Abstract: A system and method for nighttime lighting control and danger monitoring and alarming are provided. The system includes a data acquisition system, an information processing system, and a terminal control system. The data acquisition system is configured to acquire video information in a room and a voice content of a person in the room, and transmit the video information and the voice content to the information processing system; the information processing system is configured to obtain voice command information based on the voice content and age information and safety state information of the person based on the video information, and transmit the voice command information, the age information and the safety state information to the terminal control system; and the terminal control system is configured to control a terminal lighting fixture, and perform capturing of an image of the person and perform voice alarming according to the safety state information.

Abstract: A device for managing the electrical energy consumption of a set of passenger transport vehicles comprises: —means for receiving a set of consumption information representative of the electrical energy consumed at a given time by the vehicles, —means for determining an overall consumption, from the consumption information received, and —means for generating a set of commands intended respectively for a subset of vehicles selected from among the vehicles of the set according to the service status thereof, the commands being generated to modify the operation of at least one air conditioning system of the vehicles so as to reduce the value of the determined overall consumption to a predefined value. The invention is applicable in passenger transport vehicles powered by an electrical network, such as rail transport vehicles, for example trains, subways, trams, trolleybuses, etc.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for monitoring building efficiency by a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. In an aspect, an HVAC unit including a memory and a processor coupled with the memory is disclosed. The processor may be configured to establish a current building efficiency state value of a current run cycle of the HVAC system. The processor may also be configured to determine an building efficiency state deviation value based on a difference between an average building efficiency state value of a set of previous building efficiency state values and the current building efficiency state value. The processor may further be configured to determine whether the building efficiency state deviation value satisfies a building inefficiency threshold.

Abstract: A machine learning apparatus for optimizing transfer of heat quantity is provided.

Abstract: A relay device that performs reset processing in relation to wired communication with a first device in response to a change in a communication rate of the wired communication with the first device; and in response to performing the reset processing, start control to transmit a predetermined message to a second device even though there is no transmission from the first device, the predetermined message being expected to be transmitted from the first device to the second device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for controlling heat flow between systems of an electric automotive vehicle. An automotive electric vehicle system includes a high voltage battery system including an enclosure, an electric powertrain system, a radiator, coolant lines that permit coolant flow between the high voltage battery system, the power train system and the radiator, one or more valves for routing coolant along the coolant lines, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the one or more valves to control the flow of coolant among a plurality of different, selectable coolant flow states involving the high voltage battery system, the powertrain system and the radiator.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to dynamically configuring a User Interface (UI) dashboard corresponding to an Internet of Things (IoT) device. The UI dashboard is dynamically configured so as to render data that is appropriate to its specific use or application in the UI dashboard. A processor dynamically configuring the UI dashboard receives a device-data definition of data that the IoT device can provide. The processor captures a specific one of a plurality of selectable use cases of the IoT device. The processor configures the UI dashboard based, at least in part, on the specific one of the plurality of selectable use cases captured. The processor receives a data stream provided by the IoT device via the internet, the data stream conforming to the device-data definition. The processor renders the data stream received in the UI dashboard configured. The processor then sends the UI dashboard with the data stream rendered therein to a display device for display.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI)-based air conditioner can include a communication unit and a processor. The communication can receive an image including member data from an image acquisition device, where the member data are associated with one or more different members of a member group and are used to distinguish the members from each other. The processor can recognize the member data from the received image, acquire operation data including operation conditions of the air conditioner, which are desired by the members, based on the recognized member data, store member information including the member data and the operation data in a database, analyze the operation conditions of the air conditioner, which are desired by the members, with respect to each member based on the member information corresponding to the member group stored in the database, and autonomously driving the air conditioner for the different members based on the analyzed operation conditions.

Abstract: A building management system (BMS) provides feedback to a user via a user interface to assist the user in configuring the BMS. It can be challenging for new or less experienced users to understand all of the actions they are performing when configuring a BMS. The feedback presented via the user interface includes graphical and textual feedback to alert the user of actions performed when applying tags. The feedback identifies one or more missing requirements associated with the tags. The feedback presented via the user interface also includes textual summaries of control sequences configured using the BMS. The textual summaries include descriptions of control sequences and instructions for properly configuring the building equipment.

