HVAC UNIT WITH AUDIO MONITORING, A METHOD OF AUDIO MONITORING EVENTS OF AN HVAC UNIT AND A CONTROLLER CONFIGURED TO PERFORM THE METHOD OF AUDIO MONITORING
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1. A controller for a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) unit, comprising:
- an interface configured to receive audio data from a listening system of said HVAC unit; and
a mechanical behavior evaluator coupled to said interface and configured to verify occurrence of an event of said HVAC unit based on said audio data.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit and a HVAC controller. Additionally, a computer program product is disclosed. In one embodiment, the HVAC controller includes: (1) an interface configured to receive audio data from a listening system of the HVAC unit and (2) a mechanical behavior evaluator coupled to the interface and configured to verify occurrence of an event of the HVAC unit based on the audio data.
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1. A controller for a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) unit, comprising:
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an interface configured to receive audio data from a listening system of said HVAC unit; and a mechanical behavior evaluator coupled to said interface and configured to verify occurrence of an event of said HVAC unit based on said audio data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method of audio monitoring of events of a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) unit, said method comprising:
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receiving audio data from a listening system of said HVAC unit, said audio data associated with an event of said HVAC unit; comparing said audio data to at least one audio recording that corresponds to said event; and verifying occurrence of said event based on said comparing. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) unit, comprising:
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a heating or cooling system configured to provide conditioned air, said heating or cooling system having a component; a listening system configured to detect sound corresponding to an event associated with said component and generate audio data of said sound; and a controller coupled to said operating system and said listening system, said controller comprising; an interface configured to receive said audio data from said listening system of said HVAC unit; and a mechanical behavior evaluator coupled to said interface and having; a sound reservoir configured to store audio recordings of various events associated with said operating system; and a sound examiner configured to verify occurrence of said event based on said audio data. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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