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Tyco Fire + Security Gmbh

Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings Llp

Joseph C Jones

Michael J Wenzel

Kirk H Drees

Mohammad N ElBsat

Andrew J Przybylski

John H Burroughs

Robbie G Davis

Leigh-Golding DeSantis

Nicole Elyse James

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for improving sustainability of a building. The building includes a plurality of pieces of building equipment that control one or more environmental conditions of the building based on operational settings. One building system includes one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine, using data that pertains to at least one of the building or the plurality of pieces of building equipment, a plurality of baseline values for a plurality of sustainability parameters associated with the building, receive a user defined sustainability goal for at least a subset of the plurality of sustainability parameters, analyze operating parameters of at least a portion of the plurality of pieces of building equipment to determine one or more changes to the operating parameters predicted to fulfill the user defined sustainability goal, alone or in combination with one or more other changes to the building, provide one or more recommendations to implement the one or more changes to the operating parameters to meet the user defined sustainability goal, receive a command to implement at least one change of the one or more changes to the operating parameters and determine a revised set of operating parameters for at least a first piece of building equipment of the plurality of pieces of building equipment responsive to the command to implement the at least one change to the operating parameters.

Systems and methods for sustainability planning for a building

A controller includes a processing circuit comprising one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include determining a gradient of an objective function with respect to a constraint variable used to define a constraint on a control process that uses the objective function and modifying the constraint variable to have a modified value in response to determining that a trigger condition is satisfied. The trigger condition is based on the gradient. The operations include performing the control process subject to the constraint using the modified value of the constraint variable and operating equipment in accordance with a result of the control process.

Building control system with load curtailment optimization

A race starting device for personal watercraft includes a thrust diverter connectable to the watercraft comprising a tube having an intake end adapted for alignment with the discharge nozzle of the watercraft, and a discharge end that is displaced from the intake end by a bent section of the tube to divert water flow from the water craft and thereby inhibit forward propulsion thereof until released. The diverter has the effect of deflecting the thrust from the watercraft and thereby inhibiting its forward propulsion. A quick release mechanism is also provided to releasably secure the thrust diverter to the watercraft. The release mechanism may be controlled by the watercraft operator to selectively release the device and allow the watercraft to thrust forwardly, leaving the starting device behind. Groups of the thrust diverters and quick release mechanisms may be provided on common frames for group starts. In one, a single quick release mechanism is provided to simultaneously start several racers.

Personal water craft race starting device

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Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

Joseph C Jones