Patents by Inventor Himanshu Khurana
Himanshu Khurana has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240127960Abstract: A method of monitoring building compliance with healthy building guidelines includes obtaining current parameter values for a plurality of different parameters from a plurality of sensors disposed within a plurality of different zones of a building. For each of the parameters, the current parameter value received from each of the plurality of different zones is compared with a corresponding healthy building range for that parameter as specified by the healthy building guidelines. A healthy building dashboard is displayed that includes a summary that shows, for each of the plurality of different parameters, how many zones of the plurality of different zones of the building are within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter and/or how many zones of the plurality of different zones are not within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Rajkumar Palanivel, Himanshu Khurana, Deenadayalan Karunakaran, Chandrakantha Chandra, Hemant Jagannath Wadnere, Ganapati Hegde, Naveen Kumar Dindukurthi Sivaprasad, Chen Xu
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Patent number: 11894145Abstract: A method of monitoring building compliance with healthy building guidelines includes obtaining current parameter values for a plurality of different parameters from a plurality of sensors disposed within a plurality of different zones of a building. For each of the parameters, the current parameter value received from each of the plurality of different zones is compared with a corresponding healthy building range for that parameter as specified by the healthy building guidelines. A healthy building dashboard is displayed that includes a summary that shows, for each of the plurality of different parameters, how many zones of the plurality of different zones of the building are within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter and/or how many zones of the plurality of different zones are not within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Rajkumar Palanivel, Himanshu Khurana, Deenadayalan Karunakaran, Chandrakantha Chandra, Hemant Jagannath Wadnere, Ganapati Hegde, Naveen Kumar Dindukurthi Sivaprasad, Chen Xu
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Patent number: 11862020Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for parking management are described herein. One device includes instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive a first indication via a mobile device that a user intends to park a vehicle in a parking spot of a parking area, display directions to an available parking spot in the parking area via the mobile device, receive a second indication via the mobile device that the user has parked the vehicle in the available parking spot, and provide a third indication via a different mobile device that the available parking spot is no longer available.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Himanshu Khurana
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Patent number: 11714392Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a building. An illustrative method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building, using the received sensor data to control one or more building management components to control one or more environmental conditions within the building, normalizing the sensor data and storing the normalized sensor data, comparing the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated the building, and providing a recommended action to improve at least one of the one or more identified anomalies of the building.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Himanshu Khurana, John Cronin, Michael Baker, Jared P. Faber
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Patent number: 11619414Abstract: A system and approach for profiling a building in terms of healthy indoor air quality. A health of the building may be defined and then measured. The process of defining and measuring may be continuous. With an enablement of artificial intelligence, a healthy building operation advisor service may support the process.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Himanshu Khurana, Wadnere Hemant Jagannath, Parthasarathy Chinnachamy, Naveen Kumar Dindukurthi Sivaprasad, Zhen Jun Mei
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Publication number: 20230032659Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for access control via a mobile device are described herein. One method includes receiving location information associated with a mobile device in a facility, determining that the mobile device is within a particular distance of an area of the facility based on the location information, determining whether a user of the mobile device is allowed access to the area, and allowing access to the area via a relay associated with the area responsive to a determination that the user is allowed access.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Sanjay Roy, Frank Lin, Bryan Jones, Datta Godbole, Himanshu Khurana
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Patent number: 11567467Abstract: Methods and systems for configuring a modular building control system. An illustrative method may include entering a configuration mode in a base module and in each of the expansion modules. While in the configuration mode, the base module may collect information from each of the expansion modules. A system configuration may be created for the modular building control system based at least in part on the collected information and includes configuration parameters for the base module and each of the expansion modules. The base module may transmit to each of the expansion modules their respective configuration parameters. The base module and each of the expansion modules may install their respective configuration parameters, exit the configuration mode, and enter an operation mode. While in the operation mode, the base module and each of the expansion modules may control the modular building control system.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Rong Bao Nie, Himanshu Khurana, Jared P. Faber
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Patent number: 11516660Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for access control via a mobile device are described herein. One method includes receiving location information associated with a mobile device in a facility, determining that the mobile device is within a particular distance of an area of the facility based on the location information, determining whether a user of the mobile device is allowed access to the area, and allowing access to the area via a relay associated with the area responsive to a determination that the user is allowed access.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Sanjay Roy, Frank Lin, Bryan Jones, Datta Godbole, Himanshu Khurana
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Patent number: 11402813Abstract: Methods and system for adding sensors/devices to a building management system. An illustrative universal backplane for accepting a plurality of building control sensors may include a housing configured to be secured relative to a wall of a building and a plurality of universal sensor receiving bays each including the same mechanical and electrical interface for selectively receiving one of a plurality of compatible building control sensors. Each of the plurality of compatible building control sensors may be compatible with the mechanical and electrical interface of the universal sensor receiving bays. The backplane may further include a controller operatively coupled to each of the plurality of universal sensor receiving bays, the controller configured to automatically discover each of the compatible building control sensors, if any, received by the plurality of universal sensor receiving bays and a communication module operatively coupled to the controller for communicating with a building control system.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Rajkumar Palanivel, Himanshu Khurana, Amit Kulkarni, Rongbao Nie
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Patent number: 11336648Abstract: A method and apparatus for document collaboration and management are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a document may be incorporated in a document directory maintained by a document collaboration and management service. A portable representation underlay based on the document may be generated using one or more asynchronous workflows and the portable representation underlay may be provided in response to a user request.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Noah Anthony Eisner, Kevin Gillett, Himanshu Khurana, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Nagesh Pradhan Cadabam, Liangliang Wang, Sharad Kala, Stephen Joseph Oakley, Nandhini Nandiwada Santhanam
