Multiple interacting systems at a site
AssigneeView, Inc.
InventorsDhairya Shrivastava, Stephen Clark Brown, Ronald F. Cadet
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Abstract
Disclosed are platforms for communicating among one or more otherwise independent systems involved in controlling functions of buildings or other sites having switchable optical devices deployed therein. Such independent systems include a window control system and one or more other independent systems such as systems that control residential home products (e.g., thermostats, smoke alarms, etc.), HVAC systems, security systems, lighting control systems, and the like. Together the systems control and/or monitor multiple features and/or products, including switchable windows and other infrastructure of a site, which may be a commercial, residential, or public site.
Claims24
A window control system, comprising at least one controller configured (i) to control an optical state of one or more optically switchable windows in a building and (ii) to interact directly, by way of an application programming interface (API), with at least one other system of the building selected from at least one member of the group consisting of a lighting system, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, a security system, and a home appliance control system and not to interact with a building management system of the building.
A method, comprising:
- controlling an optical state of one or more optically switchable windows in a building with a window control system;
- and
- with the window control system, interacting directly, by way of an application programming interface (API), with at least one other system of the building selected from at least one member of the group consisting of a lighting system, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, a security system, and a home appliance control system, the group excluding a building management system of the building.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.