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BACKGROUND - Pc workstations sometimes embrace inner power administration features that may be configured to show off numerous pieces of hardware to cut back power consumption when the workstation isn't being used. The interior power administration options built into workstations operate on the assumption that the workstation is not in use when no person inputs within the form of key presses or mouse movements have been received for a predetermined period of time. For example, the working system may be configured to show off the show after 20 minutes with no key presses, flip off the arduous drive after 30 minutes with no key presses, and place the CPU in a suspend, sleep or hibernate mode after 60 minutes with no key presses. The working system may even be configured to lock down the workstation and require the user to re-enter a password after any of these energy management actions happen. Basing energy management selections on the period of time without consumer inputs to the workstation, however, usually results in incorrect assumptions that lead to units being turned off and/or the workstation being locked down while the person is still present on the workstation. Moreover, if the person does go away the workstation shortly after the final consumer enter motion, the workstation could also be left unattended, absolutely powered, and unsecured during the entire time-out durations set for the various components. Abstract - A method could include offering an occupancy sensor coupled by way of a connection to a computer workstation, monitoring a space associated with the computer workstation with the occupancy sensor, generating an occupancy sign in response to monitoring the house, transmitting the occupancy sign to the computer workstation, processing the occupancy signal with a central processing unit of the computer workstation, and performing a number of energy administration features at the computer workstation in response to the occupancy signal. The a number of power management features could include an internal power administration operate, which incorporates at the very least one of turning off a display of the pc workstation, turning off a tough drive of the pc workstation, turning off the central processing unit of the computer workstation, and placing the workstation in a sleep mode. The connection between the occupancy sensor and the computer workstation may be a tough wire. The connection between the occupancy sensor and the pc workstation could also be by way of a wireless connection. Performing the a number of power administration functions could embrace controlling a power change coupled via a connection to the pc workstation. The occupancy signal could also be acquired by the computer workstation by means of a USB port. The one or more energy management capabilities might embrace an external energy management perform. The external energy management function might embrace turning off power to an electrical receptacle, which may be included in a power strip. The exterior power administration function may include controlling a peripheral system having built-in power administration capability. The external power administration function comprises speaking with a constructing automation system. Communicating with the building automation system might embrace requesting the building automation system to turn off lighting for the house related to the computer workstation. The house associated with the computer workstation may be monitored by an occupancy sensor mounted to a display for the pc workstation. The occupancy sensor could include two or more ultrasonic sensors, and the method could further include providing different weighting to outputs from the transducers, thereby adjusting the protection sample of the occupancy sensor. The strategy might further include adjusting a parameter of the occupancy sensor at the computer workstation. The strategy may further embrace monitoring knowledge by way of a load monitoring apparatus coupled to the computer workstation via a connection. The parameter of the occupancy sensor may be adjusted by way of a dialog box at the pc workstation. A technique could include monitoring a space associated with a pc workstation utilizing an occupancy sensor coupled to the pc workstation, producing an occupancy signal in response to monitoring the house, processing the occupancy sign at the pc workstation, and adjusting the occupancy sensor from the computer workstation. The strategy might additional embrace performing one or more power administration functions at the computer workstation in response to the occupancy signal. Adjusting the occupancy sensor from the computer workstation may embody receiving enter from a person at the workstation, adjusting a parameter of the occupancy sensor in response to the enter, and transmitting the adjusted parameter from the workstation to the occupancy sensor. The parameter could embrace sensitivity for the occupancy sensor. The tactic may further embrace receiving a wake enter at the occupancy sensor, and transmitting the wake enter to the workstation. The parameter could embody a sensitivity for the occupancy sensor, and the strategy might further embrace rising the sensitivity for the occupancy sensor in response to receiving the wake input. A method may embody monitoring a space related to a pc workstation for an occupant, generating an occupancy signal in response to monitoring the space, transmitting a request from the computer workstation to a building automation system in response to the occupancy sign, and performing a number of power administration functions with the building automation system in response to the request from the computer workstation. The one or more power administration features could embrace controlling a mild for the space associated with the pc workstation. The method might additional embrace overriding a blink warn operation in response to the request. The strategy may further include overriding a sweep operation in response to the request. Brief DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS - FIG. 1 illustrates an embodiment of an occupancy