Abstract: A method may include obtaining acquired process data regarding a plant process that is performed by a plant system. The method may further include obtaining from a process model, simulated process data regarding the plant process. The method may further include determining drift data for the process model based on a difference between the acquired process data and the simulated process data. The drift data may correspond to an amount of model drift associated with the process model. The method may further include determining whether the drift data satisfies a predetermined criterion. The method further includes determining, in response to determining that the drift data fails to satisfy the predetermined criterion, a model update for the process model.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a control system for controlling an HVAC device where the control system includes a temperature sensor that provides a signal indicative of a temperature associated with the HVAC device, an orientation sensor that provides a signal indicative of an operating orientation of the HVAC device, and control circuitry that receives the temperature signal and the orientation signal from the orientation sensor. The control circuitry selects an operating thermal control set point from a plurality of stored thermal control set points based at least in part on an orientation signal, determines a temperature sensor input based on the temperature signal and compares the temperature sensor input to the operating thermal control set point, and operates the HVAC device based at least in part on that comparison.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A smart-home device may include a main power rail that provides power to components of the smart-home device; an integrator coupled to the main power rail that stores energy on an energy-storage device, where the energy stored on the energy-storage device is representative of an amount an amount of power provided to the smart-home device through the main power rail during an integration cycle of the integrator; and a counter that stores a number of integration cycles performed by the integrator during a time interval, where a total amount of power provided to the smart-home device through the main power rail during the time interval is represented by: (1) the number of integration cycles performed by the integrator during the time interval; and (2) the energy stored on the energy-storage device.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes: a sensor; an obtainer that obtains information indicating air quality in an indoor space, which is output by the sensor; and a controller that calculates an air quality index based on the information obtained, and controls a ventilator, based on the air quality index calculated. The air quality index is expressed by f(Xn)×g(T, H), where f(Xn) denotes a function with respect to Xn that indicates at least one of a CO2 concentration, a concentration of total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), a concentration of particulate matter (PM), an NOX concentration, an SOX concentration, an O3 concentration, a mold count, or a dust count, and g(T, H) denotes a function with respect to T denoting temperature and H denoting humidity in the indoor space.

Abstract: A device-registration-work assisting system includes a plurality of notification units, and a mobile terminal carriable by a worker. Each notification unit is built in or disposed near one of a plurality of devices subjected to registration work. The mobile terminal includes a display unit configured to display information regarding each of the devices, and a selection unit configured to select a corresponding one of the devices. The notification unit is configured to notify the worker by light, sound, or motion in response to the corresponding device being selected with the selection unit.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprising: (a) receiving a set of physiological data associated with at least one health condition of an animal subject; (b) receiving a set of environmental data associated with one or more environment conditions to which the subject is or has been exposed; (c) determining a set of operating parameters for at least one environmental device based at least partially on at least a portion of the set of physiological data and at least a portion of the set of environmental data; and (d) transmitting the set of operating parameters to the at least one environmental device to at least partially control at least one controlled environmental condition to which the subject is exposed to thereby at partially control the at least one health condition.

Abstract: A ceiling fan according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a shaft coupled onto a ceiling or a wall surface of an indoor space; a motor assembly connected to the shaft to provide rotational power; a plurality of blades coupled to the motor assembly to be rotated; and an electronic component unit coupled to the shaft and positioned in an inner space of the motor assembly, wherein the electronic component unit includes a communication module for interworking with an air conditioning product installed in the indoor space, and a control unit for controlling the air conditioning product and the for assembly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for configuring a management unit connected to at least one home automation equipment comprising at least one home automation device (D) and at least one central control unit (U), the method being implemented by a management unit (Sv) and comprising the following steps: configuring (EcfSv2) an alert (Al) corresponding to the triggering of an alert notification and/or an action when a triggering condition (Cnd) is produced relating to at least one state variable for a home automation device (D), a group of home automation devices (D), a type of home automation device (DT) or a group of types of home automation devices (DT); the step of configuring an alert (Al) being carried out on the basis of instructions of a first user (Usr1) having a first user profile type; declaring (ECfUsr26) the monitoring of an assembly of home automation devices (D) comprising at least one home automation device (D) for which at least one alert (Al) has been configured by a second user (Usr2

Abstract: A switchable filtration system for a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system is disclosed. The filtration system includes a first filter, a second filter, a switching apparatus, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine an air quality score. When the air quality score exceeds a predetermined threshold, the controller controls the switching apparatus to switch the first filter out of an active airflow path. When the air quality score is at or below the predetermined threshold, the controller controls the switching apparatus to switch the first filter into the active airflow path.

