134 results about "Operating energy" patented technology

A system including an electrical meter and at least one server. The electrical meter: obtains a power monitoring signal by measuring an electrical property of a power line to a building; processes the power monitoring signal in a first mode of operation to determine first information about a first device in the building; transmits the first information to the at least one server; receives from the at least one server, an instruction to change to a second mode of operation; processes the power monitoring signal in the second mode of operation to determine second information about a second device in the building; and transmits the second information to the at least one server. The at least one server: receives the first information from the electrical meter, transmits the instruction to the electrical meter to change to the second mode of operation, and receives the second information.

The invention belongs to the technical field of intelligent household appliances, and particularly relates to a wind speed control method, device and equipment of an intelligent household appliance and a computer storage medium. According to the method, the expiration temperature, the cold outlet temperature and the environment temperature of the intelligent household electrical appliance are obtained, and a first temperature relation and a second temperature relation are generated based on the expiration temperature, the cold outlet temperature and the environment temperature; acquiring a preset energy-saving condition of the intelligent household electrical appliance, and judging whether the first temperature relation and the second temperature relation meet the preset energy-saving condition or not; if the first temperature relation and the second temperature relation meet the preset energy-saving condition, the intelligent household electrical appliance is controlled to enter a wind speed adjusting mode, and the wind speed of the intelligent household electrical appliance is flexibly adjusted. According to the method, the control logic of wind speed regulation of the intelligent household electrical appliance is optimized, the noise generated when the intelligent household electrical appliance is used is reduced, intelligent regulation of the rotating speed of the fan is realized under the condition that the operation of the intelligent household electrical appliance is not influenced, the operation energy consumption of the intelligent household electrical appliance is reduced, and the use experience of a user is improved.

A system for commissioning a model, comprising one or more processing circuits configured to identify a first plurality of data points in the building, automatically tag at least a portion of the first plurality of data points with one or more first tags using context data extracted from and / or associated with the data points, the one or more entities comprising one or more of building equipment, building spaces, people, or events, identify at least one of the first plurality of data points for manual review and generate one or more suggested tags for the at least one data point, receive feedback from the manual review, and receive a second plurality of data points in the building and automatically tag at least a portion of the second plurality of data points with one or more second tags using the feedback from the manual review.

Systems, devices and methods for optimising and managing distributed energy storage and flexibility resources on a localised and group aggregation basis, particularly around the determination, analysis and predictive learning of local data patterns, scoring availability for flexibility and risk profiles, to inform the optimisation of energy supply and behind the meter storage resources and local clusters of co-located or close resources within a community, low voltage network, feeder, neighbourhood or building. Said optimisation to involve scheduled, reactive and active management of data sources and local clusters of resources, for a range of goals such as price, energy supply, renewable leverage, asset value, constraint or risk management. Or where said optimisation achieves a local objective such as providing resources to off-set, aid local balancing or constraint management of larger local supplies and loads, or to aid active management of local energy demands and renewable supplies, storage resources, electric heat resources, electric vehicle charging resources or clusters of electric vehicle chargers, flexible loads in buildings.

Examples techniques to manage building operations are described. A first range of setpoints, a second range of setpoints, and a third range of setpoints of an asset installed in a building is determined. Current setpoints for operating parameters of the asset which are determined by a building operations optimizer are monitored. If the current setpoints determined by building operations optimizer fall within the second range of setpoints or the third range of setpoints, the current setpoints are adjusted by controlling a local controller to bring the current setpoint back into the first range of setpoints that correspond to values of the operating parameters of the asset in accordance with predefined optimal operating conditions for the asset, thereby ensuring safety of the asset and comfort to occupants of the building.

Information about power events on the electrical grid may be determined by processing reports of power anomalies from power monitors installed at various points on the electrical grid, such as in buildings of end users of electrical power. A power monitor may process sensor measurements of the power line to determine that a power anomaly has occurred. The power monitor may transmit information about the power anomaly, such as the time and location, to a processing location. The processing location may select power anomaly reports having a similar time and location to determine information about a power event that caused the power anomalies. The information about the power event may include the type, time, and location of the power event. A notification may be sent about the power event to facilitate repairs and reduce risks, such as the risk of electrical fires.