sensing system based on some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. FIG. 2 illustrates another embodiment of an occupancy sensing system in keeping with some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. FIG. Three illustrates another embodiment of an occupancy sensing system in response to some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. FIG. Four illustrates one other embodiment of an occupancy sensing system in response to some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. FIG. 5 illustrates an embodiment of a computer workstation based on some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a computer workstation in keeping with some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. FIG. 7 illustrates an embodiment of a dialog box for implementing a consumer interface according to some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. FIG. Eight is a block diagram of an embodiment of an occupancy sensor according to some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a energy strip in keeping with some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. FIG. 10 is a perspective view of an example embodiment of an occupancy sensor in response to some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. FIG. Eleven is a perspective view of an example embodiment of a energy strip based on some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. FIG. 14 is a prime plan view of a workspace associated with another embodiment of a workstation occupancy sensing system in response to some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. FIG. 15 illustrates one other embodiment of an occupancy sensing system according to some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. DETAILED DESCRIPTION - FIG. 1 illustrates an embodiment of an occupancy sensing system in accordance with some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. The embodiment of FIG. 1 contains a computer workstation 10 and an occupancy sensor 12 organized to watch an area 14 associated with the computer workstation for a number of occupants. The occupancy sensor 12 generates an occupancy sign in response to monitoring the space. A connection 16 between the occupancy sensor and the computer workstation allows the computer workstation 10 to process the occupancy sign and perform one or more power administration capabilities in response to the occupancy signal. A pc workstation (or "computer" or "workstation") refers to a mixture of input, output, and computing hardware that can be used for work or entertainment by an individual, and consists of desktop computer systems, notebook computers, terminals connected to networks, and so forth. The computing hardware could include a central processing unit (CPU) to execute program directions. The workstation might process the occupancy signal from the occupancy sensor with software program that uses CPU cycles to perform its features. Processing the occupancy signal may be carried out as a low precedence process on the CPU. Implementing the occupancy sign processing as a low precedence process might integrate well with other CPU processes because, if the workstation is in use and other increased priority course of are running, there is no such thing as a concern that the low precedence occupancy signal processing is slowed down. Nevertheless, if the occupancy sensor is checking for occupancy, then the workstation is unlikely to be in use, and free CPU cycles can be found. Moreover, processing the occupancy signal with workstation CPU cycles might also allow the processing energy of the occupancy sensor to be lowered, thereby reducing its price. The occupancy sensor 12 has a discipline of view 18 that allows it to watch the area 14 related to the computer workstation. The occupancy sensor 12 could also be based mostly on any appropriate sensing know-how such as passive infrared (PIR), ultrasonic (U/S), audio, video, and so on., or any combination thereof. FIG. 2 illustrates one other embodiment of an occupancy sensing system in keeping with some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. FIG. Three illustrates another embodiment of an occupancy sensing system in keeping with some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. The embodiment of FIG. Three is much like the embodiment of FIG. 1 but within the embodiment of FIG. 3, the workstation 24 contains functionality 26 that permits a person to regulate a parameter of the occupancy sensor on the workstation. The adjustable parameter could embody a time-out delay, sensitivity setting, and so on., for the occupancy sensor. The connection 32 may be integral with the connection sixteen that carries the occupancy signal, or it may be a separate connection. FIG. Four illustrates another embodiment of an occupancy sensing system according to some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. The embodiment of FIG. 4 is similar to the embodiment of FIG. 2 but the embodiment of FIG. Four consists of load monitoring apparatus 34 that enables the workstation 36 to monitor a number of masses via a connection 38 to the workstation. The load monitoring apparatus 34 could also be separate from, or integral with, power change 20, and permits the workstation to find out power, voltage and/or present ranges, as well as on/off status and different parameters of an electrical load. FIG. 5 illustrates an embodiment of a pc workstation in keeping with some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. The workstation forty two of FIG. 5 includes a show 44 and a CPU 46. An occupancy sensor 48 is mounted to the show to facilitate monitoring the space associated with the workstation. The occupancy sensor forty eight may be separate from, or integral with, the display 44, and may be based mostly on any appropriate sensing expertise. The occupancy sensor forty eight generates an occupancy signal which is transmitted to the CPU 46 by a connection 50, which may be carried out with any appropriate wired or wireless connection. FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a computer workstation in response to some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. The