PREDICTIVE BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH DISCOMFORT THRESHOLD ADJUSTMENT

Patent №

US 11,675,322

Granted

2023-06-13

Filed 2021

Owner

JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17338351

A method for controlling HVAC equipment for a building includes generating, based on historical building data, a discomfort tolerance defining an acceptable amount of occupant discomfort, determining a first value of an environmental condition at which the occupant discomfort is predicted to exceed the discomfort tolerance in a first direction, determining a second value of the environmental condition at which the occupant discomfort is predicted to exceed the discomfort tolerance in a second direction opposite the first direction, and controlling the HVAC equipment to maintain the environmental condition between the first value and the second value.

PlanningF24F 11/46G05B 13/048F24F 11/58F24F 11/63F24F 11/64F24F 11/65G05B 13/027G05B 15/02+7 more

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.01
Speech0.01
Machine learning0.01
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

assignment · 564330671

Assignors

DU, FANG, WENZEL, MICHAEL J., ELBSAT, MOHAMMAD N.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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