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US 2019/0155967 A1Published application
System for obtaining and classifying energy characteristics
AssigneeAdemco Inc.
InventorsGirija Parthasarathy, Wendy Foslien, Pedro Davalos
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Abstract
An approach and system for receiving data from a thermostat in a building, treating the data as representative of a thermal response model or system, and determining a relationship between a rate of building internal temperature change and change in outdoor temperature to provide an indication of how well a building is insulated versus a thermal mass of the building.
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A system for classifying characteristics of buildings comprising:
- a computer;
- and
- one or more thermostats situated in one or more buildings, respectively, and have a connection to the computer;
- and
- wherein:
- each of the one or more thermostats provides time series data to the computer;
- the time series data comprise indoor temperature, outdoor temperature, and temperature setpoints relative to time;
- a thermal response model for each of the one or more buildings is derived from the time series data;
- a connection can have one or more intermediary connections;
- and
- a connection can be wire, wireless, or wire and wireless.
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A method for classifying energy characteristics of buildings comprising:
- obtaining data from one or more thermostats in one or more buildings;
- creating a thermal response model of a building from the data;
- extracting parameters from the thermal response model for deriving thermal capacity and energy efficiency of the building;
- and
- classifying the one or more buildings as groups with respect to the parameters and weather conditions external to the one or more buildings.
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A mechanism for determining energy characteristics comprising:
- one or more thermostats situated inside one or more buildings, respectively;
- and
- a computer connected to the one or more thermostats;
- and
- wherein
- the one or more thermostats provide time-series data to the computer;
- the time-series data comprise one or more items selected from a group consisting of indoor temperatures, indoor humidity, temperature setpoints, outdoor temperatures, outdoor humidity, heating mode, and cooling mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.