×

Switch terminal system with spatial relationship information

  • US 10,359,741 B2
  • Filed: 03/17/2018
  • Issued: 07/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. An intelligent switch terminal system for controlling a first switch terminal of a building occupied by one or more building occupants, comprising:

  • a plurality of one or more switch terminals that creates a building network system, the intelligent switch terminal system including a plurality of switch terminal parameters for a switch terminal relative to the building, comprising;

    a first computer system embedded as part of a first switch terminal of the building at a first location of the building;

    a first plurality of sensors embedded as part of the first switch terminal and coupled to the first computer system, at least a portion of the first plurality of sensors provide signal data to the first computer system and in response the first computer system produces a command or data output as a result of computation occurring locally within the first switch terminal or another switch terminal located in the building and connected to the building network system the command or data output includes a building occupants behaviors based on a machine intelligence developed by computational processes executed on the first computer system embedded to the first switch terminal or another switch terminal located in the building and connected to the building network system;

    in response to a received signal from at least one sensor of the first plurality of sensors the first computer system determines if an action needs to be taken, and in response makes physical changes to a control system of the building to change or operate one or more of illumination levels, appliances and electronic devices in the building to control operation of the appliances or electronic devices in the building based on results from at least a portion of the first plurality of sensors and the first computer system for at least a portion of the building, without any other computer other than the one embedded in the first switch terminal or another switch terminal located in the building and connected to the building network system;

    a second switch terminal that includes a second plurality of sensors and a second computer system that are both embedded as part of the second switch terminal, the first switch terminal and the second switch terminal interact and coordinate their operations to provide that the second switch terminal supplements building occupant behavior information obtained from the first switch terminal to allow the first and second switch terminals to execute additional capabilities to provide outputs including learned data that is based on a machine intelligence from previous data collected about patterns of a building occupant;

    an interface at the first switch terminal configured to receive a command input from a building occupant and serves as a point of interaction between the first computer system and the building occupant, the interface selected from at least one of;

    touch, graphics, sound, position, movement, voice, communication, wireless, and radio;

    wherein the intelligent switch terminal system is configured to provide information of how at least a portion of the first plurality of sensors relate to the second plurality of sensors, the intelligent switch terminal system configured to provide a prediction of activity by a building occupant and a creation of spatial relations of devices and links between at least of a portion of the switch terminals in one or more spaces or zones of the building, and the links are configured to detect anomalies in at least one of;

    sensor outputs of ambient or artificial light, movement by people, sound utterances by people, electrical properties, and the detection of presence of people.

View all claims
  • 3 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×