HVAC system with location determination capability
AssigneeTrane International Inc.
InventorStuart Allen Means
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Abstract
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a system controller having a location determination module configured to cause determination and/or reporting of the location of the HVAC system in response to a first run and/or initialization of the HVAC system. The location determination module may determine and/or report location information via global positioning system (GPS) capability, a service provider (SP), customized data provider (CDP), Internet sites, LAN, WAN, 3G, 4G, and/or any other type of network infrastructure to effect reporting of the location of the HVAC system.
Claims20
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system, comprising:
- a system controller comprising:
- a location determination module configured to automatically determine the location of the HVAC system in response to initialization of power to the system controller.
A method of operating an HVAC system, comprising:
- providing an HVAC system comprising a system controller comprising a location determination module;
- initializing power to the system controller;
- determining location information of the HVAC system automatically in response to initializing power to the system controller;
- and
- communicating location information to a remote system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.