Intelligent Model Hotel Energy Demand Forecasting by Means of LSTM and GRU Neural Networks

Abstract

The hotel business consumes a significant amount of energy, requiring effective management solutions to ensure its performance and sustainability. The increased position of hotels as prosumers plus the renewable energy technologies, complicate the design of these systems, which depends on the use of reliable predict6ions for energy load. Based on artificial neural networks (ANN), regression approaches such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit networks (GRU), this research proposes an intelligent model for predicting energy demand in a hotel. Validation was performed using real hotel data likened to time-series models. The resulting forecasts were remarkable, indicating a promising potential for its usage in hotel energy management systems.