A monitoring system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a building includes a monitoring device installed at the building, a monitoring server located remotely from the building, and a review server. The monitoring device measures an aggregate current supplied to components of the HVAC system and transmits current data based on the measured aggregate current. The monitoring server receives the transmitted current data and, based on the received current data, assesses whether failures have occurred in first and second components of the HVAC components. The monitoring server generates a first advisory in response to determining that the failure has occurred in the first component. The review server provides the first advisory to a technician for review and, in response to the technician verifying that the failure has occurred, transmits a first alert.

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Hvac system remote monitoring and diagnosis

A monitoring system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a residence includes a monitoring device installed at the residence and a server located remotely from the residence. The monitoring device measures an aggregate current supplied to a plurality of components of the HVAC system and transmits current data based on the measured aggregate current. The server receives the transmitted current data and, based on the received current, assesses whether a failure has occurred in a first component of the plurality of components of the HVAC system and assesses whether a failure has occurred in a second component of the plurality of components of the HVAC system.

Residential solutions hvac monitoring and diagnosis

A system and method for managing energy consumption of a building system includes a source of actual energy consumption data (430), a source of actual weather data (440), and a database (420) correlating discrete weather data values with expected energy consumption values for at least one component of the building system. A computer accesses the actual weather data, actual energy consumption data (430) and database (420), wherein the computer compares (450) the expected energy consumption values with actual energy consumption data and generates an output (470) based on the comparison. The expected energy consumption values are generated for the discrete weather data values using an energy consumption model that functionally relates discrete weather data values and design information for the buiding system component.

Model-based alarming

Control apparatus for an environmental control system comprises input circuitry receiving environmental information and output circuitry for controlling an HVAC system. Processing circuitry in the controller configures the output circuitry based at least in part on the signals received on the input circuitry. Information about the status of the HVAC system may be transferred to system administrators using a wireless link.

Method and apparatus for energy recovery in an environmental control system

A controller of a thermal management system for a vehicle controls a first switching valve and a second switching valve to set a battery warming-up state in which a heat medium circulates between a battery-temperature adjustment heat exchanger and a heat-medium heating heat exchanger, and the heat medium does not circulate between a coolant-coolant heat exchanger and a heat-medium heating heat exchanger when both a battery and an engine need to be warmed up. In contrast, the controller controls the first switching valve and the second switching valve to set an engine warming-up state in which the heat medium circulates through between the coolant-coolant heat exchanger and the heat-medium heating heat exchanger while the heat medium does not circulate between a battery-temperature adjustment heat exchanger and the heat-medium heating heat exchanger when a temperature of the battery exceeds a target battery warming-up temperature in the battery warming-up state.

Thermal management system for vehicle

A method for controlling a motor vehicle air conditioning system is described. The motor vehicle air conditioning system comprises a refrigeration circuit including a refrigerant compressor, a condenser, an evaporator and a throttle device arranged upstream of the evaporator. The condenser is associated with a ventilating fan and the evaporator is associated with a blower. The compressor capacity, the condenser capacity and the evaporator capacity are directly or indirectly sensed by sensor means and supplied as electrical variables to an electronic control circuit which logically combines these input signals and generates output signals in dependence on at least two of these capacity values and including further parameters. The control circuit acts on electrically controllable acturators for influencing the compressor capacity, the condenser capacity and/or the evaporator capacity.

Method for controlling a motor vehicle air conditioning system

In an air conditioner for a motor vehicle, which, for the purpose of contling the humidity, has in the ir duct suitable devices, controlled by a microcomputer. The microcomputer receives values for outside temperature, inside temperature and inside humidity, measured by sensors. From the values for outside temperature, inside temperature and inside humidity, the microcomputer determines the threshold humidity (l thresh ) as the ratio of the saturated vapor pressure (P S ) inside at the pane and the saturated vapor pressure (P i ) of the inside air. If this difference (Δl) between threshold humidity (l thresh ) and inside humidity (l i ) falls below a stipulated value (x), dehumidification devices are actuated. If the stipulated value is exceeded, humidification devices are actuated.

Air conditioner humidity control system

The invention relates to an air-conditioning system for a motor-driven vehicle, having a refrigerant circuit ( 20 ) with a plurality of heat exchangers ( 4, 24 ) through which a refrigerant can be conducted for an exchange of heat with the air which flows through them, with it being possible for the heat exchangers ( 4, 24 ) to be operated as heaters or as evaporators as a function of the operating state of the air-conditioning system, and at least one third heat exchanger ( 16 ) is provided in the refrigerant circuit ( 20 ), which third heat exchanger ( 16 ) serves for an exchange of heat with a coolant circuit ( 13 ) which is formed separately from the refrigerant circuit ( 20 ). The vehicle can be both a motor vehicle and also a fuel-cell-driven vehicle.

Cooling system for a motor vehicle

Electric heating apparatus for vehicle

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for controlling the output speed of a fluid friction clutch. The fluid friction clutch comprises a work chamber, in which a drive disk rotates, and a reservoir. A valve controls the circulation of a viscous medium between the work chamber and the reservoir. The output rotational speed is thus dependent on the filling ratio of the work chamber. The valve is actuated as a function of at least one control parameter by means of a stepping motor connected with the clutch. The control parameter is preferably the temperature of the cooling medium of an internal combustion engine. The rotational output of the stepping motor is converted to a linear motion to actuate the valve lever by means of a spindle drive.

Karl Dipl.-Ing. Lochmahr

Papers

Method for controlling a motor vehicle air conditioning system

Air conditioner humidity control system

Cooling system for a motor vehicle

Electric heating apparatus for vehicle

Method and apparatus for controlling the output speed of a fluid friction clutch