Scoring a building's atmospheric environment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building atmospheric environment control systems lack a comprehensive method to combine diverse metrics like thermal comfort, ventilation, and air quality into a single, actionable score, making it difficult to assess and optimize the overall environmental quality effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a processor and computer-readable memory to receive signals from sensors indicative of thermal comfort, ventilation, and air quality, normalizing these signals into composite scores that can be combined to provide a single score indicative of the atmospheric environment, allowing for notification and potential automated adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple separate metrics (thermal comfort, ventilation, air quality) are individually controlled, then each specific metric can be optimized, but the overall atmospheric environment assessment becomes complex and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate environmental metrics (thermal comfort, ventilation, air quality) into a single composite atmospheric score. This merging approach maintains the precision of individual measurements while simplifying the overall assessment into one manageable indicator that reflects the complete atmospheric environment quality.
2Reliability
If a comprehensive combination of multiple metrics is used to assess atmospheric environment, then overall environmental quality can be evaluated, but the system complexity and difficulty of implementation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms multiple complex environmental parameters into a single simplified score through normalization and weighting. This parameter transformation maintains the reliability of comprehensive assessment by preserving the contribution of each metric while changing the form of representation to a single easy-to-operate composite score.
3Manufacturing precision
If individual metrics are controlled separately, then specific environmental factors can be optimized, but the integrated atmospheric quality cannot be effectively determined
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a feedback mechanism where individual metric measurements are continuously integrated into a composite atmospheric score. This feedback loop ensures that while each metric can be controlled with precision, the overall atmospheric quality information is preserved and communicated through the composite score that reflects the combined state of all environmental factors.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatus and associated methods relate to calculating a single composite score that indicates an atmospheric environment quality level of a building. Such a composite score is calculated using sensors from three distinct types of atmospheric environmental categories: i) thermal comfort; ii) ventilation; and iii) air quality. Because the sensors used to detect these distinct types of atmospheric environmental categories are indicative of dissimilar metrics of quality of the atmospheric environment, the dissimilar metrics are normalized so as to be combinable. The dissimilar metrics are normalized based on measures of acceptability of the metrics. Each of the dissimilar metrics is given the same normalized score when the dissimilar metrics correspond to the same level of acceptability for that metric. The levels of acceptability may be determined based on one or more building industry standards.