Patent ID: 8355828

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium to determine minimized power consumption settings for a plurality of resource actuators configured to vary an environment condition at a location of at least one entity, comprising: computer-readable instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium executed by a computer to: develop a first model that relates first dependant variables with second dependent variables; develop a second model that relates the first dependant variables with third dependent variables; formulate a constraint optimization problem having an objective function and at least one constraint using the first model and the second model, wherein the objective function computes at least a proportional quantity of a total power consumption level of the plurality of resource actuators and wherein the at least one constraint comprises a setpoint environmental condition at a location of the at least entity; and solve the constraint optimization problem, wherein the solution provides minimized power consumption values for the plurality of resource actuator settings.