Abstract: An air conditioning system having an auxiliary heat source is provided and that may include an outdoor unit, an indoor heat exchanger connected to the outdoor unit, the indoor heat exchanger including a temperature sensor, an auxiliary heat source arranged as an auxiliary to the outdoor unit and operated by an energy source different from an energy source of the outdoor unit, a thermostat configured to control a temperature of an installation space supplied with cold air or warm air by the outdoor unit and the auxiliary heat source, and a communicator. The communicator may include an input unit connected to the thermostat, a first output unit connected to the auxiliary heat source, a second output unit connected to the outdoor unit, and a controller configured to process signals between the input unit, the first output unit, and the second output unit.

Abstract: A detection system includes a microphone, and a detector. The microphone picks up the voice of a visitor. The detector has an opening. The detector collects a microparticle passing through the opening, and detects a predetermined infectious agent contained in the collected microparticle. The opening is disposed below and forward of the microphone so that, when the visitor faces the microphone, the opening is positioned below and forward of the visitor.

Abstract: In one aspect, the invention comprises a system and method for control of a transaction state system utilizing a distributed ledger. First, the system and method includes an application plane layer adapted to receive instructions regarding operation of the transaction state system. Preferably, the application plane layer is coupled to the application plane layer interface. Second, a control plane layer is provided, the control plane layer including an adaptive control unit, such as a cognitive computing unit, artificial intelligence unit or machine-learning unit. Third, a data plane layer includes an input interface to receive data input from one or more data sources and to provide output coupled to a decentralized distributed ledger, the data plane layer is coupled to the control plane layer. Optionally, the system and method serve to implement a smart contract on a decentralized distributed ledger.

Abstract: A building management system includes a controller that is configured to provide a natural language interaction on a remote user interface via an I/O port and to receive one or more building management requests from one or more users as well as to ascertain whether the received one or more building management requests can be carried out by the building management system. The one or more building system components of the building are instructed to carry out the received one or more building management requests unless one or more building management requests cannot be carried out, in which case one or more natural language messages on the remote user interface via the I/O port that informs the user that one or more of the building management requests cannot be carried out.

Abstract: The invention comprises systems and methods for evaluating changes in the operational efficiency of an HVAC system over time. The climate control system obtains temperature measurements from at least a first location conditioned by the climate system, and status of said HVAC system. One or more processors receives measurements of outside temperatures from at least one source other than said HVAC system and compares said temperature measurements from said first location with expected temperature measurements. The expected temperature measurements are based at least in part upon past temperature measurements.

Abstract: A building management system includes connected equipment configured to measure a plurality of monitored variables and a predictive diagnostics system configured to receive the monitored variables from the connected equipment; generate a probability distribution of the plurality of monitored variables; determine a boundary for the probability distribution using a supervised machine learning technique to separate normal conditions from faulty conditions indicated by the plurality of monitored variables; separate the faulty conditions into sub-patterns using an unsupervised machine learning technique to generate a fault prediction model, each sub-pattern corresponding with a fault, and each fault associated with a fault diagnosis; receive a current set of the monitored variables from the connected equipment; determine whether the current set of monitored variables correspond with one of the sub-patterns of the fault prediction model to facilitate predicting whether a corresponding fault will occur; and determin

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for integrated building operations management. Nodes in the sensor network can be configured to interface with a building control system to exchange sensor-related information.

Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a network of wireless remote climate sensors to develop a complete heat map of an enclosed space. The remote climate sensor is configured to collect temperature and humidity data on a zone of the enclosed space. The HVAC system uses a network of these sensors to obtain data points across the enclosed space. The resulting heat map is used by the HVAC system to determine where to direct air in the enclosed space. By comparing the temperature and humidity at a specific remote climate sensor with the user's desired temperature and humidity, the HVAC system can decide whether to increase or decrease the air flow through a variable damper that is located near the remote climate sensor. By conducting this analysis throughout the enclosed space and making incremental adjustments to the air flow in hot and cold spots in the enclosed space, the disclosed HVAC system provides even comfort to the user along with reduced energy consumption.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for summarizing and conveying expected thermal responses is described. Expected thermal responses of a room or an entire structure are calculated based on thermostat setpoints. The expected thermal responses are summarized into an expected thermal response visualization and displayed to a user for easy understanding of current, and future, temperature expectations before or as a room or entire structure is heated or cooled.

Abstract: An air conditioner indoor unit includes a housing, a collection device, and a lifting device. The housing includes a body and a top cover. A top of the body includes a fitting port and the top cover is disposed at the fitting port. The collection device is disposed at the top cover. The lifting device is coupled to the top cover and configured to drive the top cover to move between a storage position and a detection position that allows the collection device to collect external information outside the housing.

Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes HVAC equipment configured to provide heating or cooling to one or more building spaces and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers include one or more processing circuits configured to generate energy targets for the one or more building spaces using a thermal capacitance of the one or more building spaces to which the heating or cooling is provided by the HVAC equipment, generate setpoints for the HVAC equipment using the energy targets for the one or more building spaces to which the heating or cooling is provided by the HVAC equipment, and operate the HVAC equipment using the setpoints to provide the heating or cooling to the one or more building spaces.

Abstract: An environmental control system of a building including a first building device operable to affect environmental conditions of a zone of the building by providing a first input to the zone. The system includes a second building device operable to independently affect a subset of the environmental conditions by providing a second input to the zone and further includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform an optimization to generate control decisions for the building devices. The optimization is performed subject to constraints for the environmental conditions and uses a predictive model that predicts an effect of the control decisions on the environmental conditions. The processing circuit is configured to operate the building devices in accordance with the control decisions.

Abstract: A building management system includes a communications bus, field devices connected to the communications bus, a cloud service including a machine learning engine; and a controller for an HVAC device. The controller communicates with the communications bus and the cloud service and is configured to transmit messages through the communications bus to the field devices, compile a list of connected field devices, receive sample data from the connected field devices, and transmit the sample data from the connected field devices to the cloud service. The controller is further configured to receive identifying characteristics for each of the connected field devices from the cloud service and to select a control logic file for the HVAC device based on the identifying characteristics.

Abstract: A controller in a building management system (BMS) includes an integrated wireless network processor. The integrated wireless network processor includes a wireless radio, a processor, and memory. The wireless radio is configured to exchange data communications with one or more BMS devices controlled by the controller. Both the processor and memory are in communication with the wireless radio. The memory includes communication stacks configured to facilitate communications using a building automation and control network communications protocol and a Wi-Fi communications protocol. The integrated wireless network processor is configured to provide a web page for rendering on the user device using the WiFi communications protocol.

Abstract: Various ways to control the ambient temperature of a room in a structure are described. In one embodiment, a method for intelligently controlling an ambient room temperature in a structure is described, comprising receiving a future outdoor temperature forecast related to a geographic area where the structure is located, and altering a temperature profile for controlling the ambient room temperature based on the future outdoor temperature forecast.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a heat exchanger configured to circulate a working fluid therethrough, a valve configured to regulate a flow rate of the working fluid through the heat exchanger, and a valve controller configured to modify a valve position control signal received from an external controller, separate from the valve controller, based on a temperature differential of the working fluid entering and exiting the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes airside HVAC equipment configured to provide heating or cooling to one or more building spaces and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers are configured to generate airside energy targets for the one or more building spaces using a heat transfer model that defines a relationship between the airside energy targets, a temperature of the one or more building spaces, and a thermal capacitance of the one or more building spaces. The one or more controllers are configured to control the airside HVAC equipment in accordance with the airside energy targets.

Abstract: An HVAC system includes a controller configured to receive weather forecast information including anticipated future outdoor temperatures. Based at least in part on the weather forecast information, the controller determines that test-initiation criteria are satisfied for testing operation of the HVAC system in a test mode. In response to determining that the test-initiation criteria are satisfied, the controller determines that current weather conditions are suitable for operating the HVAC system in the test mode for a test time period. The HVAC system is operated in the test mode for the test time period.

Abstract: A method for controlling a comfort component of a vehicle is presented. The method includes determining that the vehicle has arrived at a destination. The method also includes determining that the comfort component is activated. The method further includes deactivating the comfort component in response to determining that the comfort component is activated and the vehicle has arrived at the destination.

Abstract: An example HVAC system includes an HVAC component, and an HVAC control configured to control the HVAC component according to an HVAC system configuration parameter. The HVAC control includes a controller wireless interface and a memory. The system also includes a mobile device having a user interface and a mobile wireless interface in wireless communication with the controller wireless interface of the HVAC control. The mobile device is configured to display the HVAC system configuration parameter on the user interface, receive user input settings for the HVAC system configuration parameter, and wirelessly transmit the received user input settings to the controller wireless interface of the HVAC control. The HVAC control is configured to store the received user input settings in the memory of the HVAC control to control the HVAC component. Example methods of controlling an HVAC system are also disclosed.

