1 Introduction

2 Overview of building power consumption datasets

2.1 State of the art of existing datasets

2.2 Taxonomy

2.3 Applications

2.4 Characteristics comparison of existing datasets

2.5 Data collection platforms

3 Discussion and important findings

3.1 Discussion

3.2 Qatar University dataset (QUD)

4 Future directions

4.1 Improving the dataset collection

4.2 Improving the dataset exploitation

5 Conclusion