Building system control utilizing building occupancy

Active Publication Date: 2019-08-13
IVANI
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[0018]This improved effectiveness allows for machine systems which can operate in

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A problem with home and office automation and integration of IoT devices into living spaces, however, is that they require a human/machine “interface” to allow the human and machine to communicate.
While the average human spends almost one-third of their time on their smartphone (as much as they spend sleeping in many cases), it is not really an ideal device to use to control their home or to control systems within a structure.
It is also not ideal to use any device as a fiducial element to represent the human user to the system.
However, because humans have not been able to effectively interface directly with machines, there has been a need in the industry to have some form of interface between the human user and the IoT devices that make up home automation systems and to identify humans using a fiducial element.
One glaring problem with these systems, however, is that the interaction and translation is only one-way with the voice control system receiving instructions and sending machine-formatted commands to the IoT devices and speaking to a human user in the form of a response only.
Thus, while voice response systems and other human/machine communication systems that are not carried on the person provide for an alternative communication method, they are effectively redundant to a fiducial element communication system which is still required for effective machine initiated communication.
Thus, the human/machine communication becomes limited by requiring the machine to initiate communication with a human by initiating communication to the fiducial element acting as a “proxy” for the human.
This creates a major problem as the system cannot act based on the presence of humans, it can only react based on the presence of human proxies and that has severely

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[0041]The following detailed description and disclosure illustrates by way of example and not by way of limitation. This description will clearly enable one skilled in the art to make and use the disclosed systems and methods, and describes several embodiments, adaptations, variations, alternatives and uses of the disclosed systems and methods. As various changes could be made in the above constructions without departing from the scope of the disclosures, it is intended that all matter contained in the description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

[0042]Generally speaking, described herein, among other things, are systems and methods which allow for IoT systems, such as those used for home or other building automation, to initiate communication, or make decisions as to operation, by using detected presence of a human in a network without fiducial elements. Basically, the systems and methods utilize various technologie

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Abstract

Systems and methods that can utilize the detection of human occupancy without fiducial elements to control an environmental, security, or other system within a structure. The systems and method can initiate communication to a human user directly, and can alter their operation based on human presence.

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