Comfort control system incorporating weather forecast data and a method for operating such a system
US6098893A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 22, 1998 |
| Grant date | Aug 8, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 22, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF24F2130/10
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
In a comfort controls system for multiple buildings (whether residential, commercial or industrial), a weather forecast unit sends weather forecast data over the Internet to a building management provider which handles building management services for a number of clients, each having a number of buildings and properties. At the provider's reception station, data on the external-building characteristics of all the buildings are compiled with the received data and then fed to the appropriate building management controls system.
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