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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Greene, San Bruno, CA (US);
Scott McGaraghan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jonathan Crimins, Los Altos, CA (US);
Scott Ruffner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Allen Minich, Mountain View, CA (US);
Todd Hester, London, GB;
Amanda Sahl, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Praveen Subramani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A thermostat my include a stored setpoint schedule, temperature sensors providing temperature sensor measurements; and a processing system configured to control an HVAC system based at least in part on the setpoint temperature and the temperature sensor measurements. The processing system may be configured to control the HVAC system by receiving an indication of a first time interval, where energy is available to the HVAC system at a first rate during the first time interval, energy is available to the HVAC system at a second rate during a second time interval that is outside of the first time interval, and the first rate is higher than the second rate; identifying a first one or more setpoints in the plurality of setpoints of the stored setpoint schedule that occur in the first time interval; and decreasing a temperature component of at least one of the first one or more setpoints.