A machine learning apparatus determines an operation condition of a precooling operation or preheating operation of an air conditioner. The machine learning apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a learning unit. The acquisition unit acquires, as state variables, room temperature data at a time of the precooling operation or preheating operation, set temperature data, and outside air temperature data. The learning unit learns the operation condition of the precooling operation or preheating operation based on the state variables, a room temperature after start of the precooling operation or preheating operation, and a set temperature.

The present invention relates to an air purifier (1) comprising a body (2) having an air inlet (I) through which the air in the environment is sucked and a clean air outlet (O) through which the cleaned air is released to the environment, a first CO.sub.2 sensor (10) which is disposed at the air inlet (I) and a second CO.sub.2 sensor (11) which is disposed at the clean air outlet (O), a CO.sub.2 adsorption unit (3) which chemically adsorbs the carbon dioxide in the air by supplying a basic solution, a pump (4) which delivers the ambient air to the CO.sub.2 adsorption unit (3) through the air inlet (I), abase tank (8) which supplies the basic solution to the CO.sub.2 adsorption unit (3), an acid tank (7) wherein the air of which the carbon dioxide is adsorbed is treated with an acidic solution, and an electrodialysis unit (5) which separates the salt components formed after the ambient air is treated with the basic solution and the acidic solution into acid and base.

The present disclosure discloses an air conditioner controlling method and apparatus, as well as an air conditioner having the same. The method includes: determining that an outdoor heat exchanger of the air conditioner runs in an evaporator state; acquiring a state signal of a refrigerant of an indoor refrigerating unit; and adjusting an opening degree of an electronic expansion valve of an outdoor unit according to the state signal of the indoor refrigerating unit. This method may adjust the opening degree of the electronic expansion valve of the outdoor unit according to the state signal of the indoor refrigerating unit when the outdoor heat exchanger of the air conditioner runs in the evaporator state, thereby effectively improving the reliability of control, broadening the reliable operation range of the system, and reasonably distributing the refrigerant between the indoor refrigerating unit and the outdoor unit under a low temperature working condition.

The invention involves the automated testing of HVAC units using an energy management system. The automated HVAC test is performed to understand if one or more HVAC units are operational across one or more locations. If an HVAC unit is not operational, HVAC testing could be performed to understand which component or stage of the HVAC unit is not working as designed. The automated HVAC test is also used to calculate the efficiency of the HVAC unit(s) being tested. The various HVAC tests are performed on all HVAC units as a form of preventative maintenance and diagnostics. These tests can be scheduled on-demand, for a future date and time, or on a recurring schedule (monthly or quarterly). A report is generated for each HVAC test and can be viewed and exported from a cloud-based energy management platform.

An air conditioning system includes a compressor including a motor, a condenser, and an evaporator; a drive including converter and an inverter, the converter and the inverter including power switching devices; a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature in at least one of the converter and the inverter; a controller configured to communicate with the temperature sensor, the controller configured to provide a control signal to the inverter, the controller configured to execute: monitor the temperature; compare the temperature to a threshold; when the temperature exceeds the threshold, executing an operation to reduce a switching frequency of the power switching devices in the inverter.

For monitoring and controlling an HVAC system which comprises one or more fluid transportation systems with a plurality of parallel zones, a plurality of operating variables of the fluid transportation systems are received (S1) from devices of the HVAC system. Temporal courses are determined (S3) for the operating variables. Interdependencies are determined (S4) between the temporal courses of the operating variables. Depending on the interdependencies, the operating variables and their associated devices are grouped (S5) into different sets which each relates to a different section of the HVAC system and includes the related operating variables and associated devices. The sets are used (S6) to control the devices of a particular section of the HVAC system and/or to generate a fault detection message regarding one or more of the devices of the particular section of the HVAC system.

An air-conditioning system includes an outside air conditioning device, an air conditioning device, and a machine learning apparatus, and includes a state variable acquiring unit configured to acquire state variables, a learning unit configured to perform learning by associating the state variables with at least either an operating capacity of the outside air conditioning device or an operating capacity of the air conditioning device, and a reward calculating unit configured to calculate a reward that correlates with a total of energy consumption of the outside air conditioning device and energy consumption of the air conditioning device. The learning unit performs the learning by using the reward calculated in a period determined in accordance with a time duration until the total of the energy consumption changes after at least either the operating capacity of the outside air conditioning device or the operating capacity of the air conditioning device has changed.

An image registration unit of a maintenance assist apparatus registers in cleaning service information where usage status of a cleaning service on an air conditioning machine is set, a filter image obtained by a maintenance person photographing a filter of the air conditioning machine. A registration confirmation unit determines whether or not the filter image has been registered in the cleaning service information, when a completion report which reports completion of the cleaning service is received from the maintenance person, outputs to a maintenance terminal apparatus, a completion confirmation notification which notifies that the completion of the cleaning service has been confirmed, when it is determined that the filter image has been registered, and outputs to the maintenance terminal apparatus, a registration warning notification which prompts registration of the filter image, when it is determined that the filter image has not been registered.

A controller for a building control system includes processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including identifying zones within a building, analyzing data associated with the zones, and generating zone groupings based on the data associated with the zones. Each of the zone groupings define zone groups and specify which of the zones are grouped together to form each of the zone groups. The operations also include identifying a particular zone grouping from zone groupings based on the data associated with zones and using the particular zone grouping to generate control signals to operate equipment of the building control system to provide heating or cooling to the zones.

This disclosure relates to methods, systems, and devices for detecting an operational mode of a building component of an environmental control system. In some instances, the apparatus may include a sensor for outputting a signal related to a measure of power drawn by the building component. The sensor may be a current sensor associated with a power cord of an air conditioning unit. The signal output by the sensor may be received by a signal conditioning circuit for conditioning the signal received from the sensor such as, for example, by amplifying and/or filtering. A comparator may be configured to compare the conditioned signal to a specified threshold associated with an ON condition and/or an OFF condition of the building component. The apparatus may include a wireless interface configured to wirelessly transmit a determination of whether the building component is ON or OFF based on the result determined by the comparator.