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 13:
14. A controller for a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system fora 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 sustainability control objective and another control objective as a function of control decision variables for the HVAC equipment, the sustainability 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 indication of infection risk that results from a predicted concentration of airborne infectious quanta, the indication of infection risk predicted by an infectious quanta model as a function of the control decision variables;
executing a Pareto optimization process using the one or more predictive models to produce one or more sets of Pareto optimal values of the control decision variables, the sustainability control objective, and the other control objective;
providing a user interface comprising a selectable control plan option, the user interface comprising: (i) a set of the Pareto optimal values of the control decision variables corresponding to the control plan option and (ii) a set of the Pareto optimal values of the sustainability control objective and the other control objective predicted to result from the set of the Pareto optimal values of the control decision variables corresponding to the control plan option; and
operating the HVAC equipment to affect the environmental condition of the building in accordance with the set of the Pareto optimal values of the control decision variables corresponding to the control plan option selected via the user interface.