workstation fifty four is proven divided into hardware and software elements. As defined above, the operating system fifty six usually contains inside power administration options 88 that may be configured to turn off numerous pieces of hardware to reduce energy consumption when the workstation isn't being used. The interior energy administration options 88 built into the working system work on the assumption that the workstation is no longer in use when no consumer inputs in the form of key presses or mouse movements have been obtained for a predetermined time period. Basing energy administration decisions on the amount of time without user inputs to the workstation, nevertheless, usually leads to incorrect assumptions that result in gadgets being turned off and/or the workstation being locked down while the consumer continues to be present on the workstation. Moreover, if the user does leave the workstation shortly after the last consumer enter action, the workstation may be left unattended, absolutely powered, and unsecured throughout the whole time-out durations set for the varied elements. The appliance software 58 might embrace inner energy management functionality 78 that makes decisions in response to the precise presence or absence of a user on the workstation quite than assumptions based on the period of time without user enter actions. The inner power administration performance 78 determines the state of an occupancy sign from an occupancy sensor 28 by a USB port 68 and uses this data to make decisions on when to show off energy to numerous items of hardware, place the workstation in a suspend, sleep or hibernate mode, and/or lock down the workstation and require the user to re-enter a password. Using an occupancy sensor to control the inner energy administration functions of a workstation might reduce energy consumption and/or enhance workstation safety. For instance, occupancy sensors that use ultrasonic sensing know-how are inclined to have good sensitivity to the "small motions" which can be typical of an individual working at a desktop, and subsequently, may present an correct indication of the presence of an occupant at a workstation. Therefore, the timeout delay for the occupancy sensor 28 could also be set to a relatively quick amount of time, e.g., a couple of minutes, without producing false indications of an unoccupied condition at the workstation. This may increasingly lead to reduced power consumption and improved safety because the show, hard drive and different hardware may be turned off and the workstation locked down shortly after the person leaves the workstation. Moreover, using an occupancy sensor to regulate the internal power administration functions of a workstation might reduce or get rid of situations during which hardware is turned off and/or the workstation locked down even though the user remains to be current at the workstation. The application software fifty eight may embody software to interface the workstation to a lighting control system or other building automation system by the network interface card 76 or through some other suitable interface. The user interface software eighty may additionally enable a user to configure which internal and exterior energy management actions to take in response to the occupancy sensor 28 corresponding to turning off the display 62 or exhausting drive 64, inserting the workstation in a low energy mode resembling sleep, suspend, hibernate, and many others., locking down the workstation with password safety, turning off switched receptacles in one or more power strips 89 and 90, turning off external tools with in-built energy management capability corresponding to printer 92, or communicating with a lighting control system or different building automation system via the network interface card. The consumer interface might also allow the person to configure the application software program to show off inside or exterior hardware instantly upon receiving an unoccupied indication from the occupancy sensor, or after one or more extra time delays. Varied additional time delays may be used to stagger the times at which different items of hardware are turned off, in addition to when they're turned again on to prevent extreme power surges when the presence of a person at the workstation is detected again. The consumer interface can also enable a user to course of and/or view the facility consumption of the workstation and/or any peripherals having power monitoring functionality in actual time, as properly has historical records of energy consumption to look for patterns that may present indications of how to realize additional energy savings. The user interface might also enable the user to configure the system to report energy consumption information to a lighting management system or different constructing automation system for additional processing and evaluation. The appliance software could also be applied with an utility programming interface (API), thereby enabling it to hook, and be hooked by, different software. Some of the applying software program functionality may be applied with a person interface that's similar to a normal screensaver, and one or more portions of the applying software could also be chosen from a display saver portion of the working system. Nevertheless, the configuration and different hooks may be specific to the occupancy sensing and energy switching gadgets and their own resident packages. The inventive rules usually are not restricted to instance implementation details shown in FIG. 6. For instance, the connections made through the USB ports and NIC may be implemented with wireless connections corresponding to Bluetooth, or may use various wired connections equivalent to DisplayPort or HDMI connections. Power line communication (PLC) connections could also be used to communicate with power switches in power strips or in switched receptacles located in wiring devices close to the workstation. Furthermore, switched power receptacles may be built-in instantly into the workstation to regulate power to peripheral units in response to an occupancy sensor that is related to the workstation. FIG. 7 illustrates