Patent ID: 7682234

Claim:
A method for correlating airflow delivery devices with air movers having actuators for varying flow rates of air supplied by the air movers, said method comprising: (a) setting the actuators of the air movers to at least one setting; (b) determining flow rates of air supplied through the airflow delivery devices at the at least one setting of the actuators, each airflow delivery device being served by a plurality of air movers discretely located relative to the airflow delivery device; (c) setting the actuator of one of the air movers to another setting; (d) determining flow rates of air supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices at the second setting of the actuator; (e) calculating coefficients that relate the flow rates of air supplied by each of the air movers to the flow rates of air supplied through each of the airflow delivery devices based upon the flow rates determined at a plurality of actuator settings using a microprocessor; and (f) determining a level of influence each of the air movers has over each of the airflow delivery devices based upon a correlation between the air movers and respective airflow delivery devices determined through use of the calculated coefficients.