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Social learning softthermostat for commercial buildings

  • US 9,933,796 B2
  • Filed: 09/12/2013
  • Issued: 04/03/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determining in a first building with a first location and a second location a first temperature setting of a climate control device enabled to affect the first and the second location, comprising:

  • a processor enabled to receive from a first user interface via a first soft thermostat embodied in a first instance of a software application allocated to a first user on a first computing device an instruction for a preferred temperature for the first location and the processor enabled to receive from a second user interface via a second soft thermostat embodied in a second instance of the software application allocated to a second user on a second computing device an instruction for a preferred temperature for the second location; and

    the processor arbitrating the received preferred temperature settings based on a constraint to set the climate control device to determine a first arbitrated temperature setting as the first temperature setting, wherein the arbitrating is based on an optimization criterion that minimizes a difference between the preferred temperature of the first location and the first arbitrated temperature setting and the preferred temperature of the second location and the first arbitrated temperature setting.

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