199 results about "Environmental conditioning" patented technology

The current application is directed to an intelligent-thermostat-controlled environmental-conditioning system in which computational tasks and subcomponents with associated intelligent-thermostat functionalities are distributed to one or more of concealed and visible portions of one or more intelligent thermostats and, in certain implementations, to one or more intermediate boxes. The intelligent thermostats are interconnected to intermediate boxes by wired and / or wireless interfaces and intelligent thermostats intercommunicate with one another by wireless communications. Wireless communications include communications through a local router and an ISP, 3G and 4G wireless communications through a mobile service provider. Components of the intelligent-thermostat-controlled thermostat-controlled environmental-conditioning system may also be connected by wireless communications to remote computing facilities.

The current application is related to environmental-conditioning systems controlled by intelligent controllers and, in particular, to an intelligent-thermostat-controlled HVAC system that detects and ameliorates control coupling between intelligent thermostats. Control coupling can lead to inefficient HVAC operation. When control coupling is detected, a settings-adjustment directive is sent to at least one intelligent thermostat to adjust one or more intelligent-thermostat settings, including an HVAC-cycle-initiation delay parameter, swing parameter, and a parameter that indicates whether or not an intelligent thermostat should first obtain confirmation or permission before initiating an HVAC cycle.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for environmental system controls are provided. A number of human subjects present within a space is determined, which may include counting the human subjects and / or determining a thermal mass of the human subjects. An impact upon an environmental factor by the present human subjects upon the space is determined. Environmental conditioning equipment is controlled based on the determination.

An apparatus for controlling an environmental conditioning system serving an indoor space and having at least one environmental conditioning device coupled with a communication bus structure includes: (a) at least one user interface coupled with the communication bus structure for effecting access to the system by a user; and (b) at least one controller coupled with the communication bus structure for effecting operational control of the system. The at least one controller communicates on the communication bus structure with the at least one environmental conditioning device, the at least one user interface and any other devices coupled with the communication bus structure. The at least one user interface communicates on the communication bus structure with the at least one environmental conditioning device, the at least one controller and any other devices coupled with the communication bus structure.

The current application is directed to an intelligent-thermostat-controlled environmental-conditioning system in which computational tasks and subcomponents with associated intelligent-thermostat functionalities are distributed to one or more of concealed and visible portions of one or more intelligent thermostats and, in certain implementations, to one or more intermediate boxes. The intelligent thermostats are interconnected to intermediate boxes by wired and / or wireless interfaces and intelligent thermostats intercommunicate with one another by wireless communications. Wireless communications include communications through a local router and an ISP, 3G and 4G wireless communications through a mobile service provider. Components of the intelligent-thermostat-controlled thermostat-controlled environmental-conditioning system may also be connected by wireless communications to remote computing facilities.

The current application is related to environmental-conditioning systems controlled by intelligent controllers and, in particular, to an intelligent-thermostat-controlled HVAC system that detects and ameliorates control coupling between intelligent thermostats. Control coupling can lead to inefficient HVAC operation. When control coupling is detected, a settings-adjustment directive is sent to at least one intelligent thermostat to adjust one or more intelligent-thermostat settings, including an HVAC-cycle-initiation delay parameter, swing parameter, and a parameter that indicates whether or not an intelligent thermostat should first obtain confirmation or permission before initiating an HVAC cycle.

A maintenance system is provided for an environmental conditioning element of an environmental control system of a vehicle. The maintenance system includes a data acquisition module configured to determine an ambient temperature, an altitude of the vehicle, and a measured ECS compressor temperature; a fouling module coupled to receive the ambient temperature, the altitude, and the measured ECS compressor temperature from the data acquisition module and configured to generate a fouling condition of the environmental conditioning element based on at least the ambient temperature, the altitude, and the measured ECS compressor temperature; and a reporting module coupled to receive the fouling condition from the fouling module and configured to generate a report for a user that includes the fouling condition.

