Patent ID: 11960261
Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  F  Y | IPC F  G

Claim 15:
16. A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment operable to affect an environmental condition of a building, the controller comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
obtaining one or more predictive models configured to predict values of a carbon emissions control objective and another control objective as a function of control decision variables for the HVAC equipment, the carbon emissions control objective comprising an amount of carbon emissions predicted to result from operating the HVAC equipment in accordance with the control decision variables, the other control objective comprising an infection risk predicted to result from operating the HVAC equipment in accordance with the control decision variables;
executing an optimization process using the one or more predictive models to produce multiple sets of optimization results corresponding to different values of the control decision variables, the carbon emissions control objective, and the other control objective;
selecting two or more of the sets of optimization results based on the values of the carbon emissions control objective and the other control objective;
providing a user interface comprising two or more selectable control plan options corresponding to the selected two or more sets of the optimization results and comprising a predicted energy cost for each of the multiple selectable control plan options; and
operating the HVAC equipment to affect the environmental condition of the building in accordance with the values of the control decision variables corresponding to a set of the optimization results corresponding to a control plan selected via the user interface.