Enhanced premises monitoring and/or control

摘要

Enhancements to premises monitor or control device (e.g., thermostats, etc) are detailed herein. For example, enhanced relating to simplification of scheduling, are described as well as other enhancements relating to reducing device costs or consumption costs, providing richer features or more robust feature sets, and/or delivering associated product or services with increased simplicity, convenience, or ease.

主权项

1. A premises monitor and control device that facilitates a change to a state of a premises, comprising:
a processor that executes or facilitates execution of computer executable components stored in a first memory, the computer executable components comprising:
a presentation component that presents:
a selection display comprising user-selectable schedule types indicative of types of schedule arrangements over a defined time period representing a week that includes sub-periods representing a day; anda configuration display comprising a threshold setting for the state of the premises during a sub-period of the sub-periods; anda data component that:
determines a number n in response to input to the selection display representing selection of a schedule type from among the user-selectable schedule types, wherein n is between two and a count of the sub-periods in the week; anddetermines threshold data based on input data input to the threshold setting of the configuration display for the sub-period; anda population component that populates n data structures included in a second memory of a premises state control device with the threshold data, wherein a data structure from the data structures relates to a single sub-period of the week.