an embodiment of a dialog field for implementing a person interface in keeping with some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. The dialog box ninety four contains graphical "slider bars" for setting the sensitivity, discipline of protection (in terms of viewing angle) and time-out delay for an occupancy sensor that's capable of receiving adjustable parameters. The dialog box additionally includes check bins to specify which internally managed hardware akin to displays (monitors) and exhausting drives, as well as which externally controlled hardware resembling power strips, needs to be turned off in response to the occupancy sensor. FIG. Eight is a block diagram of an embodiment of an occupancy sensor according to some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. The occupancy sensor 96 contains a number of sensors 98 primarily based on any suitable sensing technology or applied sciences. A controller one hundred processes uncooked signals from the a number of sensors 98 and generates an occupancy sign which is transmitted by a USB port 102. Typical sensitivity and time-out delay controls 104 could also be included to allow the controller to adjust the occupancy sensor for the particular space it is configured to monitor. Alternatively, or moreover, the controller could adjust the occupancy sensor in response to adjustable parameters that it receives by the USB port 102. A number of indicators 106 could also be included to display the occupied/unoccupied status as decided by the occupancy sensor. For instance, a tri-color LED may be configured to display crimson for an unoccupied condition, inexperienced for an occupied condition, and yellow for a fault condition. A "wake now" enter permits a person to take the system out of unoccupied mode if the sensor does not detect when the user returns to the workstation. Electronics in the occupancy sensor or utility software within the workstation might improve the sensitivity setting of the occupancy sensor every time the wake now button is pressed, since this may increasingly point out that the sensitivity setting is simply too low. FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a energy strip in line with some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. The facility strip 110 of FIG. 9 receives input energy from a connection 112 which may embrace a plug-and-cord meeting, connector prongs to plug straight right into a receptacle, and so on. A most important swap and/or circuit breaker and/or surge arrestor 114 receives the input energy which is distributed directly to a first set of receptacles 116 that are energized when the ability switch 114 is closed. The workstation interface 130 permits the power strip to communicate with a workstation by means of a wired or wireless connection using any suitable interfacing association. The ability monitor circuit 128 could embody any appropriate circuitry to monitor the voltage, current, power, and so forth., of any load linked to any of the switched or unswitched receptacles. In some embodiments, a commercially accessible meter chip may be used together with a current sense transformer and voltage sense leads to supply a low-price solution that could be easily integrated into the ability strip. The consumer interface 126 could embrace any kind of inputs and/or outputs to allow a consumer to configure and/or management the power strip, enter parameters, verify the status or efficiency historical past of the power strip, and so on., from the ability strip itself. The person interface may include a number of input units resembling a potentiometer or other analog enter, digital switches of any kind together with DIP switches, toggle switches, rotary switches, and so on. The person interface could embody one or more output units resembling lights, LEDs, numeric shows, alphanumeric shows, dot-matrix shows, etc. The consumer interface may be configured to enable a user to set one or more time delays that management the operation of the switching circuit as described beneath, as well as communication protocols, and/or extra time delay, and/or another parameters. The communications with the workstation could also be only one-method to control a number of sets of switched receptacles, or bi-directional to enable reporting of energy monitoring knowledge to the workstation. In some embodiments, the controller 124 in the power strip could also be configured to show each units of switched receptacles one hundred twenty and 122 on or off at the same time as soon because it receives a command from the workstation. In other embodiments, the controller may delay turning one in all the 2 units on or off to avoid power fluctuations, surges, etc. Alternatively, the different sets of switched receptacles 120 and 122 may be controlled by totally different commands from the workstation which may include logic for staggering load flip-on and turn off, or for controlling the two sets of receptacles differently in response to totally different occupancy situations at the workstation. For instance, completely different hundreds may be turned on or off in response to different occupancy sensors in a multi-sensor arrangement as described under. FIG. 10 is a perspective view of an instance embodiment of an occupancy sensor according to some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. The embodiment of FIG. 10 could also be used, for example, to implement embodiment of FIG. 8. The occupancy sensor of FIG. 10 features a compact housing 132 to facilitate easy mounting on a workstation show. The front of the housing consists of two ultrasonic transducers 134 and 138 which might be mounted on a convex floor to provide a defined coverage sample (field of "view") for ultrasonic occupancy sensing. A mini USB port 140 enables the usage of a typical USB cable to connect the occupancy sensor to a USB port on the workstation. A removable panel 142 conceals standard management dials for sensitivity and time-out delay settings. A pushbutton 144 could also be used to implement the "wake now" characteristic described above. In some embodiments, the coverage sample of the occupancy sensor may be adjusted by disabling one