Comfort control system incorporating weather forecast data and a method for operating such a system
AssigneeHoneywell Inc.
InventorsUlf Stefan Berglund, Bjorn Henry Lundberg
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Abstract
In a comfort controls system for multiple buildings (whether residential, commercial or industrial), a weather forecast unit sends weather forecast data over the Internet to a building management provider which handles building management services for a number of clients, each having a number of buildings and properties. At the provider's reception station, data on the external-building characteristics of all the buildings are compiled with the received data and then fed to the appropriate building management controls system.
Claims20
A comfort controls system for at least one building, the system comprising:
- means to receive weather forecast data,
- means to combine said data with a group of external-building characteristics relating to at least one specific building to derive instructions signals for comfort controls operation of said at least one specific building;
- means to direct said instructing signals to the building management control means for the appropriate specific building(s).
A comfort controls system for a plurality of buildings, the system comprising:
- means to receive weather forecast data,
- means to combine said data with a group of external-building characteristics for each of a plurality of specific buildings to derive instructions signals for comfort controls operation of the respective specific buildings;
- means to direct said instructing signals to the building management control means for each of said appropriate specific buildings.
A method of operating a comfort controls system for at least one building, the method comprising:
- receiving weather forecast data,
- combining said data with a group of external-building characteristics relating to at least one specific building to derive instructions signals for comfort controls operation of said at least one specific building;
- directing said instructing signals to the building management control means for the appropriate specific building(s).
A computer program product stored on a computer usable medium, comprising:
- computer readable program means for causing a computer to receive weather forecast data;
- computer readable program means for causing the computer to combine said data into a group of external-building characteristics relating to at least one specific building to derive instructions signals for comfort controls operation of said at least one specific building;
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- computer readable program means for causing the computer to direct said instructions signals to the building management control means for the appropriate specific building(s).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.