Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Temperature control voting system
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Application No.: US15966876Application Date: 2018-04-30
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Publication No.: US10761499B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: John Henneberger , Michael Scelzi
- Applicant: Portable Comfort Corporation LLC
- Applicant Address: US VA Glenn Allen
- Assignee: Portable Comfort Corporation, LLC
- Current Assignee: Portable Comfort Corporation, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Glenn Allen
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Main IPC: G05B15/02
- IPC: G05B15/02 ; F24F11/56 ; F24F11/63 ; F24F11/64 ; F24F11/65

Abstract:
A temperature voting system which receives votes indicating the temperature preferences of a plurality of occupants within a given HVAC zone, and adjusts a set-point temperature of a corresponding HVAC system accordingly. The votes may be received via a mobile device, an employee workstation, or from one or more biomedical devices. Each occupant may manually enter and submit a vote for their preferred set-point temperature, or a software application may be configured to automatically cast a vote for the corresponding occupant according to user-configurable preferences or current metabolic state. The received votes may be weighted according to a status of the voter, and aggregated to determine an appropriate set-point temperature. In some embodiments, near-field communication devices, GPS location technology, or other technology may be used to automatically detect the presence of an occupant within a HVAC zone and cast the occupant's vote for a corresponding HVAC zone.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180246481A1 Temperature Control Voting System Public/Granted day:2018-08-30
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