Smart building system for integrating and automating property management and resident services in multi-dwelling unit buildings
AssigneeUrban Sky
InventorsSilas Shadid, Dann J. Farquhar
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Abstract
A method for converting a legacy building into a smart building. The method including calculating a distance between a first connection point and a second connection point; creating a cable having a first length based on the distance between the first connection point and the second connection point; installing a demarcation point; installing a plurality of systems; connecting the demarcation point and a system using the cable, to create a smart building system; connecting the smart building system to a portal; and testing the connection of the smart building system to the portal.
Claims15
A system for managing the use of an appliance, the system comprising:
- an appliance control device including:
- an appliance activator for activating an appliance cycle, and
- a sensor for detecting a status of a status light of an appliance, the status light indicating an operating status of the appliance;
- a controller including an electronic processor and a memory, the controller configured to:
- exchange network communications with a server through a local area network (LAN);
- and
- transmit an activation signal to the appliance control device based upon at least some of the exchanged network communications;
- and
- the server, the server being communicationally coupled to a portal having a portal user interface displaying a status of the appliance, the status of the appliance having been communicated to the server by the controller;
- and
- an appliance attendant communicatively coupled to the appliance control device,
- the appliance attendant including:
- a display presenting an appliance attendant user interface;
- and
- an appliance attendant computer, the appliance attendant computer exchanging further network communications with the server through the LAN, the appliance attendant being communicatively coupled to the appliance control device through the server.
A method of managing the use of an appliance, comprising:
- providing an appliance control device including an appliance activator for activating an appliance cycle and a sensor for detecting a status of a status light of an appliance, the status light indicating an operating status of the appliance;
- providing a controller configured to:
- exchange network communications with a server through a local area network (LAN), the server exchanging other network communications with multiple other controllers, associated with multiple other appliances, through the LAN;
- providing an interactive online portal connected to the controller through the server, the interactive online portal configured to control the appliance and present a status of the appliance, the status of the appliance having been communicated to the server by the controller;
- receiving a request for activation of the appliance;
- transmitting an activation signal to the appliance control device;
- activating the appliance;
- and
- providing an appliance attendant including a display presenting a user interface;
- and an appliance attendant computer, the appliance attendant computer exchanging further network communications with the server through the LAN, the appliance attendant being communicatively coupled to the appliance control device through the server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.