Patent ID: 9020647
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: F24F

Abstract:
1. A system for calibrating a set-point for climate control, comprising: a sensor network having a plurality of sensors wherein each occupant in a space is associated with a sensor and each sensor is configured to report a comfort level for the associated occupant; a database including an industry comfort standard for specifying environmental conditions that are acceptable to a majority of occupants in a space wherein the industry comfort standard defines a baseline comfort level, the database configured to receive reports from the sensors associated with each occupant on a preferred occupant comfort level for each occupant to generate an individual profile for each occupant including climate comfort information on the difference between the preferred occupant comfort level and the baseline comfort level wherein the preferred occupant comfort level includes a learned comfort zone based on summer and winter profiles of the industry standard; and a controller configured to receive information from the individual profiles for each occupant to generate a set-point based upon an optimization program configured to balance competing goals to generate the set-point for controlling climate control equipment in accordance with the set-point.