Technologies for optimally individualized building automation
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsTao Cui, Joseph A. Carr, Alexander Brissette, David Coats
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Abstract
A method for a building automation system to control a comfort level in a building includes tracking a building occupant's activity data using a wearable activity tracker. A smartphone is coupled to the wearable activity tracker. Activity data is collected from the wearable activity tracker using a smartphone app operating on the building occupant's smartphone, and a comfort value is determined using the smartphone app based on the activity data. A report of the comfort value is transmitted to a building automation system (BAS) app from the smartphone, and the output of a building system is controlled based on the comfort value.
Claims20
A method for a building automation system (BAS) to control a comfort level in a building, comprising:
- tracking activity data relating to a building occupant using a wearable activity tracker;
- coupling a smartphone associated with the building occupant to the wearable activity tracker;
- collecting the activity data from the wearable activity tracker using a smartphone app operating on the smartphone;
- determining a comfort value using the smartphone app based on the activity data;
- transmitting a report of the comfort value to a building automation system app from the smartphone;
- and
- controlling an output of a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system based on the comfort value.
A system for controlling comfort in a building having a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system, comprising:
- a plurality of smartphone apps constructed to operate on a corresponding plurality of smartphones, each smartphone being constructed to couple to a corresponding wearable activity tracker worn by a building occupant of a plurality of building occupants, wherein each smartphone app is constructed to receive activity data from the corresponding wearable activity tracker and determine a comfort value for the building occupant based on the activity data, yielding a plurality of comfort values;
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- a building automation system having a BAS app constructed to receive the comfort values from the plurality of smartphone apps via the corresponding smartphones and constructed to control the HVAC system based on the comfort values to improve the aggregate comfort of the building occupants.
A method for controlling a comfort level in a building, comprising:
- subdividing the building into a plurality of zones;
- obtaining data related to the comfort levels of at least some occupants in each zone from wearable activity trackers worn by the occupants;
- transmitting the data to smartphones coupled to the wearable activity trackers for at least some occupants in each zone;
- determining comfort values for the at least some occupants in each zone;
- transmitting the comfort values to a building automation system;
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- controlling a building system output for each zone based on the comfort values associated with each zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.