Invention Grant
- Patent Title: HVAC control system with cost target optimization
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Application No.: US16403924Application Date: 2019-05-06
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Publication No.: US11009252B2Publication Date: 2021-05-18
- Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Jiaqi Li
- Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
- Applicant Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
- Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: F24F11/63
- IPC: F24F11/63 ; F24F11/52 ; F24F11/47 ; F24F110/10

Abstract:
A building management system includes HVAC equipment operable to affect an indoor air temperature of a building, a system manager configured to obtain a cost function that characterizes a cost of operating the HVAC equipment, obtain a dataset relating to the building, determine a current state of the building by applying the dataset to a neural network, select a temperature bound associated with the current state, augment the cost function to include a penalty term that increases the cost when the indoor air temperature violates the temperature bound, and determine a temperature setpoint for each of a plurality of time steps in the future time period. The temperature setpoints achieve a target value of the cost function over the future time period. The building management system also includes a controller configured to operate the HVAC equipment to drive the indoor air temperature towards the temperature setpoint.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190338977A1 HVAC CONTROL SYSTEM WITH COST TARGET OPTIMIZATION Public/Granted day:2019-11-07
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