Honeywell International Inc.

Ademco Inc.

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Amit Kulkarni

SrinivasaRao Katuri

Soumitri N Kolavennu

Patrick S Gonia

Steve D Huseth

Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan

Rajkumar Palanivel

Hisao M Chang

Cary Leen

Robert D Juntunen

Steven R Hoglund

Josef Novotny

Hai D Pham

Heidi Finch

Manjuprakash Rama Rao

Hari Thiruvengada

David Mulhouse

Preston Gilmer

Christopher Goh

Tomas Losak

Atul Laxman Katole

Umesh Hosamani

Jay Nelson

Thomas C Gessner

Daniel Becvar

Martin Adamek

Adam Nemcek

Deepthi Sethuraman

Juraj Buno

Libor Horky

Martin Skala

David R Kaufman

Aditya Narendrakumar Vora

David Bures

Petr Kasparik

Roman Konecny

Jan Malek

Douglas Beaudet

Aravind Padmanabhan

Cleopatra Cabuz

Jayaprakash Meruva

Himanshu Khurana

Jesse J Otis

Arunkumar Kamalakannan

Arun V Mahasenan

David Joseph Wunderlin

Mohammed Rizwan

Rongbao Nie

Sameer D Manikfan

Max Peterschmidt

Monica Ravi

Shubhankar Sundriyal

Ganesh Ratilal Patil

Raja Sekhar Chanapathi

Parimal Kulkarni

Vijay Nikam

Harry M Chang

Vimal Kant

Ulf Duerr

Justin Jose

Zhong Liu

David Demoulpied

Peter Bonitatibus

Brian Bales

Robert Edgar Colborn

Andrew Torres

Paul Buckley

Srinivasarao Katuri

Heidi J Finch

Prabhu Palanisamy

Oskar Axelsson

An antenna system formed by one or more layers of a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The antenna system includes a first antenna element configured to resonate in a first frequency band centered at about 5.4 GHz and a second antenna element configured to resonate in a second frequency band centered at about 2.4 GHz. The first antenna element and the second antenna element fit within a rectangular area of less than about 100 square millimeters on the PCB. The first antenna element has a bandwidth of at least 2 GHz and the second antenna element has a bandwidth of at least 100 MHz, wherein the bandwidth is defined as having less than a −10 dB return loss within the band. The first antenna element and the second antenna element may be formed on a common conductive layer of a PCB.

Compact dual band antenna

Devices, methods, and systems for virtualizing a security panel, fire panel, and/or access panel using 5G network slices are described herein. One on-premise virtualized building control panel system device, includes a processor, memory, having instructions stored therein that are executable by the processor to provide a fifth generation (5G) network core to a building in which the device is located, establish a first network slice that defines a first subnetwork slice, the first subnetwork slice having a defined bandwidth and only communicating data and instructions relating to building control functions, and communication connections to communicate instructions and data between the control panel system device and 5G base stations and building sensing devices within the building.

Method of virtualizing a security panel, fire panel, and access panel using private 5G network slices

Methods and systems for monitoring blockages of emergency escape routes and emergency exits of a building include capturing a plurality of images which may correspond to an emergency escape route and/or an emergency exit of a building. The plurality of images may be analyzed to determine when a stationary object is present and at least partially blocking the emergency escape route and/or the emergency exit. If a blockage is detected, a user may be notified of the blockage.

Systems and methods for identifying blockages of emergency exists in a building

Each of a plurality of assets within a building are configured to access a cellular network in order to ascertain its specific location, to perform self-diagnostics on itself, and to transmit an assistance request when the self-diagnostics indicates a potential problem. The assistance request may include the specific location of the asset and an indication of the potential problem. A server is operably couplable to the cellular network and is configured to receive the assistance requests from the assets, formulate a service request for responding to at least some of the received assistance requests, assign each of the service requests to a corresponding one of one or more automated asset maintenance assistants, and transmit each of the service requests to the assigned automated asset maintenance assistant instructing the assigned automated asset maintenance assistant to respond to the corresponding assistance request.

System and method for servicing assets in a building

A method includes receiving vehicle data for a plurality of vehicles in a parking facility over time, the vehicle data including a time t1 indicating when each of the vehicles leaves its corresponding parking spot in the parking facility, and a time t2 indicating when each of the plurality of vehicles reaches an exit of the parking facility. An egress time is determined for each of the plurality of vehicles based at least in part on the corresponding times t1 and t2. A timestamp is assigned to each of the egress times, resulting in timestamped egress times. A current egress time of the parking facility is estimated based at least in part on the timestamped egress times. An action recommendation is based at least in part on the current egress time of the parking facility and is outputted for subsequent viewing by the driver of the particular vehicle.

