US 12,222,126 B2 · Method and device for controlling indoor climate in a portion of a building

Abstract

A method for controlling indoor climate in a portion (102) of a building (100) is presented. The method comprises: identifying (S402), based on a wireless communication based positioning function, electronic devices (204a, 204b, 204c) present in the portion (102) of the building (100); for each identified electronic device, determining whether the identified electronic device is associated with a user; determining (S406) an estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in the portion (102) of the building (100) based on an amount of heat dissipation associated with the respective user to which the respective identified electronic device is associated; and controlling (S408) indoor climate in the portion (102) of the building (100) based on the estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in the portion (102) of the building (100). Also, a server (106) and a system for performing the controlling are presented.

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A method for controlling indoor climate in a portion of a building, the method comprising:

identifying, based on a wireless communication based positioning function, electronic devices present in the portion of the building;
for each identified electronic device:
determining whether the identified electronic device is associated with a user;
and
determining whether the user is logged into the electronic device;
determining an estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in the portion of the building based on an amount of heat dissipation associated with the respective user to which the respective identified logged in electronic device is associated;
and
controlling indoor climate in the portion of the building based on the estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in the portion of the building.

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A building management system comprising:

a plurality of indoor climate control assemblies, each associated with an individual portion of a building;
and
a server configured to individually control indoor climate in the individual portions of the building, the server comprising:
a control circuitry configured to execute:
an electronic device identification function configured to identify electronic devices present in each individual portion of the building that are currently logged in, based on a wireless communication based positioning function,
a heat dissipation estimation function configured to determine an estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in each individual portion of the building based on a summation of amounts of heat dissipation associated with users associated with the logged in electronic devices identified as being present in the individual portion of the building,
an indoor climate control function configured to for each individual portion of the building generate an indoor climate control signal, wherein each indoor climate control signal is based on the estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in the individual portion of the building;
and
a transceiver configured to send the indoor climate control signals to a respective one of the indoor climate control assemblies associated with the individual portion of the building.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and device for controlling indoor climate in a portion of a building

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Method and device for controlling indoor climate in a portion of a building

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