User-relocatable self-learning environmental control device capable of adapting previous learnings to current location in controlled environment

A thermostat device flexibly adapted for relocation within an enclosure, the thermostat comprising:

• a communication module configured to send control signals to a boiler control device for selectively controlling the activation of a boiler-based heating system;
• a user interface;
• one or more environmental sensors;
• and
• a processing system configured to:
• learn a heating schedule at a first location according to an automated schedule learning algorithm that processes inputs including user inputs and occupancy sensing inputs and derives schedule-affecting parameters therefrom that are processed to compute the heating schedule;
• determine whether the thermostat has been moved to a new location;
• if it is determined that the thermostat has been moved to the new location, then determine one or more parameters associated with the new location and establish a new heating schedule for the new location, and wherein zero or more of said previously measured schedule-affecting parameters are re-used based on the one or more parameters associated with the new location.

A method of detecting and adapting to location changes within an enclosure by a thermostat device, the method comprising:

• learning, by the thermostat device, a heating schedule at a first location according to an automated schedule learning algorithm that processes inputs including user inputs and occupancy sensing inputs and derives schedule-affecting parameters therefrom that are processed to compute the heating schedule;
• sending, by the thermostat device, control signals to a boiler control device for selectively controlling the activation of a boiler-based heating system based on the heating schedule;
• determining, by the thermostat device, whether the thermostat has been moved to a new location;
• if it is determined that the thermostat has been moved to the new location, then determining one or more parameters associated with the new location and establish a new heating schedule for the new location, and wherein zero or more of said previously measured schedule-affecting parameters are re-used based on the one or more parameters associated with the new location;
• and
• sending, by the thermostat device, control signals to the boiler control device for selectively controlling the activation of a boiler-based heating system based on the new heating schedule.