of many transducers, or by providing different weighting to the outputs from the transducers to implement a beam forming technique. The occupancy sensor of FIG. 10 could also be mounted in any suitable location using any appropriate technique akin to clips, magnets, two-sided tape, hook-and-loop fasteners akin to Velcro, and so forth. In some embodiments, a devoted communication cable for connecting to a workstation could also be permanently attached to the housing utilizing a pressure relief. Alternatively, or along with a USB port or permanent cable, a wireless interface using radio frequency (RF) or infrared (IR) technology may be included for communication with the workstation. An Infrared Information Affiliation (IrDA) compatible interface 148 is shown in FIG. 10 to implement IR communications. RF communication may be completed with an antenna that's internal to the housing if the housing is made from plastic. FIG. Eleven is a perspective view of an instance embodiment of a energy strip in line with some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. The embodiment of FIG. 11 could also be used, for example, to implement the embodiment of FIG. 9. The ability strip of FIG. Eleven includes a housing 150, a plug-and-cord assembly 152, a fundamental power change 154, an IrDA receiver 158, and a type-B USB port 156 for connecting the ability strip to a pc or other gear. Two units of receptacles 160 and 162 are de-energized when the principle power change 154 is within the OFF place. FIGS. 12 and thirteen illustrate a side elevation view and a top plan view, respectively, of an example of the coverage sample 164 that could be achieved with the occupancy sensor of FIG. 10. The occupancy sensor 131 is mounted to the highest of a workstation show 166 that is situated on a desk 168. In this instance, the workstation CPU is included in the show 166 and is managed by keyboard 170. As seen in FIGS. 12 and 13, the coverage pattern 164 includes the person's chair 172 and different areas related to the workstation that the consumer is likely to occupy whereas actively working on the workstation. These areas embrace a printer 174, a activity lamp 176 and a space heater 178. The coverage sample is typical of the pattern which may be achieved with a two-transducer ultrasound system. This sample could also be altered by turning off or weighting the outputs from a number of of the transducers as described above, or through the use of different occupancy sensing technologies. FIG. 14 is a top plan view of a workspace related to another embodiment of a workstation occupancy sensing system in line with some inventive principles of this patent disclosure. The workspace of FIG. 14 is an office having a door 180, a desk 182, a chair 184 for the workplace's primary occupant, visitor chairs 186, and a whiteboard 187. A workstation display 188 has two occupancy sensors 190 and 192 which can be mounted on high of the display and connected to the workstation by USB cables or different kinds of connections as described above. The first occupancy sensor 190 has a protection pattern 194 that is mostly supposed to include only the space that's likely to be occupied by the main occupant of the workplace whereas working alone. Each of the occupancy sensors 190 and 192 may be connected to the workstation and configured and operated as described in the context of systems having a single occupancy sensor as described above, but with separate settings and actions outlined for every occupancy sensor. For instance, room lighting or area heating within the office possibly turned on in response to either of the 2 occupancy sensors detecting an occupied condition, whereas the show, and any activity lighting, printer, or different peripherals positioned on the desk 182 could only be controlled in response to the occupancy sensor 190 having the coverage sample 194 that features the desk space. FIG. 15 illustrates one other embodiment of an occupancy sensing system in keeping with some inventive rules of this patent disclosure. The embodiment of FIG. 15 consists of a number of workstations 200, every workstation having an occupancy sensor 202 connected to the workstation utilizing any of the techniques described above. Every workstation additionally has not less than one constructing light fixture 204 that illuminates the area related to the corresponding workstation. The movement of power to the constructing lights is managed by a load control gadget 206 in response to commands acquired from a constructing automation server, workstation, or different controller 208. The load control device 206 and building automation or lighting system controller 208 and workstations 200 are related to a constructing community 210 by means of network adapters 212, 214 and 216, respectively, in addition to their very own individual community interface cards. The constructing network 210 could also be carried out with Ethernet, CAN or different kind of community suitable for constructing automation, vitality management, and so forth. The load management device could also be carried out with a relay cabinet, dimmer rack, distributed relay/dimmer system, and so forth., or every other community linked load management machine. The constructing automation controller 208 supplies the overall operational logic for the system. When the controller 208 receives a message from one of the workstations indicating that the related occupancy sensor has detected an unoccupied condition for the associated area, it issues a command to the relay cabinet instructing it to turn off the sunshine for the area associated with that workstation. Upon receiving an indication from a workstation that the associated space is once again occupied, the controller indicators the relay cabinet to restore power to the light for that area. A possible benefit of the system illustrated in FIG. 15 is that it might allow lighting and different building automation programs to raised accommodate occupants in cubicles or different relatively small spaces. Traditional lighting control techniques and other constructing automation systems usually make use of ceiling or wall mounted occupancy sensors. Cubical