System and method for tracking egress times from a parking facility and providing action recommendations

Methods and systems for identifying human activity in a building. An illustrative method includes storing one or more room sound profiles for a room in a building based at least in part on background audio captured in the room without a presence of humans in the room. Background noise filters are generated for the room based on the room sound profiles. Real time audio may be captured from the room and filtered with at least one of the background noise filters. The filtered real time audio may be analyzed to identify one or more sounds associated with human activity in the room. A situation report may be generated based at least in part on the identified one or more sounds associated with human activity in the room and transmitted for use by a user.

Methods and systems for human activity tracking

Methods, devices, and computer-readable media for providing integrative comfort a structure are described herein. One method includes determining a comfort preference associated with a user of a mobile device, the comfort preference including a plurality of aspects of physical comfort, storing the comfort preference in a memory, and modifying a respective operation of a plurality of connected devices in a portion of a structure to provide the comfort preference in the portion of the structure responsive to a distance between the mobile device and the portion of the structure being less than a particular threshold.

Providing integrative comfort in a structure

A method and system for detecting faults in a communication interface is disclosed. The communication interface is connected to a field device and a device bus comprising generating periodic diagnostic pulse by a programing unit. The programming unit is communicatively connected to the controller and a controller interface and provides the diagnostic pulse to a multiplexer to periodically apply the diagnostic pulses from the programming unit to a first winding of a transformer. The programming unit provides the diagnostic pulse to the isolation unit. A sensing unit senses a voltage drop across a sense resistor, the sensing unit having an input connected to the sense resistor and an output connected to the programming unit. The sensing unit communicates a sense signal based on the comparison to the programming unit, and switches from a primary or a secondary module to the other based on the sense signal.

Apparatus and method for diagnosing faults in a fieldbus interface module

Methods and system for adding sensors/devices to a building management system. An illustrative universal backplane for accepting a plurality of building control sensors may include a housing configured to be secured relative to a wall of a building and a plurality of universal sensor receiving bays each including the same mechanical and electrical interface for selectively receiving one of a plurality of compatible building control sensors. Each of the plurality of compatible building control sensors may be compatible with the mechanical and electrical interface of the universal sensor receiving bays. The backplane may further include a controller operatively coupled to each of the plurality of universal sensor receiving bays, the controller configured to automatically discover each of the compatible building control sensors, if any, received by the plurality of universal sensor receiving bays and a communication module operatively coupled to the controller for communicating with a building control system.

Wall mountable universal backplane

A method of controlling an HVAC system can include receiving audio that includes a predefined trigger phrase followed by a voice command to change a set point temperature of the HVAC system to a requested set point value, converting the audio into a natural language audio stream, identifying the predefined trigger phrase in the natural language audio stream, transmitting a part of the natural language audio stream that includes the voice command to a remote web service for identifying the voice command therein, receiving a first building control device command generated by and from the remote web service at a building control device when the requested set point value is within a predetermined range, and receiving a second building control command generated by and from the remote web service at the building control device when the requested set point value is outside of the predetermined range.

Devices and methods for interacting with an HVAC controller

An apparatus includes a microcontroller () configured to read from a Management Information Base (MIB) register () of an Ethernet switch () to obtain MIB statistic data () regarding a first Ethernet port of the Ethernet switch. The microcontroller is configured to transmit the obtained MIB statistic data to a field programmable gate array (FPGA) (). The FPGA is configured to receive and store the obtained MIB statistic data in a buffer memory (). The FPGA is configured to encapsulate the obtained MIB statistic data in an Ethernet frame (). The FPGA is configured to determine a vacant time slot during which the Ethernet switch is not transmitting data to an external device (). The FPGA is configured to transmit the Ethernet frame to the external device during the vacant time slot.

MIB data broadcast using inexpensive method incorporating microcontroller and FPGA

Speech recognition methods, devices, and systems are described herein. One system includes a number of microphones configured to capture sound in an area, a digital signal processor configured to segregate the captured sound into a plurality of signals, wherein each respective signal corresponds to a different portion of the area, and an automatic speech recognition engine configured to separately process each of the plurality of signals to recognize a speech command in the captured sound.

Speech recognition methods, devices, and systems

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Plymouth, MN, United States of America

Amit Kulkarni