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Publication number: 20220108233Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for building space reservation are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a display, a memory, and a processor to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a reservation request including building space details for a building space in a building via the display, determine a building space in the building satisfying the building space details based on a location of a mobile device in the building, and reserve the determined building space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Ananth Sozhan, Mandar Tigga, Roshan Lawrence Valder, Manu Taranath, Shouvik Brahma, Anil Bondada, Himanshu Khurana, Sanjay Roy, Aditya Arun, Murugan Gopalan
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Publication number: 20220102007Abstract: A method of monitoring building compliance with healthy building guidelines includes obtaining current parameter values for a plurality of different parameters from a plurality of sensors disposed within a plurality of different zones of a building. For each of the parameters, the current parameter value received from each of the plurality of different zones is compared with a corresponding healthy building range for that parameter as specified by the healthy building guidelines. A healthy building dashboard is displayed that includes a summary that shows, for each of the plurality of different parameters, how many zones of the plurality of different zones of the building are within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter and/or how many zones of the plurality of different zones are not within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Rajkumar Palanivel, Himanshu Khurana, Deenadayalan Karunakaran, Chandrakantha Chandra, Hemant Jagannath Wadnere, Ganapathi Hegde, Naveen Kumar Dindukurthi Sivaprasad, Chen Xu
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Publication number: 20220011001Abstract: A system and approach for profiling a building in terms of healthy indoor air quality. A health of the building may be defined and then measured. The process of defining and measuring may be continuous. With an enablement of artificial intelligence, a healthy building operation advisor service may support the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Himanshu Khurana, Wadnere Hemant Jagannath, Parthasarathy Chinnachamy, Naveen Kumar Dindukurthi Sivaprasad, Zhen Jun Mei
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Publication number: 20210373515Abstract: Methods and systems for configuring a modular building control system. An illustrative method may include entering a configuration mode in a base module and in each of the expansion modules. While in the configuration mode, the base module may collect information from each of the expansion modules. A system configuration may be created for the modular building control system based at least in part on the collected information and includes configuration parameters for the base module and each of the expansion modules. The base module may transmit to each of the expansion modules their respective configuration parameters. The base module and each of the expansion modules may install their respective configuration parameters, exit the configuration mode, and enter an operation mode. While in the operation mode, the base module and each of the expansion modules may control the modular building control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Rong Bao Nie, Himanshu Khurana, Jared P. Faber
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Publication number: 20210333770Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a building. An illustrative method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building, using the received sensor data to control one or more building management components to control one or more environmental conditions within the building, normalizing the sensor data and storing the normalized sensor data, comparing the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated the building, and providing a recommended action to improve at least one of the one or more identified anomalies of the building.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Himanshu Khurana, John Cronin, Michael Baker, Jared P. Faber
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Patent number: 11079731Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a building. An illustrative method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building, using the received sensor data to control one or more building management components to control one or more environmental conditions within the building, normalizing the sensor data and storing the normalized sensor data, comparing the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated the building, and providing a recommended action to improve at least one of the one or more identified anomalies of the building.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Himanshu Khurana, John Cronin, Michael Baker, Jared P. Faber
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Publication number: 20210208555Abstract: Methods and system for adding sensors/devices to a building management system. An illustrative universal backplane for accepting a plurality of building control sensors may include a housing configured to be secured relative to a wall of a building and a plurality of universal sensor receiving bays each including the same mechanical and electrical interface for selectively receiving one of a plurality of compatible building control sensors. Each of the plurality of compatible building control sensors may be compatible with the mechanical and electrical interface of the universal sensor receiving bays. The backplane may further include a controller operatively coupled to each of the plurality of universal sensor receiving bays, the controller configured to automatically discover each of the compatible building control sensors, if any, received by the plurality of universal sensor receiving bays and a communication module operatively coupled to the controller for communicating with a building control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Rajkumar Palanivel, Himanshu Khurana, Amit Kulkarni, Rongbao Nie
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Publication number: 20210153015Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for access control via a mobile device are described herein. One method includes receiving location information associated with a mobile device in a facility, determining that the mobile device is within a particular distance of an area of the facility based on the location information, determining whether a user of the mobile device is allowed access to the area, and allowing access to the area via a relay associated with the area responsive to a determination that the user is allowed access.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Sanjay Roy, Frank Lin, Bryan Jones, Datta Godbole, Himanshu Khurana
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Patent number: 11004288Abstract: Visitor meeting registration and management is described herein. One device includes a user interface, memory, and processor to receive, from a user of the mobile device via the user interface, an invitation code associated with an invitation received by the mobile device for a meeting at a facility, display, on the user interface upon receiving the invitation code, a registration screen for the meeting, receive, from the user via the registration screen displayed on the user interface, registration information for the meeting, send the registration information to a computing device associated with the facility, receive, from the computing device, an identification mechanism for the user, provide the identification mechanism for the user to a visitor validation device at an entry point to the facility, and receive, from the computing device upon providing the identification mechanism to the visitor validation device, a digital badge for accessing the facility.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Murugan Gopalan, Roshan Lawrence Valder, Magesh Lingan, Tanya Mahajan, Sanjay Roy, Himanshu Khurana, Mandar Tigga, Manu Taranath, Shouvik Brahma
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Publication number: 20210103260Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a building. An illustrative method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building, using the received sensor data to control one or more building management components to control one or more environmental conditions within the building, normalizing the sensor data and storing the normalized sensor data, comparing the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated the building, and providing a recommended action to improve at least one of the one or more identified anomalies of the building.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Himanshu Khurana, John Cronin, Michael Baker, Jared P. Faber