In the smart_control/environment/environment.py, the Environment class has a parameter step_interval: pd.Timedelta = pd.Timedelta(15, unit="minutes"). This parameter is used to calculate the number of timesteps in the episode:

self._num_timesteps_in_episode = int(
        (self._end_timestamp - self._start_timestamp) / self._step_interval
)

However, in the smart_control/models/base_building.py file, the BaseBuilding class has a @property def time_step_sec(self) -> float: property, which is used by the Environment class to calculate the steps_per_episode property:

  @property
  def steps_per_episode(self) -> int:
    return (
        self._end_timestamp - self._start_timestamp
    ).total_seconds() // self.building.time_step_sec

This seems ambiguous to me: if the value of step_interval does not correspond to the same value as time_step_sec, there will be a divergence in the number of steps

Here, do these two parameters indicate the same concept? (In which case we can get rid of the step_interval parameter of the Environment class?)

Or do they indicate different concepts? (In which case the implementation of Environment must be changed?)