Social Learning SoftThermostat for Commercial Buildings

摘要

A building has climate control equipment which controls a temperature at different locations. Different locations may be in different control zones controlled by different control devices. An occupant of a location submits a desired location temperature through a user interface on a computing device to a networked server. Setting of a desired temperature is constrained by energy saving policies and by conditions of surrounding locations. An arbitrator device determines based on constraints a new temperature setting. The new temperature setting is accompanied by an energy saving feedback. The occupants confirms the new setting. A climate control device is instructed to apply a device setting to achieve the new temperature. A climate profile of the occupant is learned from previous temperature settings by the occupant.

主权项

1. A method for determining in a first building with a first location and a second location a first temperature setting of a climate control device enabled to affect the first and the second location, comprising:
a processor enabled to receive from a first user interface on a first computing device an instruction for a preferred temperature for the first location and the processor enabled to receive from a second user interface on a second computing device an instruction for a preferred temperature for the second location; and the processor arbitrating the received preferred temperature settings based on a constraint to set the climate control device to determine a first arbitrated temperature setting as the first temperature setting, wherein the arbitrating is based on an optimization criterion.