A method for removing ice from an outdoor housing for an environmental conditioning unit that includes the housing surrounding a coil and a fan for moving air past the coil includes the steps of: (a) operating the fan at a first speed in a first direction to move air in a first flow past the coil while the conditioning unit is in a heating mode; (b) disengaging the fan when the conditioning unit is in a defrost mode; (c) operating the fan at a second speed in a second direction to move air in a second flow past the coil when an operational parameter attains a first value; and (d) operating the fan in the first direction at the first speed to move air in the first flow when the operational parameter attains a second value.

The invention discloses a smart community monitoring system, including an access control system for opening a door when the first human body feature information of a person trying to open a corresponding door is verified to be successful, an elevator control unit for unlocking the button for a target floor in an elevator for a first preset time when the second human body feature information of a passenger is verified to be successful, a video monitoring unit for acquiring real-time video images in a community, a security detection unit for detecting whether someone fall down according to the video images and alarming when a person falls down over a second preset time, a person recognition unit for detecting a facial image in the video images and comparing the facial image with a prestored target person image and alarming when detecting a facial image consistent with the target person image, a rubbish detection unit for alarming when detecting the rubbish quantity at a rubbish spot exceeds standards, and a smart home unit for performing indoor safety protection and environmental conditioning. According to the invention, real-time smart monitoring and safeguard of the community are achieved.

A method of conditioning an environment includes generating, by a group feedback analysis system, a first comfort limit based on a first plurality of data points corresponding to user feedback of a group of users in an environment conditioned by an environmental conditioning system to identify the first comfort limit at a first extreme; generating, by the group feedback analysis system, a second comfort limit based on a second plurality of data points corresponding to user feedback of the group of users in the environment conditioned by the environmental conditioning system to identify the second comfort limit at a second extreme, the second extreme being opposite the first extreme; identifying, by the group feedback analysis system, a comfort region defined by the first comfort limit and the second comfort limit; and controlling the environmental conditioning system to maintain at least one environmental criterion within the comfort region.

A conditioning unit can allow the blower to be easily translated from a first operable position in the conditioning unit to a second operable position external to the conditioning unit. The translation of the blower does not require the disconnection of the blower and, accordingly, does not require that the blower be disconnected and reconnected to the control system. Such capability can facilitate the installation of the conditioning unit into a variety of applications and allows the purchaser to customize the blower location based on the desired performance. The ability to customize the installation of the conditioning unit without requiring disconnection and reconnection of the blower can reduce the cost and expense associated with the installation into differing applications.

An air conditioning system for a vehicle includes a climate control system for selectively heating and cooling ambient air in a passenger compartment of the vehicle. One or more fans cooperate with the climate control system and are configured to draw air from the passenger compartment to expel air to the exterior of the vehicle. One or more devices are provided in proximity to the passenger compartment to detect a variety of conditions of the air in the passenger compartment. The one or more devices selectively signal a controller to activate and deactivate the one or more fans prior to an occupant entering the vehicle. The controller may activate the one or more fans to draw air from the passenger compartment based on detection of predetermined conditions in response to input from the one or more devices.

The invention relates to a system and device for controlling air-conditioning equipment, in particular to a method for controlling air-conditioning equipment in a chamber or the assembly of chambers consisting in pre-calculating at least one parameter selected between the temperature, chemical composition of the chamber or the assembly of chambers, the energy consumption of air-conditioning equipment and the energy production cost for a given time range by simulation carried out for an arbitrarily large number of explicit calculation formulae for a given time range and in selecting between said formulae the formulae called optimal explicit calculation formulae which meet predefined temperature and chemical composition restrictions and correspond to the minimisation of a cost function related to said energy production cost.

A method, system or computer usable program product for providing alerts of inefficiency of an environmental conditioning system including, responsive to a cycle initiation by the environmental conditioning system, measuring a difference between an intake temperature and an outlet temperature after a predetermined period of time, and responsive to the difference being below a minimum level, generating an alert.

