Abstract:
A system and method for automatically providing a fresh air exchange to a cargo unit is disclosed. The system includes a single gas sensor, preferably a carbon dioxide sensor, for providing an input to a controller which derives the carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the unit. The controller then compares such derived values to preselected levels and selectively opens or closes air flow into the cargo unit in order to bring and maintain the desired oxygen and carbon dioxide levels within the unit.
Abstract:
Air quality within a building is controlled by maintaining a count of people in the building and by ventilating the building with an amount of air dependent on the count. The count may be determined in accordance with an access control system and/or entry and exit sensors, such as infrared sensors.
Abstract:
An HVAC system has two variable-air-volume (VAV) systems, a first VAV system for moving fresh air and a second VAV system for moving recycled air. Both the fresh air and recycled air are cooled and dehumidified by a single heat-exchanging coil. The fresh and recycled air streams travel independently in separate ducts until the air streams reach a remotely located mixing box where the air streams mix and ventilate into a room or zone of a building. The HVAC system uses carbon dioxide and temperature sensors in order to regulate the flow of fresh and recycled air to various mixing boxes throughout the building.
Abstract:
A system and method for passive hypoxic training provides a person with a low oxygen (hypoxic) environment. Oxygen sensors automatically monitor and control oxygen levels to maintain the altitude desired. CO2 levels are monitored and CO2 is eliminated so that the air a person breathes is substantially clean and fresh. Exposure to a high altitude environment produces physiological changes in a person's body, which becomes more efficient at absorbing and transporting oxygen. Using the present method and system, athletes obtain the benefits of sleeping at a simulated altitude in the user's own home for six to twelve hours, rather than traditional altitude therapies in which athletes spend two to three weeks at high altitude before an athletic competition to obtain similar benefits. This system allows for nulllive high train lownull altitude training that has been shown in controlled studies to provide superior benefits to nulllive high train highnull training.
Abstract:
DESCRIBED IS A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AND DETERMINING CHANGES IN THE CO2 CONTENT IN A GAS-EXCHANGE MEASURING CHAMBER, WHICH CONTAINS PLANTS, LIVING PLANT PARTS OR ORGANISMS, AIR CONDITIONED BY PELTIER ELEMENTS, AND INTO WHICH MEASURING GAS CAB BE PUMPED, VIA A GAS LINE. A GAS OUTLET CONTAINS A PELTIER-COOLED DEHUMIDIFIER AND A GAS ANALYZER, WHEREIN A MEASURED VALUE CAN BE DETERMINED AS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CO2 CONTENT OF THE MEASURING GAS AND THE CO2 CONTENT OF A SUPPLIED STANDARD GAS. THE DEVICE IS SO CHARACTERIZED THAT CO2 GAS CAB BE SUPPLIED, VIA A REGULATING VALVE AND A FLOW COUNTER, TO THE GAS-EXCHANGE MEASURING CHAMBER. ALSO PROVIDED IS A BYPASS TO THE GASEXCHANGE MEASURING CHAMBER, WHEREIN A FLOW COUNTER AND MEANS FOR CHANGING THE FLOW AND FOR BINDING THE CO2 GAS ARE ARRANGED. THE REGULATING VALVE AND THE DEVICES WHICH REGULATE THE FLOW ARE EACH PROVIDED WITH A REGULATING SYSTEM, WHEREIN THE CONTROL MAGNITUDE OF EACH REGULATOR CONSTITUTES THE MEASURED VALUE OF THE GAS ANALYZER.
Abstract:
An IAQ sensor module includes: a sensor configured to measure an amount of an item in air, the item being one of particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and carbon dioxide; a minimum module configured to selectively store the amount of the item as a minimum value of the amount when a mitigation device has been on for at least a predetermined period, the mitigation device being configured to decrease the amount of the item in the air when on; a storing module configured to selectively store the minimum value as an initial minimum value; an offset module configured to determine a drift offset for the sensor based on a difference between the minimum value and the initial minimum value; and an adjustment module configured to determine an adjusted amount of the item in the air at the IAQ sensor module based on the amount and the drift offset.
Abstract:
A system, method and apparatus for sensor-based air quality metrics for ventilation performance and infection risk. Virus pathogens can be transmitted through the air, as they attach to airborne droplets or particles (bio-aerosols). A ventilation performance and infection risk can be determined using dynamic air exchange rates based on measured changes in air contaminant levels.
Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided and include a variable frequency drive configured to drive a fan motor of an HVAC system to ventilate an indoor space, the HVAC system having a cooling assembly that includes at least one of an economizer and a compressor. A controller is configured to communicate with the variable frequency drive, receive at least one signal from an occupancy sensing device, determine whether the indoor space is less than fully occupied based on the at least one signal, and control the variable frequency drive to reduce a speed of the fan motor in response to determining that the indoor space is less than fully occupied.
Abstract:
A ventilation control apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus comprises a storage, a ventilation apparatus, and a processor. The storage stores a plurality of first historical sensing data corresponding to a plurality of first time intervals and an activation condition. The apparatus calculates a plurality of deviation values corresponding to the first time intervals based on the first historical sensing data. The apparatus determines an adjustment parameter based on the deviation values. The apparatus updates the activation condition based on the adjustment parameter. The apparatus transmits a first control signal corresponding to the adjustment parameter to the ventilation apparatus to instruct the ventilation apparatus to operate based on the activation condition.
Abstract:
A method of monitoring building compliance with healthy building guidelines includes obtaining current parameter values for a plurality of different parameters from a plurality of sensors disposed within a plurality of different zones of a building. For each of the parameters, the current parameter value received from each of the plurality of different zones is compared with a corresponding healthy building range for that parameter as specified by the healthy building guidelines. A healthy building dashboard is displayed that includes a summary that shows, for each of the plurality of different parameters, how many zones of the plurality of different zones of the building are within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter and/or how many zones of the plurality of different zones are not within the corresponding healthy building range for that parameter.