The present invention provides an intelligent air shield formation device, having a plurality of nozzles are configured to discharge purified air towards ground, detecting a body region of the detected person, generating region information, controlling the plurality of nozzles corresponding to the region information, generating movement information based on a speed of movement of the body region, controlling the shape of the region information to be deformed based on the movement information.

A displacement ventilation system for a room includes a first duct located inside the room and extending between a floor and a ceiling of the room, an air inlet coupled with the first duct for drawing air into the system, and an elongated diffuser extending adjacent the floor for diffusing at least some of the outside air over the floor of the enclosed spaced. The system includes a return air duct extending adjacent the ceiling and being coupled with the first duct for removing return air from the room and advancing the return air toward the first duct, a heat exchanger for transferring thermal energy between the return air and the outside air, and a heat pump for changing a temperature level of the outside air or the return air passing through the heat pump. The system includes sensors located inside the room, and a controller for controlling operation of the system. The controller is in communication with the sensors.

Apparatus for increasing a flow of forced air from a HVAC unit having a blower fan into a heating/cooling zone has a register unit for passing forced air from a duct connected between the HVAC unit and the register unit. A fan at the register unit operates to increase the forced air flow rate through the register. A control signal is emitted from a wireless transmitter in response to remotely detected operation of the HVAC blower fan. The control signal is transmitted over a radio link between the HVAC unit and a receiver at the register unit and is used to control operation of the register fan.

An intelligent air management system comprises an HVAC unit, a smart duct comprising an electromechanically actuated damper, a power supply connected to the smart duct, a controller communicatively connected to the smart duct and at least one room sensor positioned in a room, and a vent fluidly connected to the smart duct and positioned in the room, wherein the controller is configured to open and close the electromechanically actuated damper in response to measurements from the at least one room sensor. A method of controlling room temperature in a multi-room structure is also described.

Methods and systems for controlling a building. An illustrative method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building, using the received sensor data to control one or more building management components to control one or more environmental conditions within the building, normalizing the sensor data and storing the normalized sensor data, comparing the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated the building, and providing a recommended action to improve at least one of the one or more identified anomalies of the building.

A method for managing air quality may include, at one or more processors, receiving sensor data comprising a plurality of air quality parameters for an environment, wherein the sensor data is generated by one or more environment quality monitoring devices located in the environment, predicting an adverse air quality event based on the sensor data, and automatically controlling one or more devices to mitigate the adverse air quality event. An environment quality monitoring device may include a housing, a plurality of sensors in the housing and configured to generate sensor data comprising a plurality of environment quality parameters, a network communication device configured to communicate the sensor data over a network, and an alert configured to indicate an environment quality score of the ambient environment, where the environment quality score is based on at least a portion of the sensor data.

A pressure pulsation trap is provided. The pressure pulsation trap includes a channel extending from an inlet to an outlet, and a plurality of branches extending from the channel, each of the branches having different lengths than one another. The different lengths are configured such that the branches attenuate noise and/or vibration over a range of operating frequencies.

Methods and systems for controlling a building. An illustrative method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building, using the received sensor data to control one or more building management components to control one or more environmental conditions within the building, normalizing the sensor data and storing the normalized sensor data, comparing the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated the building, and providing a recommended action to improve at least one of the one or more identified anomalies of the building.

An appliance including a voice recognition device, the voice recognition device including a sound output device and a voice input device, wherein the sound output device is configured to output sound toward the inside of the panel, and the voice input device is configured to collect voice transmitted from the outside of the panel toward the panel.

Logical boundaries enclosing a physical area are defined. A segment of the logical boundaries is defined as a directional gate, wherein traversing the gate into the physical area is defined as an ingress and traversing the gate out of the physical area is defined as an egress. The directional gate is monitored, and ingresses and egresses are detected. An occupancy count of the physical area is maintained, based on monitoring the gate and detecting ingresses and egresses. One or more conditions are tracked in addition to the occupancy count. Artificial intelligence (AI) processing is applied to the maintained occupancy count and the additional tracked condition(s), in real-time as the monitoring, maintaining and tracking are occurring. One or more responsive actions are automatically taken as a result of applying the AI processing to the maintained occupancy count and the additional tracked condition(s).