The invention provides an environment adjusting method and an environment adjusting system of a healthy sleep scene. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a scene setting command and setting a control scene of a target environment to be a healthy sleep scene; then, determining an environment adjusting device for adjusting each environmental influence factor according to a plurality of environmental influence factors of the healthy sleep scene; and setting an operation curve of the environment adjusting device based on historical sleep data of a target user, thereby controlling the environment adjusting device to operate according to the set operation curve. Based on the method provided by the invention, the operation curve of the environment adjusting device capable of adjusting the plurality of influence factors in the healthy sleep scene can be set automatically, and the healthy sleep scene can be created for the user without manual adjustment of the user. Moreover, based on the method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the operation curve of the environment adjusting device is set according to the historical sleep data of the target user, thus, personalized requirements of the target user can be satisfied effectively, and user experience can be improved further.

An environmental conditioning system has a compressor for compressor air in an air flow path. A turbine drives the compressor and is coupled to the compressor. An evaporator is in communication with the compressor. The evaporator is configured to cool air from the compressor.

The invention relates to the technical field of environmental conditioning and discloses an indoor environmental conditioning method and an indoor environmental conditioning device. The method includes: acquiring environmental parameters of an environment of a user; recording environmental parameters meeting preset conditions; determining target parameters corresponding to click operations from the recorded environmental parameters according to click operations of the user; sending the target parameters to the environmental conditioning device to enable the environmental conditioning device to condition an indoor environment of the environmental conditioning device according to the target parameters. Therefore, sharing of the environmental parameters, meeting the preset conditions, of the environment of the user to the environmental conditioning device is realized, adaptability to physical quality and favors is realized, and requirements of the user can be met.

An aircraft environmental conditioning system is disclosed having an air cycle machine for conditioning an airflow comprising hot compressed air by reducing its temperature and pressure. The air cycle machine is disposed in a housing in an unpressurized area of the aircraft, and produces conditioned pressurized air for delivery to a pressurized area of the aircraft. The system also includes a vibration sensor disposed within the housing, and a controller in communication with the vibration sensor that is configured to respond to vibration detected by the vibration sensor.

A gas matter leakage simulation experiment set comprises a gas generating unit. The gas matter leakage simulation experiment set is technically characterized in that the input end of the gas generating unit is connected with an air inlet and a dangerous matter adding unit, the output end of the gas generating unit is connected with the input end of a simulation experiment space unit, the input end of the simulation experiment space unit is further connected with a humidity and temperature simulation environment adjusting unit, and detecting probes are evenly distributed in the simulation experiment space unit; the output end of the simulation experiment space unit is connected with the input end of a data analysis unit through a data receiving unit; the output end of the simulation experiment space unit is connected with a gas recycling unit and the input end of a liquid recycling unit through a spraying unit. According to the device, the spatial scale convert coefficient of gas risk matter diffusion rules is found through the diffusion motion on risk matter under the experiment bin condition and the difference between the gas risk matter diffusion rules under different conditions, the accuracy of indoor experiments is improved, and a reliable basis is provided for determining the optimum safe distance in actual emergency rescue.

The invention discloses a tunnel kiln environment conditioning method and a device of automatically adjusting the temperature in a kiln. The tunnel kiln environment conditioning method includes the following steps: S1, environmental information acquisition equipment is arranged in a tunnel kiln, wherein the environmental information acquisition equipment is used for acquiring environmental parameters of the environment to be conditioned in the tunnel kiln and sending the environmental parameters to a controller; S2, the controller generates an environment conditioning command according to the environmental parameters acquired by the environmental information acquisition equipment, and sends the environment conditioning command to an environment conditioning execution mechanism; and S3, the environment conditioning execution mechanism conditions the environment in the tunnel kiln according to the environment conditioning command sent from the controller. The tunnel kiln environment conditioning method can control the angle of a temperature adjustment burner, the combustion gas injection rate, the angular rate of the temperature adjustment burner, the kiln tail blast rate, and the like, of the tunnel kiln, and can perform sintering research on various refractory materials, thus increasing diversity of research.

The invention belongs to the technical field of building ventilation, and discloses a building model indoor natural ventilation testing device and a testing method. The testing device comprises a temperature detection module, a humidity detection module, a carbon dioxide detection module, a central control module, a ventilation volume calculation module, a ventilation regulation module, a data storage module, and a display module. The invention also discloses a testing method. Through the ventilation volume calculation module, the total indoor fresh air volume is calculated, and the indoor ventilation volume can be known more intuitively by a user; through the ventilation regulation module, excellent indoor ventilation effects are improved; and the indoor area is finely divided, each smalldivided area is subjected to information acquisition and environmental regulation, the pertinence of environmental regulation in each small area is improved, and a good indoor environment is thus ensured.

