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AssigneeJohnson Controls Technology Company
InventorsRobert D. Turney, Liming Yang, Yunrui Wang
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A predictive heating system for a building zone includes building equipment, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, and a predictive heating controller. The building equipment is operable to affect an environmental condition of the building zone in a heating mode of operation and a cooling mode of operation. The temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperature of the building zone. The humidity sensor is configured to measure humidify of the building zone. The predictive heating controller is configured to predict an occupancy time of the building zone over a future time period, determine a dehumidification time period before the occupancy time of the building zone, determine a heating time period before the occupancy time of the building zone, operate the building equipment to dehumidify the building zone over the dehumidification time period, and operate the building equipment to heat the building zone over the heating time period.
A predictive heating system for a building zone, the system comprising:
The controller of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to operate the building equipment to dehumidify the building zone and operate the building equipment to heat the building zone at least partially before the occupancy time of the building zone.
The controller of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to:
The controller of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to receive occupancy schedules from a scheduling service to estimate when the building zone will be occupied.
The controller of claim 7, wherein the building equipment is single-coil building equipment configured to operate in the cooling mode of operation or the heating mode of operation.
The controller of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to receive a user input from a user interface, wherein the user input is a command to activate the predictive heating controller to operate the building equipment to dehumidify the building zone and operate the building equipment to heat the building zone.
A method for dehumidifying and heating a building zone, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.