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6868292 Device control via digitally stored program content  
A method and system of controlling devices with digitally stored content. Devices such as home electronic appliances, lighting systems, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment,...
6868293 System and method for energy usage curtailment  
A system and method are disclosed for performing energy usage management within a network. The system may include an energy management system, such as a thermostat device, that may be associated...
6865449 Location adjusted HVAC control  
A system and method allows occupants in various locations to provide indications as to their respective levels of comfort. The indications as to comfort level are provided to a network computer....
6865428 Method and apparatus for providing distributed control of a home automation system  
A method and apparatus for providing distributed control of a home automation system is provided. Each device participating in a home automation system is equipped with control logic for providing...
6862540 System and method for filling gaps of missing data using source specified data  
A method and apparatus are provided for filling a gap of missing data using source specified data. The method includes analyzing a first set of data representative of utility consumption for a...
6862529 Managing an environment according to environmental preferences retrieved from a data storage medium  
According to the present invention, environment indicators computed for a particular environment from among multiple environments are converted into a common transmittable data format. The...
6862499 Environment-controlled transport unit  
The invention is directed to regulating the conditioned space of an environment-controlled transport unit by identifying the product being conveyed as cargo in the conditioned space of a transport...
6859669 Apparatus and method of controlling activation of home automation system  
An apparatus controlling activation of a home automation system to prevent electric home appliances from being simultaneously activated. The activation control apparatus has an activation control...
6853882 HVAC system monitoring  
A computer is operative to analyze comfort level information from one or more locations to be provided with conditioned air. The computer determines whether the comfort level information indicates...
6851621 PDA diagnosis of thermostats  
A system PDA-based on line diagnostics for automatically discovering a thermostat configuration, turning off normal controller delays, temporary overriding sensor inputs and set points, and...
6829513 Fire detection system and method for configuring  
The present invention provides an application which is used to program building systems such as fire safety systems. It is an object of the invention to provide a method for creating one or more...
6826454 Air conditioning diagnostic analyzer  
A diagnostic apparatus for analyzing a motor of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The diagnostic apparatus includes a portable control unit which is detachably coupled to...
6778945 Rooftop package unit diagnostician  
A diagnostic system for an HVAC system includes a number of sensors used to measure the operation of the HVAC system. Sensor readings are measured by timing the delay between when a strobe signal...
6760760 Control system communication server for transmitting files via multiple communication paths  
A communication system includes a communication server having a file storage cache, at least one control system coupled to the communication server via a communication path, and at least one client...
6745085 Fault-tolerant multi-node stage sequencer and method for energy systems  
A method for controlling energy systems such as multiple boiler systems to meet an energy need includes a controller configured as a sequencer with the remaining controllers act as individual...
6741915 Usage monitoring HVAC control system  
Systems and methods are described for a usage monitoring HVAC control system. A method, includes: providing a usage monitoring heating ventilation and air conditioning control system, the usage...
6741914 Notch filtering as used in a disc drive servo  
A method for optimizing the attenuation of mechanical resonances of actuator driving energy of a disc drive is presented. The method generally involves determining a resonant frequency range of the...
6732540 Air conditioning plant and control method thereof  
Provided are an air conditioning plant control method by which an air conditioning plant can be operated in a most desirable state, and an air conditioning plant so controlled. An air conditioning...
6726113 Temperature control strategy utilizing neural network processing of occupancy and activity level sensing  
A temperature control system utilizes detected occupancy and activity levels to automatically condition a response of an HVAC system to a difference between a setpoint temperature and an actual...
6711471 Zone of greatest demand controller, apparatus, and method  
A controller, multiple zone control apparatus, and method for controlling temperature independently in each zone for use in a structure having an interior divided into a plurality of zones. The...
6711470 Method, system and apparatus for monitoring and adjusting the quality of indoor air  
A system, method and apparatus is provided for monitoring and adjusting the quality of indoor air. A sensor array senses an air sample from the indoor air and analyzes the air sample to obtain...
6708083 Low-power home heating or cooling system  
The invention provides a low electric power-consuming heating or cooling system comprising a DC powered microprocessor-based control system and method and a DC powered electrically actuated zone...
6694222 Fuzzy logic control of a variable displacement compressor in a vehicle air conditioning system  
A non-linear control method for an air conditioning system utilizes fuzzy logic to regulate the activation of a displacement control valve for a variable displacement compressor for maintaining a...
6647318 Pulse modulation adaptive control method for activating an electrical device  
A facility management system includes a device which produces a change of an environmental characteristic in a building. A method for operating the device involves sensing the environmental...
6647317 Air conditioner management system  
An open network environment and a multi vendor system for an air conditioner is realized so that management and services can be made highly efficient. A management system for an air conditioner has...
6640142 System and method for controlling workspace environment  
An occupant of a cubicle or office can activate transparent partitions to partially or completely enclose a cubicle and/or office to minimize noise, optimize privacy, lighting, air flow and...
