Table 1.
Comparison of the proposed survey’s contributions against other existing related related review studies
| ML tools | Computing platforms | Application scenarios | Security issues | Evaluation metrics | Case studies | Future directions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multimodal data analysis | Blockchain | Edgeanalytics | 3D point clouds | |||||||
| Zhang et al. (2021) | ✗ | ✗ | FDAD | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Molina-Solana et al. (2017) | ✓ | ✓ | Energy management | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Zhao et al. (2020) | ✓ | ✓ | Energy management | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Sun et al. (2020) | ✓ | ✗ | Energy prediction | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wang et al. (2021) | ✓ | ✗ | Energy efficiency | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Fan et al. (2018) | ✓ (unsupervised) | ✗ | Energy efficiency | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pinto et al. (2022) | ✓ (transfer learning) | ✗ | Load prediction, system control, occupancy detection, building dynamics | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Our paper | ✓ | ✓ | Energy management FDAD, IEQ, security and safety, occupancy detection and water management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |