Honeywell International Inc.

Ademco Inc.

Honeywell G.m.b.h.

Other

Robert D Juntunen

Soumitri N Kolavennu

John B Amundson

Steven C Nichols

James I Bartels

David Mulhouse

Kenneth B Kidder

Patrick R Lemire

Kurt Robideau

Gabriel A Bergman

Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal

Michael Lunacek

Hyunki Kim

Peter E Stolt

Cary Leen

Amit Kulkarni

Josef Novotny

Steven R Hoglund

Heidi Finch

Hari Thiruvengada

Preston Gilmer

Christopher Goh

Nagaraj Chickmagalur Lakshminarayan

Aaron J Klein

Tomas Losak

Thomas C Gessner

Jay Nelson

Martin Adamek

Daniel Becvar

Adam Nemcek

Juraj Buno

Libor Horky

Martin Skala

Scott Paul O'Leary

Devin Diedrich

Jesus Omar Ponce

Richard M Solosky

Petr Kasparik

Roman Konecny

Luis Carlos Murillo Carrasco

Jan Malek

David Bures

Eric James Barton

Patrick S Gonia

Kenneth G Eskildsen

Brad Alan Terlson

David Schultz

William R Blum

Paul B Patton

Jonathan Paul Frenz

Robert E Lee

Roger R Roth

Jason L Ableitner

Jiri Sapak

Timothy F McCarthy

Anuj Kohli

Liliana Reategui

Milos Cabel

Arun Handanakere Sheshagiri

Norman G Planer

Cesar Alejandro Arzate

Matthew E L Jungwirth

Rajeev Ranjan

Ludek Zavodny

Sheetal R Kadam

Roman Cervinka

Max Peterschmidt

Eduardo Saenz Balderrama

Jan Crha

Curtis B McNamara

Bertrand Jean Michel Debever

Guy M Shoultz

Heidi J Finch

The disclosure describes an environmental control device with a head unit including processing circuitry and one or more sensors configured to send signals to an environmental control system to make adjustments to the room environment. The head unit is configured to connect to a wall plate that supports the head unit. The wall plate may include an ID device configured to identify the type environmental control equipment to which the wall plate is configured to connect. Once connected to the wall plate the head unit may detect the ID device, determine an ID value from the ID device and customize a presentation of setup parameters for the head unit.

Identification device for an HVAC controller

Power stealing circuitry to provide power to a controller for an environmental control system. The power stealing circuitry may include a first circuit, to steal power when a load for a stage is switched off, e.g. de-energized. The power stealing circuitry may include a second circuit, e.g., a power trickle circuit, to steal power when the load is switched on, e.g., energized. The load may include a furnace, electrical heating element, heat pump, humidifier, electrostatic filter, air conditioning unit and so on. In some examples, the environmental control system may have one or many stages, each with a separate load. The controller may include power stealing circuitry for each stage of the environmental control system. In other words, the controller may include a first circuit and a second circuit for each stage of a multi-stage environmental control system.

Power stealing system for low power thermostats

A communication rate between a cloud-based server and an HVAC controller located within a building may be controlled based on the amount of power available at the HVAC controller. The cloud-based server may notify a user if the amount of power available at the HVAC controller is determined to be low.

Systems and methods to control a communication rate between a thermostat and a cloud based server

An apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to output, to a plurality of devices, an initial superframe configured in an initial superframe mode of a plurality of superframe modes. Each superframe mode of the plurality of superframe modes allocating each slot of a plurality of slots for wireless communication to a first protocol, a second protocol, or a third protocol. In response to determining a change in bandwidth, the processing circuitry is configured to select an updated superframe mode from the plurality of superframe modes. The processing circuitry is further configured to output, to the plurality of devices, an updated superframe configured in the updated superframe mode.

Dynamic superframe slotting

A switch circuit configured to receive power from either a single power source or dual power source. The circuit includes two power input terminals and two power output terminals. For a single power source, the switch circuit may receive the single power source at either of the two power input terminals. The switch circuit provides power to a load without regard to which of the power input terminals the single power source is connected. The switch circuit shorts the power output terminals for a single power input, which provides power at both power output terminals. For a dual power source system, the switch circuit may isolate the two power output terminals so each power output terminal may operate independently without shorting. In some examples, the switch circuit may be part of a thermostat or similar HVAC system controller.

Thermostat power wire switching circuit

A system of controlling one or more building automation devices. The system may incorporate communicating over a first network with one or more network connected devices. An access point for the first network may be utilized to facilitate communication among the network connected devices. One or more of the network connected devices may be a low power device that has a first mode and a second mode. The low power device may expend less energy in one of the first mode and the second than in the other of the first mode and the second mode. The system may allow network devices connected to the first network to receive details about the low power device while the low power device is operating with the first mode and the second mode.

System for communication with devices on a network to minimize power consumption

In some examples, a system for comfort or security in a building and its premises includes a plurality of 'first' devices configured to wirelessly communicate with a hub device that is a master for controlling the system for comfort or security in the building and premises, wherein the plurality of first devices and the hub device are configured to wirelessly communicate using either one of an IEEE 802.15.4 standard or a Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) 5.0 standard; a plurality of 'second' devices that are battery powered and configured to wirelessly communicate with respective ones of the plurality of first devices, wherein the plurality of second devices and respective ones of the plurality of first devices are configured to communicate using the BTLE 5.0 standard, wherein the hub device and the plurality of second devices are configured to communicate with each other via respective ones of the plurality of first devices.

Bluetooth perimeter extension

A device for detecting a wire configuration connecting a thermostat and HVAC equipment includes fan controller circuitry, AC controller circuitry, switching circuitry, and processing circuitry. The fan controller circuitry is configured to operate a fan unit of the HVAC equipment using a G pin in a first wire configuration and using a K pin in a second wire configuration. The AC controller circuitry is configured to operate an AC unit of the HVAC equipment using a Y pin in the first wire configuration and the K pin in the second wire configuration. The switching circuitry is configured to refrain from electrically coupling the Y pin and the K pin in response to a deactivation signal. The processing circuitry is configured to determine the HVAC equipment is in the first wire configuration in response to determining the AC controller circuitry receives power while outputting the deactivation signal to the switching circuitry.

Thermostat wire detection

A sensor device includes processing circuitry configured to output, at a first bandwidth, first bandwidth data to a hub device using a first wireless connection configured for a first wireless protocol. In response to determining that the sensor device has second bandwidth data to output to the hub device at a second bandwidth, the processing circuitry is configured to output a second wireless connection request to the hub device using the first wireless connection. In response to the hub device outputting information for establishing a second wireless connection with the sensor device, the processing circuitry is configured to establish the second wireless connection for a second wireless protocol different from the first wireless protocol. The processing circuitry is configured to output, at the second bandwidth, the second bandwidth data to the hub device using the second wireless connection. The second bandwidth is greater than the first bandwidth.

Home network using multiple wireless networking protocols

A device includes communication circuitry configured to establish, with an external device, a wireless channel according to a connection protocol and exchange, via the wireless channel and with the external device, network parameters for establishing a BLUETOOTH channel that is different from the wireless channel. The BLUETOOTH channel is established according to a BLUETOOTH protocol different from the connection protocol. The communication circuitry is further configured to establish, with the external device, the BLUETOOTH channel using the network parameters. To establish the BLUETOOTH channel, the communication circuitry is configured to refrain from advertising the network parameters via the BLUETOOTH channel. The communication circuitry is further configured to exchange, via the BLUETOOTH channel and with the external device, data.

Bluetooth using secondary channel

Method to control a communication rate between a thermostat and a cloud based server

A system and approach for a self-calculating test of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning load. The test may be run upon meeting predetermined conditions. Thermostatic control of the load may be disabled when the load test starts. If a call for heat or cool is made at the thermostat, response to the call may be delayed until the load test is completed, and if AC power is lost during the test, the test may finish and allow detection of the phantom AC detection device with a loss of AC power. If a voltage of a storage capacitor falls below a battery boost threshold, the test may be cancelled to allow the phantom circuit charge the storage capacitor. The system and approach may incorporate load test states that include an initialize state, start test state, get baseline state, test measure state, stabilize measurement state, calculation state, and finalize results state.

Power transformation self characterization mode

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

A battery life monitoring approach for a power transformation powered system. 'Signature profiling' and 'power metering' may deal with statistically significant edge cases. Relative to product resources, a battery management module (BMM) may use software services from a &#x201c;phantom module&#x201d;, &#x201c;power broker&#x201d; and other low level board support package (BSP) software, such as A2D, time bases and memory R/W in order to execute routines needed for successful deployment of the product. The memory resources should be volatile and non-volatile memory resources to fulfill the needs of a fully functional power transformation BMM system.

Source management for a power transformation system

Growing community of inventors

Minnetonka, MN, United States of America

Robert D Juntunen