The disclosed technology provides for generating simulation training models that can be used to prepare people (i.e., building occupants, first responders) to safely and calmly respond to emergencies, such as fires in high-rise buildings. Using the training models, people can better cope with decision-making during emergencies. The disclosed technology also uses signaling devices, wearables, and other devices and sensors distributed throughout a building to provide egress or stay-in-place guidance to people located in the building during an emergency. Audio and / or visual information can be outputted to people to guide them along a safe pathway that is selected to provide safe egress for the person, including anticipating and protecting the person from changing emergency conditions within the building and in response to how the person responded to the simulation training models.

The disclosure relates to the field of ventilation systems, specifically to ventilation systems in residential and non-residential (commercial) buildings. Specifically, the invention relates to decentralized supply and extract units with waste heat recovery and can be used for transmitting heat and power from an extraction air flow, i.e. from a flow of air extracted from a building, to a supply air flow, i.e. a flow of fresh air being drawn into a building, for the purpose of replacing spent air from the building.

This invention discloses a device for driving a closing component (9) in a building using a solar power source (1). It includes at least one low-voltage AC motor (3) mechanically connected to the closing component, a DC energy storage element (2), and a solar power source supplying DC voltage. The energy storage element has a rated voltage lower than the effective voltage and greater than the DC voltage supplied by the solar power source. A DC-DC charger (4) converts the output electrical energy from the solar power source into electrical energy having a charging voltage of the energy storage element. A DC-AC converter (5) converts the electrical energy from the DC output voltage of the energy storage element into electrical energy having an AC voltage capable of powering the motor.

The invention relates to a heating / cooling device for offices, in particular for offices having multiple workstations, wherein the heating / cooling device has at least one first heating / cooling element (1) per room, which can be connected to a central heating / cooling circuit in the building and is provided with a respective associated control unit (2) with a thermostat. A first heating / cooling element (1) which can be associated with a workstation is provided for each workstation in the room, wherein the first heating / cooling element (1) comprises two heating / cooling registers (3, 4) which can be connected to the central heating / cooling circuit and which are arranged parallel to one another, wherein a heating / cooling register (3) is arranged horizontally in the floor region below a desktop (5) and the second heating / cooling register (4) is arranged at a parallel distance from same directly below the desktop (5) or within the desktop (5).

This application relates to an indirect evaporative cooling system and control method, comprising a heat exchanger including a first air inlet, a first air outlet, a second air inlet, a second air outlet, and a heat exchange core, the heat exchange core including a first airflow channel and a second airflow channel; an internal circulation fan coil assembly, located on one side of the first air outlet, including a first surface cooler and a first fan; and an external circulation fan coil assembly, located on one side of the second air outlet; a cold source storage tank connected to the input end of the first surface cooler, the cold source storage tank containing insulation material, used to store external cold sources at night or during off-peak hours and to release the stored cold sources to the first surface cooler for supplemental cooling during daytime or peak hours via connecting pipelines; and a spray assembly, located on one side of the second air inlet, used to cool the airflow entering the heat exchanger through the second air inlet. This application has the effect of reducing the operating energy consumption of the indirect evaporative cooling system.

The invention relates to a system (100) for detecting water activity of a local water installation (250) in a building. The system comprises: a water inlet pipe (240) for supplying water to a local water installation (250) in a building, the water inlet pipe 5 (240) comprising an outer surface area being exposed to ambient conditions within a space (260) of the building; one or more temperature sensors (235) mounted on or engaging with said outer surface area of the water inlet pipe (240) being configured to detect a temperature (T1) of said outer surface area of the water inlet pipe (240); one or more temperature sensors (236) measuring the ambient temperature (T2) 10 within the space (260) of the building; an accelerometer (241) arranged in a position on the water inlet pipe (240) for detecting vibration signals (VS); and a computing unit arranged and configured to calculate a change in the temperature difference between T1 and T2, whereby the amount of running water of the local water installation (250) is estimated during a predefined time period, and arranged and 15 configured to apply the vibration signals of the accelerometer (241) for validating if the change in the temperature difference between T1 and T2 is caused by running water in the predefined time period.

The present application belongs to the field of network type energy storage cabinet, especially relates to a kind of intelligent power consumption optimization method and system for network type energy storage, the method is by real-time acquisition operating state data, external dispatching instruction and system operation mode, constructs dynamic hypergraph model to integrally represent the coupling relationship between power scheduling task, heat load demand and heat management energy consumption;Further, with the minimum system total operating energy consumption as the goal, based on the model collaborative optimization solution, generate the joint operation strategy of power scheduling and heat management control in future period;Finally, execute the strategy on digital twin energy storage cabinet, realize the closed-loop joint control of power conversion and heat management subsystem, thereby solve the energy efficiency bottleneck problem caused by the split optimization of electric heating system, improve overall operation economy and safety.

