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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2013
Applicant:
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Inventor:
William R. Blum, Huntington Station, NY (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell International Inc, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 23/19 (2006.01); G01S 19/51 (2010.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); F24F 11/56 (2018.01); F24F 11/58 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 23/1917 (2013.01); G01S 19/51 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); F24F 11/56 (2018.01); F24F 11/58 (2018.01); G05B 2219/23051 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2642 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus a GPS device that tracks a current location of a user relative to a home of the user and a cloud application that tracks the current location of the user via the GPS device, the cloud application estimates a time period required for the user to travel from the current location to the home and upon detecting that the time is less than a threshold value, automatically sends an activating signal to an HVAC unit in the home of the user to activate the unit.