Patent ID: 9645014
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: F24F,G01K

Claim:
1. A sensor surrogate for causing a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system to maintain a desired room temperature, wherein the sensor surrogate comprises: a temperature sensor for determining an actual room temperature; and a logic embodied on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium configured to perform the steps of: if the desired room temperature is above a pre-programmed HVAC system temperature, calculating a current low temperature that is lower than the pre-programmed HVAC system temperature and providing the HVAC system with a first signal that represents the calculated current low temperature thereby causing the HVAC system to function as if the actual room temperature were below the pre-programmed HVAC system temperature; and if the desired room temperature is below the pre-programmed HVAC system temperature, calculating a current high temperature that is above the pre-programmed HVAC system temperature and providing the HVAC system with a second signal that represents the calculated current high temperature thereby causing the HVAC system to function as if the actual room temperature were above the pre-programmed HVAC system temperature.