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US 10,768,582 B2Granted
Monitoring sites containing switchable optical devices and controllers
AssigneeView, Inc.
InventorsDhairya Shrivastava, Stephen Clark Brown, Vijay Mani
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Abstract
A site monitoring system may analyze information from sites to determine when a device, a sensor, a controller, or other structure associated with optically switchable devices has a problem. The system may, if appropriate, act on the problem. In certain embodiments, the system learns customer/user preferences and adapts its control logic to meet the customer's goals.
Claims32
A system for site monitoring, comprising:
- (a) a processing center communicatively coupled with a plurality of remote sites, wherein each site comprises:
- (I) a plurality of windows having at least one switchable optical device,
- (II) a plurality of window controllers that control a tint level of the at least one switchable optical device,
- (III) a plurality of intermediate controllers coupled with one or more of the plurality of window controllers, and
- (IV) a master controller coupled with the plurality of intermediate controllers, the master controller being coupled with an external network, wherein control of the plurality of windows is distributed across the plurality of window controllers, the plurality of intermediate controllers, the master controller, and the external network;
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- (b) processor readable media that, when read by one or more processors of the processing center, the processor readable media causes the processing center to:
- (i) analyze data received via the external network from one or more of the plurality of windows, the plurality of window controllers, the plurality of intermediate controllers and the master controller in the plurality of remote sites, to generate an analysis,
- (ii) learn a modification and/or a mode of operation from the analysis;
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- (iii) apply, via the external network, the modification and/or mode of operation to at least one site of the plurality of remote sites such that control of the plurality of windows is based at least in part on the modification and/or the mode of operation learned.
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A method for site monitoring, comprising:
- implementing the method on a site monitoring system that comprises:
- a processing center communicatively coupled with a plurality of remote sites that includes at least one remote site comprising:
- (I) a plurality of windows comprising at least one switchable optical device,
- (II) a plurality of window controllers that control a tint level of the at least one switchable optical device,
- (III) a plurality of intermediate controllers coupled with one or more of the plurality of window controllers, and
- (IV) a master controller coupled with the plurality of intermediate controllers, the master controller being coupled with an external network,
- wherein control of the plurality of windows is distributed across the plurality of window controllers, the plurality of intermediate controllers, the master controller, and the external network,
- the method comprising:
- (a) using the processing center to analyze data received via the external network from one or more of the plurality of windows, the plurality of window controllers, the plurality of intermediate controllers and the master controller in the plurality of remote sites to generate an analysis;
- (b) learning a modification and/or a mode of operation by using the analysis;
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- (c) applying, via the external network, the modification and/or mode of operation to at least one site of the plurality of remote sites such that the control of the plurality of windows is based at least in part on the modification and/or on the mode of operation learned.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.