Adaptive control systems for buildings with dual band slot antenna

• US 10,474,112 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2017
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Edison Labs, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Edison Labs, Inc.
• Inventors: Billings, Colin
• Primary Examiner(s): Karim, Ziaul
• Application Number:
  US15/681,351
• Publication Number:
  US 20180120778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 815 Days
• Field of Search: 700 32
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/024 in which a parameter or coefficient is automatically adjusted to optimise the performance
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/048 using a predictor
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25011 Domotique, I-O bus, home automation, building automation
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link

Abstract

A system is provided for controlling a first switch terminal of a building occupied by one or more building occupants. The system includes a plurality of switch terminal parameters relative to the building. A first computer system is coupled to the first switch terminal of the building at a first location of the building. The first computer system runs on at least one platform. The first computer system includes a dual-band slot antenna. A first plurality of sensors is coupled to the first switch terminal and the first computer system. At least a portion of the sensors provide signal data to the first computer system. The first computer system produces a command or data output that relates to at least one of: a command output for a local control system, a command output for a different system, a data output for a different system, a command output for a non-local device or a data output that is a non-local device, each of an output including learned data from that is based on machine intelligence from previous data collected about patterns of a building occupant.

Claims

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

a first computer system included in the first switch terminal of the building at a first location of the building, the first computer system running on at least one platform and including a dual-band slot antenna;

a second switch terminal with a second computer system and a second set of sensors integrated with and included in the second switch terminal;

using signal data to the first computer system from a first plurality of sensors included in the first switch terminal;

producing an output from at least one of the first and second computer systems and the first or second plurality of sensors selected from at least one of;

a command output for a different system, a data output for a different system, and a command output for a non-local device or a data output that is a non-local device, each of an output including signal data from previous data collected from the first and second switch terminals;

the first switch terminal and the second switch terminal interacting and coordinating their operations to provide that the second switch terminal supplements 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 from previous data collected by the first and second switch terminals; and

in response to received signals from at least one sensor of the first or second plurality of sensors the first or second computer system adjusting an electrical load of one or more appliances or electronic devices in the building,

wherein the first computer system includes an electrical circuit coupled to a dual-band antenna; and

wherein the antenna is configured to provide a network interface to at least one of the first and second switch terminals.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first computer system provides a network interface to the switch terminal.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

a metal frame.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein electrical contact is made at defined points between the metal frame and the electrical circuit.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the dual-band slot antenna is void of all metal except at a feed point.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the feed point is coupled to a common terminal of the diplexer circuit.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the diplexer circuit is an RF diplexer circuit.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the diplexer circuit includes a low pass filter and a high pass filter.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the diplexer circuit is configured to attenuate signals from two radio circuits.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the two radio circuits each include a receiver.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the diplexer circuit is configured to condition a signal by splitting the signal into low and high frequency bands at energy levels for the receivers of the two radio circuits.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the low pass filter and the high pass filter are configured to protect one radio circuit receiver from a transmission power of the other radio circuit receiver.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the low pass filter and the high pass filter are configured to and reduce out-of-band noise received by the dual-band pass antenna from reaching a receiver of each of the two radio circuits.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the receivers of the radio circuits can be utilized for any frequency.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the receivers of the radio circuits can be used at frequencies in the range of 20 MHz-300 MHz.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the receivers of the radio circuits are used at frequencies of 915 MHz and 2.4 GHz respectively.