ADVANCED HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE FOR COLLABORATIVE BUILDING CONTROL
First Claim
1. A system for collaborative energy management and control in a building, comprising:
- an energy management controller for a building;
one or more occupant human-machine interfaces (HMIs) that supports two-way communication between building occupants and a facility manager, and between building occupants and the energy management controller; and
a facility manager HMI that supports two-way communication between the facility manager and the building occupants, and between the facility manager and the energy management controller,wherein said occupant HMI allows building occupants to provide comfort preferences to the facility manager and the energy management controller, and said facility manager HMI allows the facility manager to configure an energy policy for the building as a set of rules and to view occupants'"'"' aggregated comfort preferences, and the energy management controller determines an optimum comfort parameter range that resolves conflicting occupant comfort preferences and occupant comfort preferences that conflict with the facility manager'"'"'s energy policy for the building.
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Abstract
A system for collaborative energy management and control in a building, including an energy management controller, one or more occupant HMIs that supports two-way communication between building occupants and a facility manager, and between building occupants and the energy management controller, and a facility manager HMI that supports two-way communication between the facility manager and the building occupants, and between the facility manager and the energy management controller, in which the occupant HMI allows building occupants to provide temperature preferences to the facility manager and the energy management controller, and the facility manager HMI allows the facility manager to configure an energy policy for the building as a set of rules and to view occupants'"'"' aggregated temperature preferences, and the energy management controller determines an optimum temperature range that resolves conflicting occupant temperature preferences and occupant temperature preferences that conflict with the facility manager'"'"'s energy policy for the building.
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19 Claims
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1. A system for collaborative energy management and control in a building, comprising:
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an energy management controller for a building; one or more occupant human-machine interfaces (HMIs) that supports two-way communication between building occupants and a facility manager, and between building occupants and the energy management controller; and a facility manager HMI that supports two-way communication between the facility manager and the building occupants, and between the facility manager and the energy management controller, wherein said occupant HMI allows building occupants to provide comfort preferences to the facility manager and the energy management controller, and said facility manager HMI allows the facility manager to configure an energy policy for the building as a set of rules and to view occupants'"'"' aggregated comfort preferences, and the energy management controller determines an optimum comfort parameter range that resolves conflicting occupant comfort preferences and occupant comfort preferences that conflict with the facility manager'"'"'s energy policy for the building. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for collaborative energy management and control in a building, comprising:
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one or more occupant human-machine interfaces (HMIs) that supports two-way communication between building occupants and a facility manager; a facility manager HMI that supports two-way communication between the facility manager and the building occupants, wherein said occupant HMI allows building occupants to provide comfort preferences to the facility manager, and said facility manager HMI allows the facility manager to configure an energy policy for the building as a set of rules and to view occupants'"'"' aggregated comfort preferences; and a social network supported by the occupant HMIs and the facility HMI, said social network adapted to facilitating communication between the occupants and the facility manager, and allowing occupants to provide feedback to the facility manager regarding building conditions, and allowing facility managers to disseminate information to all the occupants. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. A non-transitory program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executed by the computer to implement a system for collaborative energy management and control in a building, the system comprising:
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an energy management controller for a building; one or more occupant human-machine interfaces (HMIs) that supports two-way communication between building occupants and a facility manager, and between building occupants and the energy management controller; and a facility manager HMI that supports two-way communication between the facility manager and the building occupants, and between the facility manager and the energy management controller, wherein said occupant HMI allows building occupants to provide comfort preferences to the facility manager and the energy management controller, and said facility manager HMI allows the facility manager to configure an energy policy for the building as a set of rules and to view occupants'"'"' aggregated comfort preferences, and the energy management controller determines an optimum comfort parameter range that resolves conflicting occupant comfort preferences and occupant comfort preferences that conflict with the facility manager'"'"'s energy policy for the building. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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