公开(公告)号：US11385605B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16680881

申请日：2019-11-12

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Michael J. Wenzel ,  Robert D. Turney ,  Jiaqi Li ,  Matthew J. Ellis ,  Mohammad N. Elbsat

IPC: G05B13/04 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L49/90 ,  H04L43/10 ,  H04L43/0811 ,  H04L41/0826

Abstract: A controller for operating building equipment of a building including processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining a first setpoint trajectory from a cloud computation system. The first setpoint trajectory includes setpoints for the building equipment or for a space of the building. The setpoints correspond to time steps of an optimization period. The operations include determining whether a connection between the controller and the cloud computation system is active or inactive at a time step of the optimization period and determining an active setpoint for the time step of the optimization period using either the first or second setpoint trajectory based on whether the connection between the controller and the cloud computation system is active or inactive at the time step. The operations include operating the building equipment based on the active setpoint.

公开(公告)号：US11275355B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-15

申请号：US16543320

申请日：2019-08-16

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Michael J. Wenzel ,  Kirk H. Drees

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G06Q10/04 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q50/06 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G05B13/04

Abstract: An optimization system for a central plant includes a processing circuit configured to receive load prediction data indicating building energy loads and utility rate data indicating a price of one or more resources consumed by equipment of the central plant to serve the building energy loads. The optimization system includes a high level optimization module configured to generate an objective function that expresses a total monetary cost of operating the central plant over an optimization period as a function of the utility rate data and an amount of the one or more resources consumed by the central plant equipment. The optimization system includes a demand charge module configured to modify the objective function to account for a demand charge indicating a cost associated with maximum power consumption during a demand charge period. The high level optimization module is configured to optimize the objective function over the demand charge period.

公开(公告)号：US11274842B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-15

申请号：US16927063

申请日：2020-07-13

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Timothy C. Gamroth ,  Michael J. Wenzel ,  Mohammad N. ElBsat ,  David S. Eidson ,  James Burke ,  Kirk H. Drees ,  Thomas M. Seneczko

IPC: F24F11/00 ,  F24F8/10 ,  F24F11/64 ,  F24F11/46 ,  F24F11/72 ,  F24F3/14 ,  G16H40/20 ,  G16H50/30 ,  G05B19/042 ,  F24F11/39 ,  F24F11/61 ,  G05B13/04 ,  F24F120/10 ,  F24F140/60 ,  F24F120/20 ,  F24F110/65 ,  F24F8/22 ,  F24F110/64 ,  F24F110/70 ,  F24F110/74

Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for filtering a fluid within a building is shown. The system includes one or more sensors configured to measure one or more characteristics of a first fluid within an air duct of the BMS and measure one or more characteristics of a second fluid after the second fluid has been filtered. The system further includes a pollutant management system configured to receive data from the one or more sensors and control a filtration process. The filtration process selects a filter of a plurality of filters based on a level of the one or more characteristics of the first fluid and the one or more characteristics of the second fluid.

公开(公告)号：US11243503B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-08

申请号：US16040698

申请日：2018-07-20

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Andrew J. Przybylski ,  Michael J. Wenzel ,  Matthew J. Ellis

IPC: G05B13/04 ,  F24F11/49 ,  G05B13/02 ,  G06F3/0484

Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment operable to affect a variable state or condition of a building and a control system configured to receive a user input indicating a model form. The model form includes a plurality of matrices having a plurality of elements defined in terms of a plurality of parameters. The control system is configured to parse the model form to generate a sequence of machine-executable steps for determining a value of each of the plurality of elements based on a set of potential parameter values, identify a system model by executing the sequence of machine-executable steps to generate a set of parameter values for the plurality of parameters, generate a graphical user interface that illustrates a fit between predictions of the identified system model and behavior of the variable state or condition of the building, and control the building equipment using the identified system model.

公开(公告)号：US11238547B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16518314

申请日：2019-07-22

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Mohammad N. Elbsat ,  Michael J. Wenzel

IPC: G05B13/02 ,  G06Q50/06 ,  G06Q30/02

Abstract: A controller is configured to obtain a cost function defining a cost of operating building equipment over a time period. The cost function includes a revenue term defining revenue to be obtained by operating the equipment to participate in an incentive program over the time period. The controller is configured to modify the cost function to account for an initial purchase cost of a new asset to be added to the equipment and an effect of the new asset on the cost of operating the equipment. The initial purchase cost of the new asset and the effect of the new asset on the cost of operating the equipment are functions of asset size variables. The controller is also configured to perform an optimization of the modified cost function to determine values for energy load setpoints, the asset size variables, and participation in the incentive program over the time period.

