Google Inc.

Samuel W Kortz

Yoky Matsuoka

Anthony Michael Fadell

Matthew Lee Rogers

David Hendler Sloo

Scott A McGaraghan

Adam Duckworth Mittleman

John Benjamin Filson

Jason Evans Goulden

William Raeming Dong

Andrew William Goldenson

Adam Scott Kilgore

Minjung Kim

Amber Luttmann Volmering

Mi Zhou

Benjamin Zachary Niewood

Rafat E Mehdi

Rochus Emmanuel Jacob

Mark Rajan Malhotra

Jesse William Boettcher

Rochus Emanuel Jacob

Evan Jarman Fisher

Christopher Anthony Boross

Prashant Papiahgari Reddy

Igor Karp

Mark Andrew McBride

Todd Hester

James P Lyons

Lev Stesin

Leon Tan

Andrew Urman

Carles Pi-Sunyer

David Horton

Alexander Dubman

Gregory J Hu

Amanda Surya

Aubrey Thelen

Michael Soucie

Tim Enwall

Scott A Mcgaraghan

Andrew Goldenson

Adam Mittleman

William Dong

Apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for managing demand-response programs and events. The systems disclosed include an energy management system in operation with an intelligent, network-connected thermostat located at a structure. The thermostat controls an HVAC system to cool the structure using a demand response event implementation profile over the demand response event period. The thermostat can also receive a requested change to the setpoint temperatures defined by the demand response event implementation profile and access a determination of an impact on energy shifting that would result if the requested change is incorporated into the demand response event implementation profile. This determination can be communicated to the energy consumer.

Systems, apparatus and methods for managing demand-response programs and events

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A method includes generating a utility portal interface in response to a request from a utility computer system that receives parameters that specify a demand response event; providing a display of groups of energy-consuming locations that are available to be selected to participate in the demand response event; providing a display of an energy demand profile for the utility during the demand response event; receiving a selection of a subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations to participate in the demand response event; causing the display of the energy demand profile for the utility during the demand response event to be dynamically updated as the subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations are selected or deselected by the utility computer system to participate; and sending transmissions to thermostats associated with the subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations to execute the demand response event.

Utility portals for managing demand-response events

Systems and Methods disclosed herein relate to providing a message to an application programming interface (API). The message includes a request for data from a data model, a submission of data to the data model, or both; and a host selection between: a representational state transfer (REST) host and a subscription-based application programming interface (API) host, wherein the REST host receives REST-based messages and the subscription-based API host receives messages in accordance with a standard of the subscription-based API host; wherein the request for data, the submission of data, or both are configured to create, delete, modify, or any combination thereof data related to a smart-device environment structure, a thermostat, a hazard detector, or any combination thereof stored in a data model accessible by the API.

Methods and apparatus for using smart environment devices via application program interfaces

According to one embodiment, a hazard detector may include a back plate and a front casing coupled to the back plate to define a housing having an interior region and an opening through which air flows into the interior region. A circuit board may be coupled to the back plate and have a plurality of components mounted thereon. A smoke chamber may be mid-mounted on the circuit board, mid-mounting being characterized in the smoke chamber extending through a hole formed in the circuit board such that a top surface of the smoke chamber is positioned above a top surface of the circuit board and a bottom surface of the smoke chamber is positioned below a bottom surface of the circuit board, whereby an interior region of the smoke chamber is accessible to smoke from both the top and bottom surfaces of the circuit board.

Detector unit and sensing chamber therefor

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Samuel W Kortz