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Smart air duct cover

Inactive Publication Date: 2016-06-23
ZAN COMPUTE INC
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The present invention is a new system for managing centralized facilities. One advantage is that it works with existing systems, but it also improves control resolution from the section level to the room level. This is better than existing systems that only work at the zone level.

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Even though such an HVAC system is easy to install and maintain, the system is considerably inefficient because many portions of a section of a building may be unoccupied at any given time.
However, because of the zone-level control resolution, these unoccupied areas are heated or cooled.

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[0014]The inventor of the present invention observes that the living, dining and family rooms in a residence are unlikely to be occupied between certain hours at night, while bedrooms are likely occupied during those hours. However, in existing prior art systems, temperature is often set for the whole residence, so that even unoccupied areas are heated or cooled. Worse still, the thermostat in many residences is provided in a controller which is located in an area that is likely to be unoccupied during those times (e.g., the living room), and as the unoccupied areas usually are significantly different in floor area than the occupied areas (e.g., the bedrooms), the occupied rooms are over-heated or over-cooled. Because the whole residence is treated as a single zone, and because the sensors are often inappropriately placed, such an existing prior art system is not only inefficient, but also incapable of maintaining a comfortable temperature across the house, as to create discomfort i...

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An air duct cover provides a sensor platform that contains a rich set of sensors. In addition, the air duct cover may include an energy harvesting capability, thereby increasing efficiency in an HVAC system and sustaining the sensors on the sensor platform. The air duct cover may also integrate a smoke detection device. As power is provided by the air duct cover, maintenance requirements for the smoke detection device are substantially eliminated. The air duct cover may also serve as an air quality control device, with dust, smoke, and carbon monoxide (CO) sensors that allow it to detect the amount of dust flowing through and to serve as a smoke detector.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to an integrated, self-sustaining, sensor-based energy optimization system. More particularly, the present invention relates to an energy optimization system based on detecting environmental and usage conditions at specific locations of a building.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Heating, ventilation, and air condition (HVAC) systems in commercial buildings typically have zone-level resolutions. A zone is often a relatively large section of a building containing many rooms. For example, control of air conditioning may be provided at a section level—i.e., the air conditioning system provides the user the ability to monitor and control air flows and temperature to a section of a building at a time, and not for a smaller area, such as a single room. In fact, in most residential units with centralized air conditioning, the entire unit is maintained as a single zone. Even though such...

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IPC IPC(8): F24F11/00F24F11/04
CPCF24F11/0012F24F11/0015F24F11/0034F24F2011/0068F24F11/0076F24F11/04F24F2011/0056F24F11/006F24F11/30F24F2110/10F24F2110/20F24F2110/50F24F2110/64F24F2120/10F24F11/56F24F11/70Y02B30/70F24F11/76F24F11/46F24F11/63
Inventor SHAHABDEEN, JUNAITH AHEMED
Owner ZAN COMPUTE INC
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