Patent ID: 9122285
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: F24F,G05D

Abstract:
1. A virtual thermostat system comprising: a plurality of energy consumption units, each energy consumption unit having an input to accept an energy resource consumed at an associated peak power, an input to accept consumption commands, and an output to supply a controlled temperature medium to an associated zone; a sensor associated with each zone, having an output to supply a temperature measurement responsive to the controlled temperature medium; a virtual thermostat user interface (UI) to accept zone temperature set point inputs from a user, and to present temperature measurements for the plurality of zones; a processor; a non-transitory memory; and, a peak power management application stored as a sequence of software instructions in the memory and executed by the processor, the peak power management application having an interface connected to the virtual thermostat UI for managing each energy consumption unit in response to its associated zone temperature set point, while insuring that a combined peak power of the energy consumption units is less than a maximum peak power threshold as follows: