Patent ID: 8700227
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: F24F,G01K,G01W,G05B

Abstract:
1. A method for zone thermal comfort management comprising: obtaining sensor data of a zone, wherein the sensor data comprise: air temperature, air relative humidity, and air speed of the zone; computing thermal comfort level information based on, at least the air temperature, the air relative humidity, and the air speed of the zone; quantifying the thermal comfort level information in terms of a thermal comfort level index; thresholding the quantified thermal comfort level information into a plurality of thermal comfort level categories, wherein: processing a request for a thermal comfort level; providing at least one of the index values that are included in the comfort ok category, or the cooling and/or heating savings opportunity category that meet the request; determining a new thermal comfort index setpoint based on the at least one of the index values; and adjusting a system setpoint based on the new thermal comfort index setpoint.