Patents Assigned to Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings
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Patent number: 11959657Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for receiving at least one calibration heat signal from a calibration device, wherein the at least one calibration heat signal corresponds to a calibration temperature known to the controller, receiving a plurality of heat signals from a plurality of sources in the building, determining a plurality of temperatures associated with the plurality of heat signals based on the at least one calibration heat signal and the calibration temperature, determining an internal target temperature of the building based on the plurality of temperatures, and transmitting, to the HVAC system, a control signal indicating the internal target temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventor: Jason M. Ouellette
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Publication number: 20240118670Abstract: An control method includes obtaining measurements of a carbon dioxide (CO2) level of a zone and a temperature of the zone. The method includes determining, based on the CO2 level of the zone and the temperature of the zone, a combination if (i) control decisions for an air handling unit (AHU) and (ii) control decisions for a damper of a variable air volume (VAV) unit to satisfy both a ventilation control objective and a temperature control objective. The control decisions for the AHU include adjustments to a fresh air intake fraction of the AHU between multiple values over time, and the control decisions for the VAV unit include adjustments to a position of a damper of the VAV unit over time. The method includes operating the AHU according to the control decisions for the AHU and operate the VAV unit according to the control decisions for the VAV unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Anas W. I. Alanqar, Michael J. Wenzel, Jon Douglas, Fang Du
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Patent number: 11953865Abstract: A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment including a processing circuit configured to perform a first optimization to generate a first set of control decisions for HVAC equipment including waterside HVAC equipment that consume resources from utility providers to generate a heated or chilled fluid and airside HVAC equipment that receive and use the fluid from the waterside HVAC equipment to heat or cool a supply of airflow for a building. The processing circuit is configured to perform a second optimization subject to a constraint based on a result of the first optimization to generate a second set of control decisions for the HVAC equipment and to combine the first and second sets to generate a combined set of control decisions for the HVAC equipment. The processing circuit is configured to operate the HVAC equipment in accordance with the combined set of control decisions.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Robert D. Turney, Christos T. Maravelias
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Patent number: 11954713Abstract: A variable refrigerant flow system for a building includes a plurality of indoor units, a first outdoor unit, an outdoor meter, and a variable refrigerant flow management system. The plurality of indoor units configured to generate activation requests. The first outdoor unit is configured to receive the activation requests and, in response to the activation requests, provide a refrigerant to the plurality of indoor units. The outdoor meter is configured to provide an outdoor unit electricity consumption measurement. The variable refrigerant flow management system is configured to receive the outdoor unit electricity consumption measurement and activation data indicating the activation requests and apportion an outdoor share of the outdoor electricity consumption measurement to each of the plurality of indoor units based on the activation data.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Anupam Ajit Ingale, Ankur Thareja, Subrata Bhattacharya, Prasanna Bari, Braja Majumdar, Tousif H. Khan
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Patent number: 11954154Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining for each of a plurality of respective BMS objects respective semantic information for each of the plurality of the respective BMS objects, the respective semantic information being stored on the each of the respective BMS objects, identifying a plurality of predetermined classifications that pertain to the plurality of the respective BMS objects using the respective semantic information, classifying the plurality of BMS objects using the plurality of predetermined classifications, updating a semantic site model associated with the building site by including the respective semantic information associated with the plurality of the respective BMS objects and adjusting a plurality of parameters associated with the respective BMS objects using the semantic site model.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Kunal Saini, Gerald A. Asp, Matthew T. Trawicki, Craig A. Lind
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Patent number: 11953871Abstract: A controller for a building including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include parsing a computer-aided design (CAD) file or a building information model (BIM) file for the building to identify building equipment that operates to affect a variable state or condition of a zone of the building. The operations include generating one or more zone models describing one or more control relationships between the building equipment and the variable state or condition of the zone based on the CAD file or the BIM file. The operations include using the one or more zone models to perform a model-based operation for the building equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Serdar Suindykov, Mohammad N. Elbsat
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Patent number: 11953894Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment operable to affect a variable state or condition of a building and a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain a vibration data set related to vibrations of the building equipment and analyze the vibration data set by one or more machine learning models to generate a set of probabilities. The set of probabilities is related to a probability that the vibration data set is abnormal. The processing circuit is configured to identify the vibration data set as normal or abnormal based on the set of probabilities and initiate a corrective action responsive to identifying the vibration data set as abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Kelsey Carle Schuster, Christopher J. Verink
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Patent number: 11946573Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a conduit assembly with a first conduit segment, a second conduit segment, and a rotational fitting fluidly coupling the first conduit segment and the second conduit segment to one another. The conduit assembly is configured to fluidly couple to a port of a heat exchanger of the HVAC system, and the rotational fitting is configured to enable the first conduit segment and the second conduit segment to rotate relative to one another between a first orientation and a second orientation and maintain a connection between the first conduit segment and the second conduit segment during relative rotation between the first conduit segment and the second conduit segment.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Abhijeet Rajesh Salunkke, Rohan Kailas More, Sushilkumar Dnyandev Gorad, Timothy John Wilson, Angus B. Latham
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Patent number: 11938357Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an air handling unit having a housing that defines an air flow path therethrough, a heat exchanger disposed within the air flow path and configured to flow a working fluid therethrough, and a nozzle configured to deliver a fire suppression agent into the air flow path.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: James E. Bogart, Derek M. Sandahl
