Patent Document ID: 20170090440
Application ID: 14868778
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of scheduling on/off control of a piece of one or more pieces of equipment of a system comprising: receiving at a processing device, a selection of an objective from among of a plurality of objectives achieved or impacted by turning on or off one or more pieces of equipment; the system objective represented by a corresponding objective function; receiving, at the processing device, an input margin setting for the objective representing an allowable deviation margin by which an objective may worsen during an iteration; providing a current solution to the corresponding objective function; iteratively evaluating a different objective and solving a corresponding objective function with respect to the current solution to optimize the current solution with respect to multiple objectives, and at each iteration, changing the margin setting value for every other objective not being evaluated in the current iteration to enforce a range by which said every other objective can be worsened at the current iteration; terminating the iterations to obtain a final solution comprising a schedule of times for on/off control of said one or more pieces of equipment, the schedule being optimal with respect to the multiple objectives; generating signals based on the schedule of on/off times for controlling said one or more pieces of equipment; and turning on or off said one or more pieces of equipment using said signals.