The invention discloses an environmental conditioning intelligent system based on remote control in a chicken breeding house. The environmental conditioning intelligent system comprises a microprocessor and a central processor arranged inside the chicken breeding house, wherein an input end of the microprocessor is connected with an environment detection unit; an output end of the microprocessor is connected with input ends of an audible and visual alarm, an LED (Light Emitting Diode) display screen, an air conditioner, a glass fiber reinforced plastic negative-pressure fan, a high-pressure micro mist humidifier, a dehumidifier and an LED chicken breeding lamp respectively; and the microprocessor is in bidirectional signal connections with the central processor and a wireless mobile monitoring terminal respectively through a network communication platform. The environmental conditioning intelligent system relates to the technical field of chicken breeding. Through adoption of the environmental conditioning intelligent system based on remote control in the chicken breeding house, the requirement on breeding experience is lowered greatly; intelligence of a breeding environment is realized; remote control performance is provided; use requirements are met greatly; great defect which still exist are overcome; and normal growth and breeding of livestock are ensured.

A method, system or computer usable program product for providing alerts of inefficiency of an environmental conditioning system including, responsive to a cycle initiation by the environmental conditioning system, measuring a difference between an intake temperature and an outlet temperature after a predetermined period of time, and responsive to the difference being below a minimum level, generating an alert.

An environmental conditioning system has a compressor for compressor air in an air flow path. A turbine drives the compressor and is coupled to the compressor. An evaporator is in communication with the compressor. The evaporator is configured to cool air from the compressor.

A vehicle management system includes an onboard vehicle system and a ground system. The onboard vehicle system includes a compressor exit temperature sensor configured to determine an ECS compressor exit temperature; a data acquisition unit coupled to receive the compressor exit temperature, an altitude of the first vehicle, and an ambient temperature and configured to generate a data report; and a communications system coupled to receive and transmit the data report. The ground system includes a ground data server coupled to receive the data report and determine a fouling condition of an environmental conditioning element of the ECS based on at least the compressor exit temperature, the altitude, and the ambient temperature; and a mobile application module coupled to receive the fouling condition from the ground data server and configured to provide an interface for displaying the fouling condition to a user on a mobile device.

The invention relates to an environmental conditioning device and an environmental conditioning method. Specifically, the environmental conditioning device comprises an inner shell and an outer shell, wherein the outer shell is arranged outside the inner shell in a covering mode; the outer shell can move relative to the inner shell along the longitudinal axis of the inner shell, so that switching between at least two wind paths of the environmental conditioning device is achieved. In addition, the invention provides the environmental conditioning method used for the environmental conditioning device. According to the environmental conditioning device and the environmental conditioning method, through the special wind path switching form, switching between the wind paths becomes extremely convenient, the switching process is simple, the number of operation components is small, and movement is reliable.

An aircraft environmental conditioning system is disclosed that includes an air cycle machine for conditioning an airflow comprising hot compressed air by reducing its temperature and pressure. The air cycle machine is disposed in a housing in an unpressurized area of the aircraft, and produces conditioned pressurized air in a conduit for delivery to a pressurized area of the aircraft. The system also includes a smoke sensor disposed within the conduit or within the housing external to the conduit, and a controller in communication with the smoke sensor that is configured to respond to smoke detected by the smoke sensor

The invention discloses an electric appliance control method and control device. The method includes the following steps: detecting human traffic entering a predetermined place; determining an environmental objective in the predetermined place according to the human traffic; and adjusting the working mode and / or operating parameters of one or more electric appliances related with environmental conditioning in the predetermined place according to the environmental objective, so as to create a comfortable environment for personnel in the predetermined place. The method can adjust the electric appliances according to the human traffic, can create a comfortable environment for personnel in the place, improve control accuracy, save energy, and improve user experience.