Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Occupant controlled energy management system and method for managing energy consumption in a multi-unit building
- Patent Title (中): 乘员控制能源管理体系和多单位建筑能耗管理方法
-
Application No.: US12274431Application Date: 2008-11-20
-
Publication No.: US07643908B2Publication Date: 2010-01-05
- Inventor: Richard N. Quirino , Gregory F. Schuerer , Philipp A. Roosli , Duane W. Buckingham
- Applicant: Richard N. Quirino , Gregory F. Schuerer , Philipp A. Roosli , Duane W. Buckingham
- Applicant Address: US CT Niantic
- Assignee: Inncom International Inc.
- Current Assignee: Inncom International Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Niantic
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: G05D5/00
- IPC: G05D5/00 ; G05D9/00 ; G05D17/00
Abstract:
A system is provided for use in a multi-unit building by which an occupant of a unit of the multi-unit building controls an appliance associated with the unit and includes an actuator which is accessible to the occupant, a processing unit to control the appliance, operative in the first mode, based on occupant instructions, to change the mode of the appliance based on an actuation of the actuator and to control the appliance, operative in the second mode, according to a preselected schedule, and a networking unit to inform, via communications, a monitor of the multi-unit building as to when the appliance operates in the second mode.
Public/Granted literature
Information query
