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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2018
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Michael J. Ajax, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Joseph R. Ribbich, Waukesha, WI (US);
Nicholas S. Van Derven, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A controller for controlling a temperature of a building space includes an occupancy sensor configured to measure an occupancy signal indicating whether one or more occupants are within the building space and a processing circuit configured to receive the occupancy signal from the occupancy sensor. The processing circuit is configured to determine whether the number of occupants within the building space has increased by a predefined amount based on the received occupancy signal, decrease a value of a temperature setpoint for the building space from a first value to a second value in response to a determination that the number of occupants within the building space has increased by the predefined amount based on the received occupancy signal, and reduce the temperature of the building space by controlling one or more pieces of building equipment associated with the building space.