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US 12,231,260 B2Granted
Sensing and communications unit for optically switchable window systems
AssigneeView, Inc.
InventorsNitesh Trikha, Stephen Clark Brown, Nitin Khanna, Robert Tad Rozbicki, Dhairya Shrivastava, Brandon Dillan Tinianov
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Abstract
A high-speed data communications network in or on a building includes a plurality of trunk line segments serially coupled to each other by a plurality of passive circuits configured to deliver signals to, and to receive signals from, one or more devices on, in, or outside the building, wherein the signals comprise data having a greater than 1 Gpbs transmission rate.
Claims18
A system, comprising:
- a plurality of sensor systems, each sensor system comprising:
- a housing,
- at least one sensor disposed in the housing,
- at least one processor disposed in the housing, wherein the at least one processor of each sensor system is configured to perform ambient computing operations, and
- a network interface,
- wherein the plurality of sensor systems are configured to operate as a mesh network using the network interface and the at least one processor of each sensor system.
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A system for high-bandwidth communications, the system comprising:
- a plurality of control panels, each control panel of the plurality of control panels configured to control at least one downstream device, and each control panel comprising:
- at least one controller, and
- a plurality of data ports, wherein each of the data ports of the plurality of data ports is configured to support transmission of data of a speed of at least 0.5 Gigabits per second;
- and
- a high-bandwidth data backbone operatively coupling the plurality of control panels.
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A system, comprising:
- a control panel;
- a plurality of window controllers operatively coupled to the control panel;
- a plurality of optically switchable devices, each optically switchable device operatively coupled to a window controller of the plurality of window controllers;
- a trunk line that that couples the control panel to each window controller of the plurality of window controllers, wherein the trunk line transmits data and power to each window controller;
- and
- a plurality of sensor systems, each sensor system comprising a plurality of sensors housed within a housing of the sensor system, and each sensor system disposed on a structural element of a building in which the plurality of optically switchable devices are installed, or on a framing component of an optically switchable device of the plurality of optically switchable devices, wherein the trunk line is configured to transmit sensor data from each of the plurality of sensor systems to the control panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.