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Gesture control of building automation system components during installation and/or maintenance

  • US 10,691,214 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2015
  • Issued: 06/23/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for a contractor to configure a heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) component during initial installation and/or maintenance of a forced air HVAC system using a wearable device and a mobile device that is operatively coupled to the wearable device, the method comprising:

  • storing in the mobile device two or more different HVAC component configuration commands for use in configuring the HVAC component by the contractor during initial installation and/or maintenance of the forced air HVAC system, one of the two or more different HVAC component configuration commands including an open damper command for commanding a damper of the HVAC component of the forced air HVAC system to move in an open direction and another of the two or more different HVAC component configuration commands including a close damper command for commanding the damper to move in a close direction;

    storing in the mobile device a defined gesture for each of the two or more HVAC component configuration commands;

    receiving at the mobile device a gesture of the contractor sensed by the wearable device;

    determining if the received gesture is one of the defined gestures stored in the mobile device that corresponds to one of the one or more HVAC component configuration commands stored in the mobile device;

    if the received gesture does not correspond to any of the defined gestures stored in the mobile device that correspond to one of the one or more HVAC component configuration commands stored in the mobile device, sending a message to the wearable device indicating that the received gesture did not correspond to any of the defined gestures stored in the mobile device that correspond to one of the one or more HVAC component configuration commands stored in the mobile device;

    if the received gesture corresponds to one of the defined gestures stored in the mobile device that corresponds to one of the one or more HVAC component configuration commands stored in the mobile device;

    sending a confirmation to the wearable device that the received gesture was recognized by the mobile device as corresponding to one of the defined gestures stored in the mobile device that corresponds to one of the one or more HVAC component configuration commands stored in the mobile device;

    transmitting the HVAC component configuration command that corresponds to the received gesture to effect a change in the operation of the HVAC component of the forced air HVAC system to aid the contractor in configuring the HVAC component of the forced air HVAC system.

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