Ademco Inc.

Honeywell International Inc.

Aaron J Klein

Eric James Barton

Robert D Juntunen

Steven C Nichols

David Schultz

Gabriel A Bergman

David Quam

Josef Novotny

Brad Edward Paine

Jonathan Paul Frenz

Christopher Goh

Kevin L Weirich

Riley Gerszewski

Robert J Schnell

Pavel Marak

Heidi Finch

Jeffrey Boll

Paul Derby

Petr Adamik

Ramprasad Yelchuru

Cameron Kip Vreeland

Michael Bruce

Rudolph Gamberini

Devin Diedrich

Huanmin Bao

Dan Murr

Luis Carlos Murillo Carrasco

Ricardo Gonzalez

Huanimin Bao

Jonathan Frenz

The disclosure describes an environmental control device with a head unit including processing circuitry and one or more sensors configured to send signals to an environmental control system to make adjustments to the room environment. The head unit is configured to connect to a wall plate that supports the head unit. The wall plate may include an ID device configured to identify the type environmental control equipment to which the wall plate is configured to connect. Once connected to the wall plate the head unit may detect the ID device, determine an ID value from the ID device and customize a presentation of setup parameters for the head unit.

Identification device for an HVAC controller

A wireless controller to set a programmable setpoint of a remote HVAC unit that thermostatically controls a temperature in a space using the temperature sensed and a programmable setpoint. The wireless controller may include a transmitter, a memory, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The wireless controller may transmit commands to set the programmable setpoint of the remote HVAC unit, wait until the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor of the wireless controller stabilizes, determine a difference between the desired setpoint temperature and the stabilized temperature, and if the offset temperature is greater than or equal to a threshold offset, determine an updated control setpoint temperature and transmit commands to set the programmable setpoint of the remote HVAC unit to an updated control setpoint temperature.

Method and system for controlling a mini-split HVAC unit from a remote location

A system and approach for a self-calculating test of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning load. The test may be run upon meeting predetermined conditions. Thermostatic control of the load may be disabled when the load test starts. If a call for heat or cool is made at the thermostat, response to the call may be delayed until the load test is completed, and if AC power is lost during the test, the test may finish and allow detection of the phantom AC detection device with a loss of AC power. If a voltage of a storage capacitor falls below a battery boost threshold, the test may be cancelled to allow the phantom circuit charge the storage capacitor. The system and approach may incorporate load test states that include an initialize state, start test state, get baseline state, test measure state, stabilize measurement state, calculation state, and finalize results state.

Power transformation self characterization mode

Systems, assemblies, and methods include features for selecting a fan speed priority setting to facilitate dehumidification of a space while maintaining a comfortable temperature in the building across a range of cooling loads. In one example, an electronic assembly may operate a multi-speed fan at a lower fan speed or higher fan speed based, at least in part, on a current cooling load on the cooling system of the building and a dehumidification high fan speed priority setting entered by a user.

Dehumidification control system

A building automation system may adjust operation of a building system based upon information regarding the relative location of one or more users of the building automation system. In some embodiments, a mobile device having location services for determining a location of the mobile device may provide this information. A mobile device may include a user interface, a memory for storing two or more predetermined geo-fences each defining a different sized region about a home of a user of the mobile device and a controller operatively coupled to user interface and the memory, the controller configured to accept a selection of one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences via the user interface. The controller may report when the location of the mobile device crosses the selected one of the two or more predetermined geo-fences to a remote device. Other geofencing approaches are also described.

Building automation system with geo-fencing

An HVAC controller may be programmed to execute a guided set up routine that may guide a user through configuring the thermostat to control a particular HVAC system configuration based, at least in part, on which wires from the HVAC system are connected to terminals of the HVAC controller. The guided set-up routine may be accessible through a user interface provided at a remote device that a user may utilize to interact with the HVAC controller from a remote location.

Setup routine to facilitate user setup of an HVAC controller

A mobile device having location services stores information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building and stores a geo-fence log including one or more mobile device parameters and one or more geo-fence crossing events. The mobile device may determine the location of the mobile device via the location services and may determine when a geo-fence crossing event has occurred. Each of the geo-fence crossing events may be recorded in the geo-fence log, which may be uploaded to a remote server from time to time.

Geo-fencing with diagnostic feature

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Aaron J Klein