Patents Assigned to Johnson Controls Technology
  • Patent number: 11061132
    Abstract: A building radar-camera system includes a camera configured to capture one or images, the one or more images including first locations within the one or more images of one or more points on a world-plane and a radar system configured to capture radar data indicating second locations on the world-plane of the one or more points. The system includes one or more processing circuits configured to receive a correspondence between the first locations and the second locations of the one or more points, generate a sphere-to-plane homography, the sphere-to-plane homography translating between points captured by the camera modeled on a unit-sphere and the world-plane based on the correspondence between the first locations and the second locations, and translate one or more additional points captured by the camera or captured by the radar system between the unit-sphere and the world-plane based on the sphere-to-plane homography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Lior Kirsch, Yohai Falik, Igal Dvir
  • Patent number: 11061424
    Abstract: A central plant includes storage devices configured to store resources purchased from a utility or generated by the central plant and to discharge the one or more resources. The central plant includes a controller configured to obtain a cost function comprising a peak load contribution (PLC) term representing a cost based on an amount of the one or more resources purchased during coincidental peak (CP) subperiods. The controller is configured to modify the cost function by applying a peak subperiods mask to the PLC term, wherein, for each subperiod, the peak subperiods mask modifies a portion of the PLC term corresponding to the subperiod based on a probability that the subperiod will be one of the CP subperiods. The controller is also configured to perform an optimization of the modified cost function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 11060746
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a refrigerant circuit and a sensor configured to measure a refrigerant concentration external to the refrigeration circuit. The HVAC system also includes a controller that is communicatively coupled to the sensor and to an economizer. The controller is configured to control a flow of environmental air into the HVAC system. The controller is further configured to increase a ratio of the flow of environmental air relative to a flow of return air from a conditioned interior space of a building when the sensor measures the refrigerant concentration above a predetermined threshold concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Steven M. Maddox, William F. McQuade
  • Publication number: 20210209532
    Abstract: A controller for a system of equipment that operate to produce or consume one or more resources includes one or more processing circuits configured to generate a resource balance constraint using a balance between a first amount of each resource and a second amount of each resource. The first amount of each resource includes at least an amount of the resource produced by the equipment. The second amount of each resource includes at least an amount of the resource consumed by the equipment. The one or more processing circuits are configured to perform a control process using the resource balance constraint to determine amounts of each resource to be produced or consumed by the equipment and operate the equipment to produce or consume the amounts of each resource determined by the control process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Matthew J. Ellis
  • Publication number: 20210208546
    Abstract: A building management system with artificial intelligence based control of a building includes data collectors are configured to receive data and generate data streams for subsystems of the building. The system includes a learning engine configured to identify a building state of the building by correlating data of the data streams for the subsystems and provide the identified building state to cognitive agents. The system includes the cognitive agents, each of the cognitive agents configured to receive the identified building state from the learning engine, generate a control decision based on the received building state, and operate at least one of the plurality of subsystems of the building to control a physical condition of the building based on the control decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert Locke, Sudhi R. Sinha
  • Publication number: 20210208547
    Abstract: A method for controlling equipment includes grouping a plurality of granular assets to form one or more general assets and generating models of the general assets based on the granular assets that form the general assets. Each model corresponds to a general asset and defines a relationship between resources produced by the general asset and resources consumed by the general asset. The method includes performing a first control process using the models of the general assets to determine a first allocation of resources among the general assets. The first allocation defines amounts of the resources to be consumed, produced, or stored by each of the general assets. The method includes operating the equipment to consume, produce, or store the resources in accordance with the first allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: John H. Burroughs, Andrew J. Przybylski, Michael J. Wenzel, Matthew J. Ellis
  • Publication number: 20210207841
    Abstract: A trim plate for a wall mounting assembly is shown. The trim plate includes a body defined by a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end defining a front section and the second end defining a rear section, the body defining a passageway extending from the rear section, through the body, to the front section. The body includes a plurality of mounting holes formed through the body and spaced apart from one another around the passageway. The body further includes a positioning feature formed outward from the passageway and spaced apart from the mounting holes. The positioning feature is defined by rearwardly extending walls partially surrounding an aperture formed through the front section of the body, the rearwardly extending walls defining a pocket formed therebetween, the pocket extending along the rear section beyond the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Richard David Friend, Justin C. Pasquale
  • Publication number: 20210207836
    Abstract: A temperature control system. The control system includes a flow sensor configured to monitor water flow through a valve, an actuator coupled to the valve, and a first controller configured to establish a setpoint for a second controller. The second controller monitors fluid flow through the valve and combines a weighted first command from the first controller and a weighted second command from the second controller to generate a control signal, wherein combining the weighted first command and the weighted second command is based on the reliability of the flow sensor. The second controller further controls the actuator based on the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Carlos Felipe Alcala Perez, Timothy I. Salsbury
  • Publication number: 20210208559
    Abstract: A building management system includes an entity database, a software defined gateway, and an entity service. The entity database stores a plurality of interconnected smart entities including object entities representing a plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces and data entities representing data associated with the plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities. The software defined gateway is configured to receive information technology (IT) data and operational technology (OT) data from a plurality of different data sources. The entity service is configured to create a new smart entity in the entity database or update an existing smart entity in the entity database using the IT data and the OT data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati
  • Publication number: 20210207828
    Abstract: A control device for a building, the control device includes a single user interface configured to receive a first signal from a first user input and a second signal from a second user input. The control device further includes a processing circuit configured to receive both the first signal and the second signal within a predetermined period of time. The processing circuit is further configured to perform a first action based on the first signal when the first signal is received before the second signal and not perform a second action in response to the second signal and perform the second action based on the second signal when the second signal is received before the first signal and not perform the first action in response to the first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Richard David Friend, Justin C. Pasquale
  • Patent number: 11054172
    Abstract: A housing system for heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment includes a housing configured to shroud the HVAC equipment and also includes a plurality of louver panels disposed on the housing. Each louver panel of the plurality of louver panels is configured to translate between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, each louver panel of the plurality of louver panels is configured to permit airflow between an interior of the housing and an ambient environment. In the open position, each louver panel of the plurality of louver panels is configured to permit increased airflow between the interior of the housing and the ambient environment when the louver panel is in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Appiya B. Suriya Prakash, Dnyandev G. Vanare, Ganesh S. Devkhile, Anil V. Bhosale
  • Patent number: 11054170
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a return air section of an HVAC unit configured to receive a return airflow from a conditioned space. The HVAC system also includes an outdoor air section of the HVAC unit configured to receive an outdoor airflow from an environment surrounding the HVAC unit. Furthermore, the (HVAC) system includes a panel dividing the return air section and the outdoor air section. The panel includes a bypass damper actuatable to enable mixing of the return airflow and the outdoor airflow to produce a mixed airflow in the outdoor air section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Arun S. Palle, Pankaj B. Avhad, Dnyanesh C. Deshmukh
  • Patent number: 11057244
    Abstract: A smart gateway device for providing communications between multiple networks associated with a building management system (BMS). The device includes a first network interface circuit in communication with a first network associated with a building management system (BMS). The device further includes a second network interface circuit in communication with a second network associated with a subsystem of the BMS, wherein the second network is not compatible with the first network. The second network interface circuit is configured to detect a physical device associated with the second network, and to receive a data packet associated with the physical device. The data packet is transmitted to the first network interface circuit. The first network interface circuit is configured to receive the data packet and to generate a virtual device based on the received data packet. The virtual device is configured to represent the physical device on the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Shawn D. Schubert, Donald A. Gottschalk, Daniel M. Curtis
  • Publication number: 20210200792
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to retrieve projection rules for generating a building graph projection. The instructions cause the one or more processors to retrieve a plurality of entities representing elements of the building and a plurality of relationships between the plurality of entities representing relationships between the plurality of entities, construct the building graph projection including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges based on the plurality of entities, the plurality of relationships, and the projection rules, and perform one or more operations based on the building graph projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Publication number: 20210200169
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a capability of an entity in a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building including the entity and the capability, the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building and the capability. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an operation associated with the entity, the operation associated with the capability of the entity and provide the command to perform the operation associated with the entity to an operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Publication number: 20210200173
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an event from an event source, the event indicating a data value associated with the event source occurring at a particular time. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify contextual data of a database that provides a contextual description of the event, generate an enriched event by enriching the event with the contextual data, the enriched event including the data value, the particular time, and the contextual data, and provide the enriched event to a consuming application configured to operate based on the enriched event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Publication number: 20210200174
    Abstract: A system includes one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including receiving building information model (BIM) data associated with a building comprising one or more building assets, identifying one or more BIM objects within the BIM, identifying one or more object relationships between the one or more BIM object, applying a semantic description to each of the one or more BIM objects and the one or more object relationships, and generating a hierarchy structure for the building based on the one of more BIM objects and the one or more object relationships. The one or more BIM objects are associated with the one or more building assets and the hierarchy structure includes the semantic description of each of the one or more BIM objects and the one or more object relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Ashok Sridharan, Ankur Thareja, Subrata Bhattacharya, Barnini Chatterjee, Shailesh Mahadeo Tavate, Shyam Sunder, Sachin Ghorpade, Piyush Mahajan, Akash Kumar
  • Publication number: 20210200165
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a digital twin of the building comprising a graph data structure, the graph data structure comprising a plurality of nodes representing entities of the building and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive an modification to the digital twin of the building, generate a change feed event of a change feed, the change feed event recording the modification to the graph data structure, and synchronize, based on the change feed event, an external digital twin of the building of an external system with the digital twin of the building by communicating with the external system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Patent number: D924888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Dennis J. Flood, Alan S. Schwegler, Steve M. Schmidt, Nicole A. Madison, Pat Harder
  • Patent number: D924890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Dennis J. Flood, Alan S. Schwegler, Steve M. Schmidt, Nicole A. Madison, Pat Harder