Venstar, Inc.

Mustafa Oransel

Steven D Dushane

Stephen Tudhope

Craig Godwin

Richard Russo

Steven David Dushane

Systems and methods for controlling the ambient temperature within a region or zone of a building are disclosed. A system comprises a thermostat, one or more sensors placed throughout an environment, a computing cloud, and a remote mobile or desktop device running a software application ('app'). An end user may interact with an app running on the mobile device or desktop. The app may display the current conditions in a house and allow the user to select specific temperature sensors located throughout the house which the user wants to monitor and control. This selection of one or more temperature sensors is communicated to the computing cloud, and the computing cloud sends commands to the thermostat to monitor the user's selected temperature sensors for controlling the heating and cooling of the house.

Easy control to sensor select for HVAC systems

The present sensor device, system and method provides tools for measuring, recording local environmental conditions, such as temperature and humidity, and wirelessly transmitting the collected data to a server. The sensor device is configured to, under normal operation, maintain the connection between the wireless network interface controller and the wireless local network so that various commands and/or communications can be received, whether the sensor device is in a low power mode or in an active mode. The sensor device cycles between the low power mode and the active mode, and back to the low power mode. Where in each active mode cycle, the sensor device is configured to acquire a measurement from sensor for storage in local memory, and/or transmit historical data acquired to the server, and/or check for updates by connecting to the server. By normally remaining in a low power mode and only waking periodically to conduct a task, battery life is greatly extended.

Power saving remote sensor system and methods

An apparatus, method and computer program product for controlling wirelessly controlled equipment, such as a ductless air conditioning system. A control module is provided comprising an optical source for generating an optical control signal. The control module enables a smartphone to control wirelessly controlled equipment of the type which is controlled by a remote-control device generating an optical signal. An electrical circuit generates electrical control signals to be coupled to the optical source, wherein the electrical circuit generates the electrical control signals depending on information received from a network connection. A wireless communications module communicates with the smartphone. A mobile application stored in a memory of the smartphone communicates user selections from the smartphone over the network connection to the apparatus to implement transmission of electrical control signals to the control module to cause the control module to cause the optical source to generate the optical control signals to control the operation of the wirelessly controlled equipment.

Networked thermostat control for ductless HVAC

The pending disclosure describes embodiments of systems, devices and methods of controlling load operations on customer premises based on configuration. Such embodiments include storing output control configuration rules in a memory coupled to a load system controller. Further, such embodiments include receiving configuration instructions from at least one of a remote server and user interface. In addition, such embodiments include configuring the load system into one or more zones based on configuration instructions. Moreover, such embodiments include configuring each zone to be associated with one or more input devices based on configuration instructions. Also, such embodiments include configuring each of the one or more input devices based on configuration instructions. Further, such embodiments include configuring one or more output devices based on configuring the one or more zones, one or more input devices in each zone, the configuration instructions, and the output control configuration rules.

Systems, devices and methods of controlling lighting and appliances on a customer premises based on configuration rules

The pending disclosure describes embodiments of systems, devices and methods of controlling lighting and appliances on a customer premises based on configuration rules. Such embodiments include responsive to the receipt of at least one configuration instruction, one or more participant zone(s) is selected from a plurality of zones that designate predefined sections of at least one customer premise based upon the received configuration instruction and a plurality of stored output control configuration rules of the plurality of zones. For the selected participant zone(s), one or more output configuration is generated and outputted based upon the selected participant zone(s), the received configuration instruction, and the stored output control configuration rules of the selected participant zone.

Systems, devices and methods for remotely controlling loads in response to configuration rules and networked accessories

The present invention provides an environment measurement monitoring and response system. The present invention provides a method, system and program for managing multiple environmental systems in retail store locations geographically remote from each other.

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West Hills, CA, United States of America

Mustafa Oransel