Honeywell International Inc.

Ademco Inc.

Appar Vallikannu

Janaki Krishnaswamy

Raman Subramaniam

Hemanth Padikkal Veettil

Sunanda Kashayya Patrimath

Anju Chandran

Venugopal Krishnappa

This disclosure relates to methods, systems, and devices for detecting an operational mode of a building component of an environmental control system. In some instances, the apparatus may include a sensor for outputting a signal related to a measure of power drawn by the building component. The sensor may be a current sensor associated with a power cord of an air conditioning unit. The signal output by the sensor may be received by a signal conditioning circuit for conditioning the signal received from the sensor such as, for example, by amplifying and/or filtering. A comparator may be configured to compare the conditioned signal to a specified threshold associated with an ON condition and/or an OFF condition of the building component. The apparatus may include a wireless interface configured to wirelessly transmit a determination of whether the building component is ON or OFF based on the result determined by the comparator.

Method and system for detecting an operational mode of a building control component

A building control device comprising a wireless interface and a controller configured to monitor when the wireless interface becomes disconnected from the network. When the wireless interface becomes disconnected from the network, the controller may attempt to reconnect the wireless interface to the network and if successful, return to monitoring for when the wireless interface becomes disconnected from the network. If not successful, the controller may switch the wireless interface into a configuration mode to establish a direct wireless connection with a remote device, receive updated network credentials from the remote device while in the configuration mode, exit the configuration mode, and connect the wireless interface to the network or another network using the updated network credentials.

Network connectivity of a building control device

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