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Patent number: 11940767Abstract: Systems and methods of operating a collaborative building network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of operating a building management system includes acquiring, by a first computing system, data using one or more sensors of a first building of a first entity, providing, by the first computing system, a set of sharing rules for the acquired data, determining, by the first computing system by applying the set of sharing rules, whether to share the acquired data with a second computing system associated with a second building of a second entity, and providing, by the first computing system, the acquired data to the second computing system responsive to the determination.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Ronan Fineen Hennessy, Róisín Ann O'Brien, Eamonn Jerry O'Toole
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Patent number: 11933678Abstract: A method for determining ambient temperature of a device in a building control system. The method includes obtaining a measurement of ambient temperature from a first temperature sensor of the device and obtaining a measurement of temperature of a processing circuit of the device. These temperature measurements along with a brightness level of a display of the device and a state of a relay of the device are provided as input to a neural network. The neural network is trained to recognize these inputs in order to more accurately determine the ambient temperature of the device. The reading from the first temperature sensor may otherwise be inaccurate due to heat generated by electronic components of the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Bing Mao, Wensu Lu, Xiaoying Lu, Yingchun Xu
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Patent number: 11934966Abstract: A building system including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an indication to execute an artificial intelligence (AI) agent of a digital twin, the digital twin including the AI agent and a graph data structure, the graph data structure including nodes representing entities of a building and edges between the nodes representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to execute the AI agent based on data of the building to generate an inference that is a prediction of a future data value of a data point of the building for a future time and store at least one of the inference, or a link to the inference, in the graph data structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Rajiv Ramanasankaran, Young M. Lee
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Patent number: 11933513Abstract: A method includes obtaining an optimized setpoint schedule for a time period, identifying a pre-cooling or pre-heating segment of the time period of the optimized setpoint schedule, adjusting the optimized setpoint schedule based on a characteristic of the pre-cooling or pre-heating segment to obtain an adjusted setpoint schedule, and operating the building equipment in accordance with the adjusted setpoint schedule.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Anas W. I. Alanqar, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat
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Publication number: 20240089193Abstract: A system for a building includes a device includes a first and second connector. The device also includes a switch having a first, a second, and a third port. The first connector is coupled to the first port of the switch and the second connector is coupled to the second port of the switch. The device also includes a controller that causes the first port to be coupled to the second port when the switch is not involved in communication between the first and second ports and the third port. When the switch is involved in communication between the first and second ports, the first port and the second port are each coupled to the third port, and the third port is coupled to the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventor: Ezra M. Imes
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Patent number: 11927357Abstract: A system includes a plurality of thermostats corresponding to a plurality of HVAC systems that serve a plurality of spaces and a computing system communicable with the plurality of thermostats via a network. The computing system is configured to, for each space of the plurality of spaces, obtain a set of training data relating to thermal behavior of the space, identify a model of thermal behavior of the space based on the set of training data, perform a model predictive control process using the model of thermal behavior of the space to obtain a temperature setpoint for the space, and provide the temperature setpoint to the thermostat corresponding to the HVAC system serving the space. The plurality of thermostats are configured to control the plurality of HVAC systems in accordance with the temperature setpoints.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Kerry M. Bell, Bridget E. Kapler, Alan S. Schwegler, Leyla Mousavi, Kierstyn R. Robbins, Robert D. Turney, Matthew J. Ellis, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. ElBsat, Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal, Brennan H. Fentzlaff
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Patent number: 11928905Abstract: An access control system includes a plurality of sensors and an access controller that includes one or more processors. The sensors detect sensor data regarding a user. The one or more processors receive credential data regarding the user from at least one of an access control device and an electronic wallet, evaluate a medical status using at least one of the sensor data and the credential data, validate access into a space responsive to the medical status being satisfied, and update a record data structure of at least one of the electronic wallet and a distributed ledger using the evaluation of the medical status.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Graeme Jarvis, Jason Ouellette, Christopher Cianciolo, Karl F. Reichenberger
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Patent number: 11927947Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment operable to affect a physical state or condition of a building, a system manager, and a cloud-based data platform. The system manager is coupled to the building equipment via a system bus and configured to obtain alarm data from the building equipment and generate a timeseries sample including the alarm data. The cloud-based data platform includes a timeseries service configured to receive the timeseries sample from the system manager, extract the alarm data from the timeseries sample, and store the alarm data as a sample of an alarm timeseries.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Pravin J. Duraisingh, Lisa E. Strand, Harrison J. Palzewicz
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Patent number: 11927358Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit configured to supply conditioned air to a conditioned space. The HVAC unit includes a first exhaust fan capable of operating at variable speeds and a second constant-speed fan. The HVAC unit also includes a controller configured to determine a target airflow to be provided to the conditioned space, cause actuation of the first exhaust fan at a variable fan speed when the target airflow is greater than zero, and cause actuation of the second exhaust fan when the target airflow is greater than an airflow threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Gaurav S. Patil, Naushad Parapurath Monangat, John L. McElvany, Karan Garg
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Patent number: 11927353Abstract: An outdoor unit for a building HVAC system includes one or more sensors configured to measure temperature and pressure values. The unit also includes a user interface coupled to the outdoor unit. The user interface is configured to display information to a user. The unit includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit configured to record the temperature values and the pressure values via the sensors and cause the user interface to display temperature values and pressure values.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Shaun B. Atchison, Theresa N. Gillette, John W. Uerkvitz, Aneek M. Noor, Brian D. Rigg, Jedidiah O. Bentz, Tyler Mccune, Tom R. Tasker, Shawn A. Hern
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Patent number: D1018332Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Sayan Chakraborty, Richard David Friend