Honeywell International Inc.

American Harvest, Inc.

Robert Boschgmbh

Rosemount Inc.

Interactive Learning Group, Inc.

Kevin B Moore

Stalin Gutha

Lavanya Bhadriraju

Daniel J Sullivan

Ankur Jhawar

David A Dornbush

Levi H Geadelmann

Neal P Barnes

Jeffrey E Sandahl

Janaki Krishnaswamy

Subramanya Tavarekere Nagaraj

James B Easley

Chad S Erickson

Geoffrey Ho

Richard C Jackson

Andrew L Von Duyke

Aaron D'Souza

Troy M Iverson

Michael F Meyer

Paul C Wacker

Gutha Stalin Sanghamitra

Stephen D Anderson

Ralph Collins Brindle

Keith Jenkins

Jason Brchan

Gabriel A Maalouf

Jim Andersen

Jeffrey S Duncan

Daniel V Hulse

La Rhue Gene Friesen

Paul D Kammann

Thejasvini Shivanagendra

La Ruhe Gene Friesen

Michael A Fritz

Stalin Gutha Sanghamitra

Ralph K Strader

Fredrik Borjesson

Robert C Voss

Soumya Ramesh

A mobile intercom device is described that is configured to facilitate the assignment and reassignment of functions during use. A plurality of button pairs, each including a talk button and a listen button, and a display screen are provided on the mobile intercom device. An electronic processor of the mobile intercom device is configured to display a list of alphanumeric identifiers on the display screen, each alphanumeric identifier in the list of alphanumeric identifiers corresponding to a different one of a plurality of channels on the intercom system. A selection of a first alphanumeric identifier from the list is received and a channel on the intercom system corresponding to the first alphanumeric identifier is assigned to a first button pair of the plurality of button pairs.

Portable keypanel for intercom system

A system to automate creation of a configuration wizard from, for example, an underlying control application. In one instance, a complex application may be represented with a simple configuration view such as that of a configuration wizard. When an application is being created, a user may be provided with a feature that defines the configuration wizard. Some aspects of the present approach are that a wizard user interface may be automatically generated, a standard approach may be provided to define the wizard, and, for changes which are performed in the application, the wizard may easily be edited and regenerated.

Automatic application wizard

An approach for switching between point types without affecting control logic. The control logic may have a function block, input and output points connected with links to the function block. A point may be changed from one type to another type of point without affecting its link. A type of point may be modulating, binary, software, constant, or other.

Approach for switching between point types without affecting control logic

An HVAC control system that accommodates and/or facilitates control from a remote location. The HVAC control system may include a web-enabled building control appliance that has a controller, a first port and a second port. The controller may implement a web server that is coupled to the first port for serving up one or more web pages on a first network and for receiving a number of responses. The controller may also be coupled to the second port so as to communicate with one or more communicating thermostats via a second network. The web server may be adapted to provide one or more web-pages via the first port that solicit information including schedule and/or non-schedule thermostat configuration information, and for receiving the information via one or more of the responses.

Remote HVAC control with universal engineering tool

An HVAC control system that accommodates and/or facilitates control from a remote location. The HVAC control system may include a web-enabled building control appliance having a controller, a first port and a second port. The controller may implement a web server that is coupled to the first port for serving up one or more web pages on a first network and for receiving a number of responses. The controller may also be coupled to the second port so as to communicate with one or more communicating thermostats via a second network. The web server may be adapted to provide an overview or summary web-page via the first port that displays information regarding the one or more thermostats, where the information that is displayed may be customized for a particular user.

Remote HVAC control with a customizable overview display

A protocol independent programming tool for constructing control logic. The control logic may be constructed without dealing in the details of an underlying protocol. The protocol details may be abstracted and exposed and generic points used in constructing the logic. The tool may automatically map or translate the points used in the logic to protocol specific entities.

Protocol independent programming environment

A priority selection mechanism for driving outputs from control logic which can be automatically translated to controllers of various protocols. The priority selection mechanism may assign a priority to the outputs and select the output having the highest priority as the output of the control logic. There may be an abstract representation of the priority logic which may permit a protocol mechanism to be used in the logic without the designer or user needing to know the details of the mechanism.

