Patents by Inventor Mark Cascia

Mark Cascia 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).

  • Patent number: 9708852
    Abstract: Methods for integrated room management in a building management system and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes determining a solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) for a room in a building and determining predicted room temperatures for the room at the plurality of time intervals based on the SHGC and a plurality of window blinds tilt angles. The method includes determining illumination heat and illumination energy for the room and determining climate energy for the room. The method includes determining a total room energy as a function of the window blinds tilt angles based on the climate energy, illumination energy, and predicted room temperatures. The method includes determining an optimal blind tilt angle that minimizes the total room energy at each of the time intervals and controlling the tilt angles of window blinds according to the optimal blind tilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC.
    Inventor: Mark Cascia
  • Publication number: 20160333638
    Abstract: Methods for integrated room management in a building management system and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes determining a solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) for a room in a building and determining predicted room temperatures for the room at the plurality of time intervals based on the SHGC and a plurality of window blinds tilt angles. The method includes determining illumination heat and illumination energy for the room and determining climate energy for the room. The method includes determining a total room energy as a function of the window blinds tilt angles based on the climate energy, illumination energy, and predicted room temperatures. The method includes determining an optimal blind tilt angle that minimizes the total room energy at each of the time intervals and controlling the tilt angles of window blinds according to the optimal blind tilt angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Mark Cascia
  • Publication number: 20050192680
    Abstract: A system generates optimal global set points for an environmental management system. The system comprises a system model for modeling components of a thermal plant, an objective function for modeling a parameter of the thermal plant, and an optimization engine for optimizing the parameter modeled by the objective function. The system model is coupled to an input data collector for receiving building data and weather data corresponding to a particular site. The system model includes models for thermal plant system components that may be implemented using classical models or artificial intelligence models. Classical models are those models that are implemented using linear programming, unconstrained non-linear programming, or constrained non-linear programming methodologies. The artificial intelligence models are those models that may be implemented using a fuzzy expert control system with crisp and fuzzy rules, genetic algorithms for optimization, or neural networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Mark Cascia, Osman Ahmed