Human-centric smart building systems and methods
AssigneeC Squared IP Holdings LLC
InventorsKevin D. Howard, Matthew J. Smith, James K. Holt
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Abstract
The system and methods of the present invention use sensor hardware, software, and connectivity, both between sensors and with occupants of the commercial, private, or public building, for building service utilization and capacity optimization and for personal and mass safety. One or more clusters of different sensor types are deployed in an indoor setting and can be used to nurture, protect, and assist occupants of that indoor setting. The human-centric concepts herein are also shown to be applicable to both medical triage and transportation settings.
Claims22
A human-centric smart building system, comprising:
- at least one sensor cluster array including a plurality of building-placed sensors configured to detect, parallel process, and transmit sensor-detected event data;
- one or more mobile devices;
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- one or more computing servers in operative communication with the one or more mobile devices and the at least one sensor cluster array, wherein the sensor-detected event data is parallel processed using combined computational resources of the plurality of building-placed sensors of the at least one sensor cluster array for transmission of cluster processed sensor-detected event data to the one or more computing servers, and wherein the one or more computing servers receive the cluster processed sensor-detected event data via multiple data streams from the at least one sensor cluster array to further process occupant information and identify an occupant event, with the occupant information including at least occupant location data and occupant status data.
A human-centric smart building monitoring method, comprising:
- providing at least one sensor cluster array including a plurality of building-placed sensors configured to detect, parallel process, and transmit sensor-detected event data;
- monitoring the plurality of building-placed sensors of the at least one sensor cluster array for the sensor-detected event data;
- parallel processing the sensor-detected event data using combined computational resources of the plurality of building-placed sensors of the at least one sensor cluster array for transmission of cluster processed sensor-detected event data;
- receiving the cluster processed sensor-detected event data via multiple data streams from the at least one sensor cluster array to process occupant information at one or more computing servers;
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- identifying an occupant event based on the processing of the occupant information, wherein the occupant information includes at least occupant location data and occupant status data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.