6631619 Air-conditioning apparatus  
An air-conditioning apparatus, being able to download operation control information through a network, wherein a remote controller of the air-conditioner is structured, so that it can indicate the...
6628997 Method for programming a thermostat  
A method for programming a thermostat, comprising the steps of providing a thermostat programmed to convert programming codes into time-temperature schedules; determining a desired time-temperature...
6604023 Managing an environment utilizing a portable data processing system  
Environmental indicators computed for a particular environment are converted into a transmittable data format each of the environmental indicators is computed by electronic environmental...
6594554 Apparatus and method for intelligent control of the fan speed of air-cooled condensers  
A refrigeration system ( 10 ) has a compressor ( 12 ) that forces a refrigerant to flow in a loop between an evaporator ( 17 ) and a condenser ( 16 ). The present method controls the speed of a...
6549826 VAV airflow control for preventing processor overflow and underflow  
A method for controlling a variable airflow apparatus to prevent processor overflow and underflow, with the variable airflow apparatus including an airflow sensor for providing an airflow sensor...
6543932 Enthalpy tunnel  
An improved and accurate enthalpy tunnel is presented, designed to condition and control airflow patterns within the main tunnel and air sampling subsystem so as to present a homogenous volume...
6522954 Smart control strategy for regulating a temperature controller  
A smart control strategy/system for regulating a temperature controller for supplying or exhausting heat to/from a room, object or the like. The actual temperature of a room, object or the like...
6505099 Radiant energy control system  
In a radiant energy heating system having one or more types of radiant energy heating sub-systems, a control system comprising a solid state electronic control panel pre-programmed to control two...
6466834 Method and apparatus for conversion of ventilation systems represented in computer-readable form  
A method for converting a representation of a ventilation duct system in a computer readable form from a first duct type to a second duct type, such as circular and rectangular ducts. The method...
6463397 Environmental monitoring and control system for a ventilated cage and rack system  
An environmental monitoring and controlling system for a ventilated cage and rack system that monitors and measures air flow in the rack at either the rack or cage level. At the rack level, two...
6449533 Thermostat and method for controlling an HVAC system with remote temperature sensor  
A thermostat adapted to be connected to a climate control system for operating the climate control system. The thermostat comprises a main unit having a microprocessor, a keypad connected to the...
6424871 Rotating machine integrated with controller, and inverter  
The present invention provides a rotary machine integrated with a control device, which is effective to reduce the cost of manufacture of a variable-speed pump or the like, and allows control...
6408215 Isothermal port for microwave network analyzer and method  
The present invention provides an isothermal port and method for a microwave network analyzer and more particularly an isothermal port and method to control the temperature of microwave standards...
6408228 Hybrid finite state machine environmental system controller  
The present invention provides a sequencing control strategy for environmental system controllers that takes better advantage of the capabilities of the system elements to enhance performance and...
6408225 Device and method for balancing the weight on a robot arm  
The invention relates to a device for balancing the weight carried by a robot arm of a robot. Said device comprises a fluid spring, rotably a pneumatic spring, and a control device for controlling...
6389331 Technique for monitoring performance of a facility management system  
A facilities management system is subdivided into a plurality of subsystems. The performance of the system is monitored by producing data which denotes a plurality of operational parameters for...
6385510 HVAC remote monitoring system  
An electronic HVAC monitoring computer continuously monitors the general condition and efficiency of an HVAC system and notifies a central station computer via modem link or other signal...
6366832 Computer integrated personal environment system  
The environment of a work space is regulated by a controller connected to a computer network. A personal computer within the work space also is connected to the computer network and displays a...
6353775 Multiple instance single value identifiers environmental control communication method and system  
A method of communicating between a plurality of devices in a controller area network is disclosed. The method includes authorizing a first device to transmit messages with a first identifier over...
6278909 Method and apparatus for controlling the amount of power supplied to a conditioning device  
The method and apparatus are for controlling an amount of power supplied to a conditioning device acting on an actual value of a predetermined physical parameter within an area in relation to a...
6272399 Method and system for maintaining a desired air flow through a fume hood  
The present invention pertains to a system for controlling a fume hood with a face. The system comprises a device for controlling air flow through the fume hood based on air flow face velocity. The...
6240326 Language independent building automation architecture for worldwide system deployment  
A computer-implemented building automation operating system for supporting applications that interact with building automation devices in different locations. A computer-human interface is provided...
6223101 District heat supply plant controller  
A district heat supply plant controller for efficiently and flexibly obtaining operation plans of a district heat supply plant includes a plant operation planning device responsive to a predicted...
6209794 Method for designing a vehicle thermal management system  
A method for designing a thermal management system on a vehicle includes the steps of determining a parametric solid model of a vehicle and determining an exterior thermal output of the vehicle...
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