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Title: Advanced human-machine interface for collaborative building control

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.

Inventors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Siemens Corporation, Iselin, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1209345
Patent Number(s):
9,104,183
Application Number:
13/651,510
Assignee:
Siemens Corporation (Iselin, NJ)
DOE Contract Number:  
EE0003843
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Oct 15
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION

Citation Formats

Zheng, Xianjun S., Song, Zhen, Chen, Yanzi, Zhang, Shaopeng, and Lu, Yan. Advanced human-machine interface for collaborative building control. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Zheng, Xianjun S., Song, Zhen, Chen, Yanzi, Zhang, Shaopeng, & Lu, Yan. Advanced human-machine interface for collaborative building control. United States.
Zheng, Xianjun S., Song, Zhen, Chen, Yanzi, Zhang, Shaopeng, and Lu, Yan. 2015. "Advanced human-machine interface for collaborative building control". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1209345.
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abstractNote = {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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