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Thermostat scheduling using user devices and machine learning

A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control device configured to collect event data from the one or more devices and to populate time entries in an occupancy history log with the event data. The event data includes a timestamp indicating a time when an event occurred, a set point temperature value for the HVAC system, and an occupancy status indicating whether a space is occupied. The device is further configured to identify blank time entries in the occupancy history log and to populate the blank time entries by forward filling the occupancy history log using event data from another time entry in the occupancy history log. The device is further configured to output the populated occupancy history log.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING VARIABLE REFRIGERANT FLOW SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS

An oil management controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. The controller includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to analyze operating data for the HVAC equipment using a machine learning model to predict a variable state or condition of oil used by the HVAC equipment. The processing circuit is configured to identify an oil deficiency based on the variable state or condition of the oil. The processing circuit is configured to automatically initiate a corrective action responsive to identifying the oil deficiency.

Building cooling systems with energy optimization and model predictive control

A building cooling system includes one or more cooling devices operable to affect an indoor air temperature of a building and a system management circuit. The system management circuit is configured to obtain an objective function that includes a power consumption term and a comfort term, perform an optimization of the objective function over a time horizon to determine values of the cooling capacity of the cooling devices where each value of the cooling capacity corresponds to a time step of the time horizon, and control the cooling devices based on the values of the cooling capacity of the cooling devices. The comfort term of the objective function a difference between a prediction of the indoor air temperature of the building and a temperature setpoint for the building, while the power consumption term is a function of the power consumption of the one or more cooling devices.

HVAC SYSTEM FOR REDUCING INTRA-SPACE VARIATION OF CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
20230160596 · 2023-05-25 ·

An HVAC system includes a plurality of heat transfer devices operable to transfer heat into or out of the plurality zones. The HVAC system includes a controller configured to obtain a heat map indicating zone temperatures, use a thermal model of the building space to predict the zone temperatures as a function of control decisions indicating an amount of heat to transfer into or out of each of the plurality of zones by the plurality of heat transfer devices, determine the amount of heat to transfer into or out of each of the plurality of zones subject to a constraint or penalty based on differences between the zone temperatures predicted to result from the control decisions, and operate the heat transfer devices to transfer the amount of heat into or out of each of the plurality of zones in accordance with the control decisions.

Actuators with condition tracking

An actuator may include a drive motor, an actuatable output, and a sensor for sensing a first sensed parameter in or around the actuator. The first sensed parameter may have a first sensed parameter value that can change with time. The actuator may also include electronics that may identify a first identified value representative of the first sensed parameter value and increment a first counter value when the first identified value falls within a first range of values, and increment a second counter value when the first identified value falls within a second range of values.

Controller and method for reducing standby time when controlling the number of chillers to be operated

A control device for a refrigerator system for cooling a load by using a plurality of refrigerators, said control device comprising a unit to control the number of operating units that changes the number of operating refrigerators according to the load rate, and a cold water temperature acquisition unit that acquires, via a temperature sensor, the temperature of cold water affected by the refrigerators. After a prescribed standby time from when the number of operating refrigerators was changed has elapsed, the unit to control the number of operating units changes the number of operating units and reduces the prescribed standby time when at least one of the cold-water temperature and the rate of change in the cold-water temperature satisfies a prescribed condition.

SYSTEM AND METHODS UTILIZING FLUID COOLERS AND CHILLERS TO PERFORM IN-SERIES HEAT REJECTION AND TRIM COOLING
20230108538 · 2023-04-06 · ·

The cooling systems and methods of the present disclosure involve modular fluid coolers and chillers configured for optimal power and water use based on environmental conditions and client requirements. The fluid coolers include wet media, a first fluid circuit for distributing fluid across wet media, an air to fluid heat exchanger, and an air to refrigerant heat exchanger. The chillers, which are fluidly coupled to the fluid coolers via pipe cages, include a second fluid circuit in fluid communication with the air to fluid heat exchanger and a refrigerant circuit in thermal communication with the second fluid circuit and in fluid communication with the air to refrigerant heat exchanger. Pipe cages are coupled together to allow for expansion of the cooling system when additional cooling capacity is needed. The fluid coolers and chillers are configured to selectively operate in wet or dry free cooling mode, partial free cooling mode, or mechanical cooling mode.

COMPRESSOR WALL
20220316719 · 2022-10-06 ·

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array of modularized circuits that work individually but collectively to provide a system that can manage an indoor environment. The system is designed in order to match the delivered load more closely to the required load then has been done in the past. The system is also designed in order to enhance and ease of serviceability of the individual circuits when needed.

Method and device of combining outdoor units and rotating operation of outdoor units and MSAC system

The present disclosure relates to a method and device of combining outdoor units and rotating operation of outdoor units, and MSAC system, and relates to the field of unit technology. The method includes: determining a plurality of combination manners of the outdoor units, according to a capacity of an indoor unit currently turned on and a capacity of each of the outdoor units; sequencing the plurality of combination manners in priority, according to priority strategies; and sequentially rotating the outdoor units to operate, based on the sequenced combination manners.

AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM, AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

The disclosure relates to an air conditioning system comprising water heat source type heat source devices, and provides an air conditioning control device, an air conditioning system, and an air conditioning system control method which distributes consumed energy of heat source devices to each user. An air conditioning control device is provided. The air conditioning control device includes a first communication unit which communicates with a plurality of outdoor units and a plurality of indoor units connected to the plurality of outdoor units, a second communication unit which communicates with a plurality of heat source devices connected to the plurality of outdoor units, and a control unit configured to determine a reference energy and a consumption energy of the plurality of heat source devices, distribute, in a case in which the consumed energy of the plurality of heat source device exceeds the reference energy, an excess amount of energy to the plurality of indoor units, and set an energy consumption of each of the plurality of indoor units based on the distributed excess energy amount, wherein each of the plurality of heat source devices is a water heat source type of heat source device.