2024-10-14</li> <li class="code-line">2025-07-24</li> </ul> </li> <li class="code-line">Dataset 9: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2025-02-22</li> <li class="code-line">2025-10-21</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 class="code-line">License</h2> <p class="code-line">These datasets can be freely used as they are licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en">CC BY 4.0</a>.</p> <h2 class="code-line">Funding</h2> <p>This work is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space under grant number 02WAZ1745A (SOWEKI).</p> <h2 class="code-line">Contact</h2> <p class="code-line">If you have any questions regarding the datasets, please feel free to contact Maximilian Hoffmann at <a href="mailto:maximilian.hoffmann@dfki.de">maximilian.hoffmann@dfki.de</a>.</p>
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spellingShingle SOWEKI Water Demand Dataset
Sehmer, Felix
Hoffmann, Maximilian
Kloos, Norberth
Bergmann, Ralph
Water demand
Forecast
<h1 class="code-line">Water Demand Dataset Collection</h1> <h2 class="code-line">Introduction</h2> <p class="code-line">A crucial part of optimizing the cost of water infrastructures is to look at their energy consumption. To reduce the cost for energy, it is possible to either reduce the energy consumption or to shift the energy consumption to times when energy is cheaper. With an increasing share of renewable energy, the latter becomes more and more important. To shift the energy consumption, one of the most important steps is to forecast the water demand. In this repository, we provide a collection of eleven water demand datasets.</p> <h2 class="code-line">Datasets</h2> <h3 class="code-line">Key Information</h3> <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">Number of Datasets: 11</li> <li class="code-line">Granularity: 15 minutes</li> <li class="code-line">Time Range: 2024-01-01 to 2026-01-28 (differs across datasets)</li> <li class="code-line">Number of Records: 47448 - 70161 (differs across datasets)</li> <li class="code-line">Features: 1 (water demand in m³/h)</li> </ul> <h3 class="code-line">Origin</h3> <p class="code-line">The datasets are collected from three different water utilities in Germany. The datasets represent real water demand data that is collected from sensors placed at outflows of reservoirs. Because of this, the measurements are purely demand-driven, meaning that they are not influenced by any control actions such as pumps or valves. Each dataset represents the water demand of a different reservoir and each of these reservoirs provides water to a small, rural area without any large-scale industrial water consumers.</p> <h3 class="code-line">Preparation</h3> <p class="code-line">The transformation from raw data to the provided datasets involved the following steps:</p> <ol class="code-line"> <li class="code-line"><strong>Consistent Formatting</strong>: All datasets were transformed to have a consistent format with a timestamp column and a water demand column.</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Timezone Conversion</strong>: All timestamps were converted from the original timezone of Europe/Berlin to UTC to ensure consistency across datasets. The issues that arise from this conversion were resolved by inferring and shifting forward (see the Pandas function <code>tz_localize</code> for more details).</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Resampling</strong>: In case the original data had a different granularity, it was resampled to 15-minute intervals using the mean value of the water demand within each interval.</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Rounding</strong>: The water demand values were rounded to six decimal places.</li> <li class="code-line"><strong>Handling Missing Values</strong>: Missing values (timestamps or water demand values) were dropped before exporting.</li> </ol> <h3 class="code-line">Data Quality</h3> <p class="code-line">The datasets contain a few data quality issues such as missing values, outliers, and inconsistent data points. These issues are intentionally left in the datasets to provide a realistic scenario for forecasting water demand. Nevertheless, we still generally consider the datasets to be of high quality, as the mentioned issues only affect a small portion of the data. In the following, there is a list of the days with confirmed issues such as maintenance work or sensor malfunctions:</p> <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">Dataset 2: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2024-11-05</li> <li class="code-line">2024-12-08</li> <li class="code-line">2025-08-08</li> <li class="code-line">2025-09-09</li> </ul> </li> <li class="code-line code-active-line">Dataset 11: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2024-01-31</li> <li class="code-line">2024-03-24</li> <li class="code-line">2024-10-16</li> <li class="code-line">2024-10-19</li> <li class="code-line">2025-02-19</li> <li class="code-line">2025-04-29</li> <li class="code-line">2025-05-09</li> <li class="code-line">2025-07-28</li> </ul> </li> <li class="code-line">Dataset 3: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2024-10-14</li> <li class="code-line">2025-07-24</li> </ul> </li> <li class="code-line">Dataset 9: <ul class="code-line"> <li class="code-line">2025-02-22</li> <li class="code-line">2025-10-21</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h2 class="code-line">License</h2> <p class="code-line">These datasets can be freely used as they are licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en">CC BY 4.0</a>.</p> <h2 class="code-line">Funding</h2> <p>This work is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space under grant number 02WAZ1745A (SOWEKI).</p> <h2 class="code-line">Contact</h2> <p class="code-line">If you have any questions regarding the datasets, please feel free to contact Maximilian Hoffmann at <a href="mailto:maximilian.hoffmann@dfki.de">maximilian.hoffmann@dfki.de</a>.</p>
title SOWEKI Water Demand Dataset
topic Water demand
Forecast
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19627517