Priority selection mechanism for driving outputs from control logic for controllers of various protocols

An approach to automatically encode application enumeration values to enable reuse of applications across controller of different protocols. Protocols may use different sets of enumerations to denote various application values and states. The present approach may permit defining a common set of enumerations which can be encoded automatically by a tool that enables reuse. Application designers may define enumerations to be used by the control application and the tool will automatically encode them into communication protocol specific enumeration values.

Approach to automatically encode application enumeration values to enable reuse of applications across various controllers

A configuration tool for a programmable HVAC controller is provided. The configuration tool may accept user input, and may generate a corresponding configuration profile based on the user input. The configuration profile may be downloaded to a programmable HVAC controller, which may, among other things, reconfigure the I/O terminals of the programmable HVAC controller. The configuration tool may generate a terminal diagram that labels at least some of the I/O terminals of the programmable HVAC controller based on the particular configuration profile. In some cases, the configuration tool may output the terminal diagram in a format that can be printed on a label, with the label being suitable for adhering to the programmable HVAC controller.

Configurable HVAC controller terminal labeling

A graphical approach to setup data sharing between two controllers. Symbols that represent controllers may be placed on a wiresheet. A link may be constructed between the controllers by connecting the symbols with a line drawn between them. The resulting link information may lead to a compile and download of binding tables to the pertinent controller. The designer or user need not setup several levels of mapping by populating multiple tables to effect the binding for a link between the controllers. This binding may be done automatically under a hood without the designer or user needing to be aware of the binding activity. This approach for graphically constructing a link may be particularly applicable to BACnet controllers.

Graphical approach to setup data sharing between two controllers

A mechanism for constructing generic control logic with versions of the logic automatically generated and stored for one or more protocols. The complexity of the one or more protocols may be hidden under a hood of the mechanism from the view of engineers, programmers and users so as to improve their productivity relative to control logic designs and applications.

Mechanism for constructing generic control logic including versions in various protocols

An HVAC control system that accommodates and/or facilitates control from a remote location. The HVAC control system may include a web-enabled building control appliance with a controller, a first port and a second port. The controller may implement a web server that is coupled to the first port for serving up one or more web pages on a first network and for receiving a number of responses. The controller may be coupled to the second port so as to communicate with one or more communicating thermostats via a second network. The web server may provide one or more web-pages via the first port that solicit and receive information pertaining to one or more remote sensors that are to be connected to one of the one or more thermostats. The web server may provide a wiring diagram for the one or more remote sensors that is dependent on the received information pertaining to one or more remote sensors.

Remote HVAC control with remote sensor wiring diagram generation

An HVAC control system that accommodates and/or facilitates control from a remote location. The HVAC control system may include a web-enabled building control appliance having a controller, a first port and a second port. The controller may implement a web server that is coupled to the first port for serving up one or more web pages on a first network and for receiving a number of responses. The controller may be coupled to the second port so as to communicate with one or more communicating thermostats via a second network. The web server may provide one or more web-pages via the first port that display a graphical floor plan of the building, and permit a user to drag and drop individual building control device images that correspond to the one or more building control devices onto the floor plan.

Remote HVAC control with building floor plan tool

A receiver receives modulated message signals in non-coherent FSK and coherent 8PSK protocols. A selectively configurable processor demodulates the message signals, and includes a demodulator that derives in-phase and quadrature signals based on the message signals. A phase detector is responsive to the in-phase and quadrature signals and delayed in-phase and quadrature signals to derive a phase signal. A selector is responsive to the in-phase and quadrature signals to selectively connect a loop filter between the phase detector and the demodulator. When the selector connects the filter between the phase detector and demodulator, the demodulator is responsive to filtered phase signals to lock onto a frequency of the message signals so that the processor operates as a phase locked loop to demodulate coherent modulated signals. When the selector disconnects the filter from between the phase detector and the demodulator, the demodulator demodulates non-coherent modulated signals and the phase detector supplies a phase signal representing the slope of the phase of the demodulated signal.

Method and apparatus for demodulating coherent and non-coherent modulated signals

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