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US 2017/0284720 A1Published application
System and method for remotely determining local operating environment of a refrigerant condenser unit
AssigneePalo Alto Research Center Incorporated
InventorsVictor Liu, Sylvia Joan Smullin
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Abstract
A system is configured to remotely determine characteristics of a local operating environment of an outdoor condenser unit. The system includes a detector configured to sample power consumption of the condenser unit to obtain a sampled power consumption time series. An analyzer receives the sampled time series of the detector and determines characteristics of a local operating environment of the condenser unit from the power consumption time series. The analyzer generates an output that includes information about the local operating environment.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a detector configured to sample power consumption of a refrigerant condenser unit to obtain a sampled power consumption time series;
- and
- an analyzer configured to determine characteristics of a local operating environment of the condenser unit from the power consumption time series, the analyzer further configured to generate an output that includes information about the local operating environment.
A method, comprising:
- sampling power consumption of a refrigerant condenser unit;
- determining characteristics of a local operating environment of the condenser unit from the power consumption;
- and
- generating an output that includes information about the characteristics of the local operating environment.
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