The present invention relates to an effective gravity control device which is installed so as to have a falling space to be a vertical space in a building, and which implements a zero gravity, microgravity, low gravity, or pseudogravity state of an internal module mounted in a moving external module. The effective gravity control device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a dual module which comprises an external module and an internal module; an actuator which is installed at the upper side of a falling space in a space for controlling and monitoring a change in gravity applied to the dual module, and which moves the external module so that, according to a control signal, the external module has at least one physical quantity; and a sliding frame which is installed in a space at the lower side of the falling space and provides a path for taking the dual module into / out from the falling space.

An acquisition unit (21) acquires a simulation period indicating an object period for which simulations of amounts of energy consumption in a building are to be done, a parallel number indicating the number of the simulations that are to be performed in parallel, and a holiday condition indicating nonoperating days of an air conditioning system installed in the building. A planning unit (22) splits the simulation period into the parallel number to generate split periods. The planning unit (22) splits the simulation period into the parallel number so that starting days of the split periods other than an initial split period may be the nonoperating days indicated by the holiday condition. A simulation unit (23) does the simulations of the amounts of energy consumption in the building in parallel, for the split periods.

This application relates to the field of HVAC and building energy conservation technology, and discloses a method and system for testing air conditioning equipment. One specific implementation of the method includes: receiving target conditions for testing the air conditioning equipment; performing semantic path reasoning using a pre-established association model to determine a target load mode and target test dataset matching the target conditions, and generating a test script; executing the test script to drive the air conditioning equipment to operate under the target load mode, and collecting operating data of the air conditioning equipment during operation; and using the operating data to determine and output evaluation indicators for the air conditioning equipment, wherein the evaluation indicators reflect the air conditioning performance and operating energy efficiency. This implementation can generate dynamic test conditions that conform to the characteristics of real building use without relying on traditional static experimental conditions, improving test accuracy, efficiently completing the evaluation of air conditioning equipment performance and operating energy efficiency, and providing a reliable basis for the optimized control of air conditioning equipment.

Building (1), in particular a residential building, with a plurality of floors (8), with a shaft (14) passing through the plurality of floors (8) and with a storage device (22) arranged in the shaft (14) and extending over the plurality of floors (8), wherein the storage device (22) has at least one access station (36) extending through the shaft (14) on different floors (8) as well as a plurality of storage compartments (24) movable back and forth between the access stations (36), and wherein a storage compartment (24) moved to an access station (36) is accessible to a person (38) located in the building (1) at this one access station (36).

A system (1) for preventing or limiting control of a lighting device (31-33) in a first connected lighting system (41) is configured to determine a current or expected state of the lighting device, determine control permissions based on the current or expected state of the lighting device, and prevent or limit control of the lighting device by a second connected lighting system (42) located in a same building as the first connected lighting system in dependence on the control permissions.

Disclosed herein is an evacuation system for apartments in a building comprises: a) a support surface adapted for holding an evacuation air vehicle, said evacuation platform is configured to be installed on the exterior side of a building, outside one or more designated evacuation apertures in a peripheral wall of one or more building units, wherein the evacuation platform is adapted with an alignment mechanism configured to manually, or controllably shift said evacuation platform between a stored position and alignment with said designated evacuation aperture, b) an evacuation air vehicle held on said evacuation platform in a stored state and is configured to fly one or more persons that evacuate thereto from said building to a determined destination, wherein said evacuation air vehicle is configured to extend, with said support surface, within the interspace between two adjacent evacuation apertures on subsequent building floors, and one or more controllers configured to monitor and / or control the operation of various components of said evacuation system.

Embodiments of the inventive concept measure the amount of electrical power being consumed in one or more houses or buildings, before the utility meter or meters. These measurements are used by a smart load manager (SLM) apparatus, in addition to information about the maximum capacity of the electrical lines that are being measured, to maximize the number of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) units that can be installed in the one or more buildings, and maximize the amount of power that is available for electric vehicle (EV) charging at any given time.