公开(公告)号：US11210617B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US15247879

申请日：2016-08-25

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Kirk H. Drees ,  Michael J. Wenzel ,  Robert D. Turney

IPC: G06Q10/06 ,  H02J3/14 ,  H02J3/32 ,  H02J15/00 ,  G05B13/02 ,  G05F1/66 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q50/06 ,  G06Q10/04 ,  G06Q50/16

Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment configured to consume electrical energy and generate thermal energy, thermal energy storage configured to store at least a portion of the thermal energy generated by the building equipment and to discharge the stored thermal energy, electrical energy storage configured to store electrical energy purchased from a utility and to discharge the stored electrical energy, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, for each time step within a time horizon, an optimal amount of electrical energy stored or discharged by the electrical energy storage by optimizing a value function.

公开(公告)号：US11182714B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-23

申请号：US16294475

申请日：2019-03-06

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Michael J. Wenzel ,  Mohammad N. Elbsat

IPC: G05D3/12 ,  G05D5/00 ,  G05D9/00 ,  G05D11/00 ,  G05D17/00 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  H02J3/14 ,  H04L12/24 ,  G05B17/02 ,  H02J3/32 ,  G06Q50/06 ,  H02J3/38 ,  H02J3/00

Abstract: A method for generating an optimal nominated capacity value for participation in a capacity market program (CMP) includes generating, by a processing circuit, an objective function comprising a nominated capacity term, wherein the nominated capacity term indicates a nominated capacity value, wherein the nominated capacity value is a curtailment value that a facility is on standby to reduce its load by in response to receiving a dispatch from a utility. The method includes optimizing, by the processing circuit, the objective function to determine the optimal nominated capacity value for a program operating period and transmitting, by the processing circuit, the optimal nominated capacity value to one or more systems associated with the CMP to participate in the CMP.

公开(公告)号：US11164126B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16223746

申请日：2018-12-18

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Mohammad N. Elbsat ,  Michael J. Wenzel

IPC: G06Q50/06 ,  G06Q10/04 ,  G06Q10/06

Abstract: A building energy system includes equipment operable to consume, store, or generate one or more resources subject to a block-and-index rate structure. The building energy system includes a controller configured to obtain a cost function that represents a block of the resource(s) from the utility provider as being sourced from a first supplier at a fixed rate and a remainder of the resource(s) from the utility provider as being sourced from a second supplier at a variable rate. The controller is configured to optimize the cost function to generate values for one or more decision variables that indicate an amount of resource(s) to purchase, store, generate, or consume at each of a plurality of time steps, and control the equipment to achieve the values of the one or more decision variables at each of the time steps.

公开(公告)号：US11068821B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-20

申请号：US16294490

申请日：2019-03-06

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Michael J. Wenzel ,  Mohammad N. Elbsat

IPC: G05B17/02 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  H02J3/14 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H02J3/32 ,  G06Q50/06 ,  H02J3/38 ,  H02J3/00

Abstract: An energy optimization system for participating in a capacity market program (CMP) includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, that, when executed on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a nominated capacity value, generate an objective function and one or more CMP constraints, wherein the one or more CMP constraints cause an optimization of the objective function with the CMP constraints to generate a resource allocation that reduces the load of the facility by the nominated capacity value in response to receiving the dispatch from the utility, receive the dispatch from the utility, optimize the objective function based on the nominated capacity value, the dispatch, and the one or more CMP constraints to determine the resource allocation, and control one or more pieces of building equipment based on the determined resource allocation.

公开(公告)号：US20210158975A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-27

申请号：US16695519

申请日：2019-11-26

Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company

Inventor： Robert D. Turney ,  Serdar Suindykov ,  Mohammad N. ELBSAT ,  Michael J. Wenzel

IPC: G16Y20/10 ,  G16Y40/20 ,  G16Y40/35 ,  G16Y10/80

Abstract: A smart edge controller for building equipment that operates to affect a variable state or condition within a building. The controller includes processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining sensor data indicating environmental conditions of the building and include determining an amount of available processing resources at the smart edge controller or at the building equipment. The operations include automatically scaling a level of complexity of an optimization of a cost function based on the available processing resources and include performing the optimization of the cost function at the automatically scaled level of complexity to generate a first setpoint trajectory. The first setpoint trajectory includes operating setpoints for the building equipment at time steps within an optimization period. The operations include operating the building equipment based on the first setpoint trajectory.