Abstract: The management of internet of things (IoT) objects through a self-describing interoperability framework is described. In one example, a method for self-described object management includes communicating, by an internet of things (IoT) object, a request to register the IoT object, receiving, by the IoT object, an inquiry from an IoT management system, and communicating, by the IoT object, a self-describing declaration to the IoT management system. The self-describing declaration can include an interface parameter schema for the IoT object and an operating parameter schema for the IoT object, among other data structures. The method can also include establishing an interoperability framework between the IoT object and the IoT management system based on the interface parameter schema and the operating parameter schema. Based on self-describing declarations from various IoT objects, a number of different IoT objects can be easily recognized, integrated with, and managed by the IoT device management system.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method of controlling temperature of different zones inside premises based on determining an effective temperature set point. One or more dynamically sensed parameters are received from a plurality of sensors strategically placed within and outside of a building. One or more static parameters corresponding to building configurations and temperature thresholds from a memory unit are retrieved. A correlation engine determines the effective temperature set point for individual VAV controller associated with a particular pre-defined zone in the building by establishing a correlation between the one or more dynamically sensed parameters and static parameters corresponding to that zone. The effective temperature setpoint is transmitted to a VAV controller for associated zone.

Abstract: An HVAC system includes a blower configured to provide a flow of air into a conditioned space. A temperature sensor measures a discharge air temperature of the flow of air provided to the conditioned space. The blower provides the flow of air at a predefined flow rate. The controller determines that the measured discharge air temperature satisfies predefined stability criteria associated with a change in the discharge air temperature during a first period of time being less than a threshold value. If the stability criteria are satisfied, a temperature offset is determined between the discharge air temperature and an indoor temperature. The temperature offset is stored in a memory and is associated with the flow rate of air provided by the blower and the outdoor temperature.

Abstract: A method for determining a filter selection for an air filtration system having a current air filter includes entering filtration system information into a processor having access to pressure drop versus dust holding capacity curves for a plurality of different air filters, wherein the filtration system information includes user experience information including volume of air processed with the current air filter in the air filtration system and pressure drop with the current air filter after processing the volume of air; determining a cost factor of operating the air filtration system with the current filter for processing the volume of air; determining a theoretical quantity of dust held by the current filter at the pressure drop using a pressure drop versus dust holding capacity curve for the current air filter and the pressure drop exhibited by the current air filter after processing the volume of air; selecting a proposed air filter from the plurality of different air filters and different from the curren

Abstract: A device management system includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The device management system manages a device serving as a management target. The device is one or both of an outdoor unit and an indoor unit of an air conditioner. The storage unit stores data of the device as a device data model having a hierarchical structure in which information relating to a component of the device is associated with the device. The processing unit, in response to a processing request from an external program, reads or rewrites the data stored as the device data model in the storage unit.

Abstract: A vehicle control device that: judges a state of a vehicle; structures a plurality of VMs that control equipment installed in the vehicle; and in accordance with the state of the vehicle, switches an order of carrying out activation or stoppage of the plurality of VMs.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for determining the cause of a fault in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive operational data associated with an HVAC system, receive control logic associated with a controller of the HVAC system, determine a cause of a fault occurring in the HVAC system based, at least in part, on the operational data associated with the HVAC system and the control logic of the controller of the HVAC system, and provide the cause of the fault occurring in the HVAC system to a user.

Abstract: A switch device includes a main module, which includes at least one main electronic control circuit, connections to the electrical system of a building and/or to equipment or devices to be controlled, one or more touch sensors or contacts connected to the at least one main electronic control circuit, a main box-shaped housing element for the preceding components, and one or more systems that provide a reversible electric or electronic and mechanical connection of the main module to an accessory module.

Abstract: An arrangement of multiple environmental control systems for a multi-unit structure has a first environmental control system installed in a first unit, a second environmental control system installed in a second unit, a system monitor in communication with each of the environmental control systems and a firewall. Each environmental control system has a control unit coupled to the system monitor through the firewall that prevents unauthorized devices from accessing the respective control unit and a HVAC system device coupled to the respective control unit through the firewall. For each unit, a local user device that is located inside the unit is coupled to the control unit through a local communication interface, and an external user device that is located outside the unit communicates with the control unit through the firewall.

Abstract: A cooling system comprises a board management controller (BMC), a thermoelectric cooling (TEC) controller, and a cooling distribution unit (CDU) controller. The BMC monitors a cooling system to obtain a first power value representing a power consumed by an electronic device, performs a lookup operation in a control lookup table based on the first power value, and determines a first thermoelectric cooling (TEC) current and a first pump speed based on the lookup operation. The TEC controller is to control a TEC device attached to the electronic device to cause the first TEC current to flow within the TEC device. The CDU controller is to configure a pump speed of a fluid pump of the CDU according to the first pump speed.