Patent ID: 8634962

Claim:
A method of controlling an environmental maintenance system including a plurality of environmental maintenance modules and a plurality of sensors that measure a value of a physical condition of an environment, the method comprising: identifying a sensor S indx whose sensor value is measured to be outside of a range; for each of a plurality of the modules: identifying a change in value of an operation level for the module, using the change in value of the operation level as an input to a transfer function, and obtaining a respective predicted change in the sensor value of the sensor S indx as an output of the transfer function, the respective predicted change in the sensor value corresponding to the identified change in the operation level for the module; selecting at least one module based on the respective predicted change in the sensor value, wherein the respective predicted change in the sensor value of the selected at least one module satisfies a criterion; and changing the operation level of the selected at least one module to effectuate a change of the sensor value of sensor S indx .