Patents by Inventor Wendy Foslien
Wendy Foslien 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: 20240003571Abstract: A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Ademco Inc.Inventors: David Quam, Amy Ragland, Steven R. Peterson, Brad Paine, Pedro Davalos, Soumitri Kolavennu, Wendy Foslien
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Publication number: 20230185319Abstract: A tool for providing a visualization of a system may reveal an interactive navigation environment for building performance observation and assessment. The tool may be associated with a processor. The environment may incorporate a treemap, a graph pane, a treemap filter, a graph pane selector, a selected units box and a date/time control mechanism. A visualization of the environment, among other things, may be presented on a display. The treemap may exhibit a building geometry and/or equipment units hierarchically, along with some data information. Units may be interactively selected from the treemap and placed in the box for analysis. The graph pane may show a configuration and display of unit analysis. Selection of detailed views for units in the box may be provided by the graph pane selector. Date and time intervals for analysis may be selected by the control mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Matthew E. Garr, Jiri Rojicek, Vladimir Bicik, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 11592851Abstract: A tool for providing a visualization of a system may reveal an interactive navigation environment for building performance observation and assessment. The tool may be associated with a processor. The environment may incorporate a treemap, a graph pane, a treemap filter, a graph pane selector, a selected units box and a date/time control mechanism. A visualization of the environment, among other things, may be presented on a display. The treemap may exhibit a building geometry and/or equipment units hierarchically, along with some data information. Units may be interactively selected from the treemap and placed in the box for analysis. The graph pane may show a configuration and display of unit analysis. Selection of detailed views for units in the box may be provided by the graph pane selector. Date and time intervals for analysis may be selected by the control mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Matthew E. Garr, Jiri Rojicek, Vladimir Bicik, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 11566802Abstract: A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: David Quam, Amy Ragland, Steven R. Peterson, Brad Paine, Pedro Davalos, Soumitri Kolavennu, Wendy Foslien
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Publication number: 20220082254Abstract: A method includes processing data associated with operation of equipment in an industrial process to repeatedly (i) identify one or more models that mathematically represent the operation of the equipment using training data and (ii) generate first indicators potentially identifying at least one specified condition of the equipment using evaluation data and the one or more models. The method also includes classifying the first indicators into multiple classes. The multiple classes include true positive indicators and false positive indicators. The true positive indicators identify that the equipment is suffering from the at least one specified condition. The false positive indicators identify that the equipment is not suffering from the at least one specified condition. The method further includes generating a notification indicating that the equipment is suffering from the at least one specified condition in response to one or more first indicators being classified into the class of true positive indicators.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Constantine A. Vitt, Anna Olecka, Randy M. Miller, Francois Leclerc, Wendy Foslien, Hao He, William Groves
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Publication number: 20210223806Abstract: A tool for providing a visualization of a system may reveal an interactive navigation environment for building performance observation and assessment. The tool may be associated with a processor. The environment may incorporate a treemap, a graph pane, a treemap filter, a graph pane selector, a selected units box and a date/time control mechanism. A visualization of the environment, among other things, may be presented on a display. The treemap may exhibit a building geometry and/or equipment units hierarchically, along with some data information. Units may be interactively selected from the treemap and placed in the box for analysis. The graph pane may show a configuration and display of unit analysis. Selection of detailed views for units in the box may be provided by the graph pane selector. Date and time intervals for analysis may be selected by the control mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Matthew E. Garr, Jiri Rojicek, Vladimir Bicik, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 10921834Abstract: A tool for providing a visualization of a system may reveal an interactive navigation environment for building performance observation and assessment. The tool may be associated with a processor. The environment may incorporate a treemap, a graph pane, a treemap filter, a graph pane selector, a selected units box and a date/time control mechanism. A visualization of the environment, among other things, may be presented on a display. The treemap may exhibit a building geometry and/or equipment units hierarchically, along with some data information. Units may be interactively selected from the treemap and placed in the box for analysis. The graph pane may show a configuration and display of unit analysis. Selection of detailed views for units in the box may be provided by the graph pane selector. Date and time intervals for analysis may be selected by the control mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Matthew E. Garr, Jiri Rojicek, Vladimir Bicik, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 10783285Abstract: An approach and system for receiving data from a thermostat in a building, treating the data as representative of a thermal response model or system, and determining a relationship between a rate of building internal temperature change and change in outdoor temperature to provide an indication of how well a building is insulated versus a thermal mass of the building.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Girija Parthasarathy, Wendy Foslien, Pedro Davalos
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Patent number: 10754745Abstract: A method of tracking and reporting data associated with a component of a system is provided. The method includes: creating a subscription that is associated with a component of a system based on subscription parameters; receiving component data associated with the component of the system; and generating repotting data based on the subscription and the component data.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Robert E. De Mers, Wendy Foslien
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Publication number: 20200116375Abstract: A method for automatically generating an HVAC schedule for a building includes storing a thermal model for the building, the thermal model including an indication of the energy efficiency of an HVAC system of the building, receiving a weather forecast predicting future weather at the location of the building, receiving a cost estimate for energy that will be supplied to the HVAC system, receiving from a user a desired budget for a cost of operating the HVAC system over a future period of time, using the thermal model, the weather forecast, the cost estimate for energy and the desired budget of the user to generate an HVAC schedule covering the future period of time that is predicted to meet the desired budget of the user and controlling the HVAC system using the generated HVAC schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: CHRISTOPHER HEINTZELMAN, NATHANIEL D. KRAFT, WENDY FOSLIEN
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Publication number: 20200064001Abstract: A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: David Quam, Amy Ragland, Steven R. Peterson, Brad Paine, Pedro Davalos, Soumitri Kolavennu, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 10545518Abstract: A controller for controlling energy consumption in a home includes a constraints engine to define variables for multiple appliances in the home corresponding to various home modes and persona of an occupant of the home. A modeling engine models multiple paths of energy utilization of the multiple appliances to place the home into a desired state from a current context. An optimal scheduler receives the multiple paths of energy utilization and generates a schedule as a function of the multiple paths and a selected persona to place the home in a desired state.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien Graber, Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri N. Kolavennu, Keith L. Curtner
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Publication number: 20200004277Abstract: A tool for providing a visualization of a system may reveal an interactive navigation environment for building performance observation and assessment. The tool may be associated with a processor. The environment may incorporate a treemap, a graph pane, a treemap filter, a graph pane selector, a selected units box and a date/time control mechanism. A visualization of the environment, among other things, may be presented on a display. The treemap may exhibit a building geometry and/or equipment units hierarchically, along with some data information. Units may be interactively selected from the treemap and placed in the box for analysis. The graph pane may show a configuration and display of unit analysis. Selection of detailed views for units in the box may be provided by the graph pane selector. Date and time intervals for analysis may be selected by the control mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Matthew E. Garr, Jiri Rojicek, Vladimir Bicik, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 10454702Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a programmable thermostat are described herein. One or more system embodiments include a programmable thermostat having a first management profile; a data acquisition subsystem; and a data analysis subsystem. The data acquisition subsystem is configured to receive thermostat data from the programmable thermostat, and the data analysis subsystem is configured to receive the thermostat data from the data acquisition subsystem, and determine a second management profile for the programmable thermostat based, at least in part, on the thermostat data.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien, Keith Curtner, Purnaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri Kolavennu
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Patent number: 10429862Abstract: A tool for providing a visualization of a system may reveal an interactive navigation environment for building performance observation and assessment. The tool may be associated with a processor. The environment may incorporate a treemap, a graph pane, a treemap filter, a graph pane selector, a selected units box and a date/time control mechanism. A visualization of the environment, among other things, may be presented on a display. The treemap may exhibit a building geometry and/or equipment units hierarchically, along with some data information. Units may be interactively selected from the treemap and placed in the box for analysis. The graph pane may show a configuration and display of unit analysis. Selection of detailed views for units in the box may be provided by the graph pane selector. Date and time intervals for analysis may be selected by the control mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Matthew E. Garr, Jiri Rojicek, Vladimir Bicik, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 10371400Abstract: A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: David Quam, Amy Ragland, Steve R. Peterson, Brad Paine, Pedro Davalos, Soumitri Kolavennu, Wendy Foslien
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Patent number: 10372093Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for mapping a building space using wearable devices in order to better control the comfort level in the building. In some instances, a system compiles information such as temperature information that is provided by an individual's wearable device as the individual moves about the building over time. Using this data, the system may create and/or update a comfort map of the building, which can be used to determine how various rooms of the building heat and cool over time, as well as usage pattern of the various rooms of the building. The system can then use the comfort map of the building to better control one or more comfort sources of the building.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Pedro Davalos, Wendy Foslien, Ajay Pai
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Publication number: 20190155967Abstract: An approach and system for receiving data from a thermostat in a building, treating the data as representative of a thermal response model or system, and determining a relationship between a rate of building internal temperature change and change in outdoor temperature to provide an indication of how well a building is insulated versus a thermal mass of the building.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Girija Parthasarathy, Wendy Foslien, Pedro Davalos
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Patent number: 10204182Abstract: An approach and system for receiving data from a thermostat in a building, treating the data as representative of a thermal response model or system, and determining a relationship between a rate of building internal temperature change and change in outdoor temperature to provide an indication of how well a building is insulated versus a thermal mass of the building.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Ademco, Inc.Inventors: Girija Parthasarathy, Wendy Foslien, Pedro Davalos
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Patent number: 10174962Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection are described herein. One device embodiment includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to determine energy consumption data associated with a structure at a point in time, and determine whether the structure is occupied at the point in time based, at least in part, on the determined energy consumption data.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Pradeep Shetty, Wendy Foslien, Keith Curtner, Prunaprajna R. Mangsuli, Soumitri Kolavennu