The present invention provides a monitoring and control device and a control method that can suitably monitor and control building equipment installed in multiple buildings, while suppressing communication charges and without impose unnecessary data usage restrictions, thereby not compromising the ability to monitor building equipment. [Solution] The processor 111 sets a threshold for the amount of data to be sent and received between each of the multiple controllers 220 and the communication IF 113 for the current month. The sum of the thresholds for each of the multiple controllers 220 is a sum of thresholds smaller than the communication upper limit. If one of the multiple controllers 220 exceeds the threshold for the amount of data to be sent and received for the current month, the processor 111 makes the data reception cycle between the exceeding controller 220 and the communication IF 113 longer than the current reception cycle.

This invention discloses a smart building energy consumption optimization and comfort control system based on BIM-IoT integration, comprising: a BIM-IoT integrated digital twin module; a load prediction module based on a thermodynamic model; a multi-system collaborative optimization control module; and an equipment fault diagnosis module. By constructing a building digital twin model and integrating BIM static parameters and IoT dynamic data, this invention achieves accurate prediction of building heat load, multi-system collaborative optimization control, and intelligent balance between energy consumption and comfort, thereby significantly reducing building operating energy consumption and improving user experience.

A sealing frame for mounting a closure within an aperture in a building. The mounting frame comprises a main frame structure and a sealing component. The main frame structure is arranged so that, in use, the main frame structure extends around a perimeter of the building aperture. The sealing component is for a closure frame of the closure, the sealing component extending, in use, away from the main frame structure and into the building aperture. In one embodiment first and second sealing surfaces are defined by the sealing frame which face in the same direction and are offset from one another along the depth axis of the building aperture. In another embodiment either a frame seal is provided on the sealing component to seal to a closure frame or the sealing frame further comprises a mounting flange having a building seal to seal to the building. In another embodiment a first portion of the main frame structure extends along a depth axis of the building aperture to close a cavity formed between inner and outer building layers and the main frame structure defines a second sealing surface which is adapted to abut a building surface for sealing the sealing frame to the building around the perimeter of the building aperture.

The invention relates to a method (100) for generating mutually synchronized control signals by means of a control system (300) to an elevator system (110) located in a building (100) and to at least one mobile robot (200) operating in the building. The method comprises: receiving (510) a service request from an external system (310); detecting (520) that completion of the requested service requires service from the elevator system (110) and the at least one mobile robot (200); generating (530) a first control signal to the elevator system (110) and a second control signal to the at least one mobile robot (200), the control signals causing the elevator system (110) and the at least one mobile robot (200) to operate in a synchronized manner to complete the service. The invention also relates to a control system and a computer program product.

A method and an apparatus are provided for on-demand and instant warm water supply at the point of consumption. In this method, only cold water is distributed and supplied to different places within a building through a single piping system. The apparatus has only a single input pipe for cold water and heats water in a heating unit just as needed on demand at the point of consumption after harvesting the heat energy of wastewater from drainage. The heating unit alternatives are a magnetron for generating microwaves or a thermoelectric body that heats the input water instantly and as needed and no more through a closed-loop controller. No hot and cold-water mixer is used. The method and apparatus help the building industry save on plumbing costs and consumed energy and water while bringing more comfort to users through direct and local heating of water on demand and as adjusted instantly.

The invention provides an elevator system which can accurately measure the swinging of a building caused by an earthquake and can easily carry out the maintenance work of an acceleration sensor. An elevator system is provided with: a car capable of rising and falling inside a hoistway that passes through each floor of a building; a detector which is provided in the building and detects a swing; a control panel for controlling the operation of the car; an information center device provided in a building different from the building; a remote monitoring device which acquires information from the control panel and transmits the information to the information center device; and a plurality of acceleration sensors provided inside the hoistway and capable of measuring acceleration, the plurality of acceleration sensors being provided at positions corresponding to a plurality of target floors in the building, respectively, and storing the acceleration measured by each of the plurality of acceleration sensors when the detector detects a swing greater than a predetermined value due to an earthquake.

A district heating and cooling system 100 comprises a pipe network 102 to supply potable water to a plurality of buildings, at least one heat pump 104 disposed at each building 106 of the plurality of

To appropriately perform the integrated management of a building by allocating resources to the building according to an actual situation.SOLUTION: The building integrated management apparatus 10 includes an information acquisition unit 13 connected to a resource group 100 allocated to each building 3 and used for operation of the building 3 and configured to acquire building-related information 180 on the building 3, a resource estimation unit 14 configured to estimate a necessary resource amount in the building 3 based on the building-related information 180, and a resource adjustment unit 15 configured to adjust allocation of resources to the building 3 according to the necessary resource amount.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1