spacing requires extra densely placed sensors with proper alignment difficult by the location of overhead lighting fixtures, heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) gear, sprinklers, and many others. Moreover, the frequent rearrangement that is frequent with cubical spaces presents a further problem to correct alignment of occupancy sensors. The inventive principles referring to workstation-based mostly occupancy sensor programs described in this patent disclosure, nevertheless, could scale back or get rid of these issues as a result of the occupancy sensor for every workstation and its related workspace may be positioned very easily in a close location that reliably monitors the area most likely to be occupied by the workstation user. Moreover, the inventive rules could cut back the price and uncertainty related to mounting quite a few occupancy sensors on ceilings or walls of buildings. In embodiments in which a workstation is networked to a lighting management system or different building automation system, the application software could implement a blink warning override feature. For instance, the lighting control system may be configured to turn off the lights in a building area in response to a timer-based vitality conservation schedule. In such a configuration, the lighting control system usually turns the lights off briefly (a "blink warning") prior to actually turning off the lights to notify occupants of the impending automated turn-off. After the blink warning, the lights are held on long sufficient to permit occupants to depart the world or input a request to the lighting control system to maintain the lights on. Inputting a request sometimes requires the occupant to find a management station for the lighting control system. The nearest management station could also be a considerable distance from the occupant's workstation. In line with some inventive ideas of this patent disclosure, the applying software might mechanically notify the lighting control system that the house associated with the workstation is occupied, and therefore, automatically override the blink warning for the sunshine or lights that illuminate the space associated with the workstation. Alternatively, or in addition, the application software may obtain a message from the lighting control system when a blink warning is imminent, and current a pop-up message or dialog box to the occupant advising the occupant of the impending blink warning. This will likely merely notify the occupant of the blink warning event, or the occupant may then be allowed to elect by the workstation to override the blink warning, or to allow the blink warning to proceed as regular. In embodiments by which a workstation is networked to a lighting control system or other constructing automation system, the applying software might also provide different override options. For example, if the lighting control system is configured to turn off the lights in a building area in response to a timer-primarily based vitality conservation schedule, the application software program may request that the lighting management system maintain the lighting in the space related to the workstation, regardless of any blink warn functionality. The maintained lighting might embody not solely the area associated with the workstation, but also any related areas to allow for egress from the space. The application software might even be configured to allow or override an try by a networked building automation system to sweep off power receptacles in the area related to the workstation if the occupancy sensor indicates that the space is occupied. The sweep-off functionality may be integrated with, or separate from the blink warning override performance. In embodiments through which a workstation is networked to a lighting management system or other constructing automation system, the appliance software program may also provide load monitoring data to the control or automation system if there's any load monitoring apparatus related to the workstation. This will likely enable the lighting management system or other building automation system to judge the effectiveness of the occupancy sensing and load control functionality of the workstation-based mostly occupancy sensing programs, as well as their interplay with different constructing automation systems. In places where a handheld or other remote management is used for native control of lights in a lighting management system or other building automation system, a workstation having an occupancy sensor connected may be further related to the remote control as a option to interface the workstation to the control or automation system. For instance, an present handheld remote management may provide on/off and dimming control of overhead lights by an IR receiver in a digital wall change or photocell gadget. An extra wired or wireless connection could also be created between the handheld remote and the workstation to allow the workstation to manage the lighting in response to the occupancy sensor by means of the handheld remote, thereby eliminating the necessity for a community connection between the workstation and the lighting control system or building automation system. Alternatively, a wireless connection could also be created instantly between the workstation and the receiver that is used by the handheld distant, thereby permitting the workstation to speak immediately with the lighting control system by means of the prevailing system elements and without the necessity for an extra network connection. The methods and apparatus described above allow the implementation of countless options in line with the inventive ideas of this patent disclosure. Some example implementation details are described beneath for example the many options and benefits that could be realized. The inventive ideas, nevertheless, should not restricted to these example details. Although any appropriate occupancy sensing technology, or combination thereof, could also be utilized, ultrasonic sensing may be significantly effectively suited to the small areas and small motion which will have to be detected for occupants performing workplace work in a cubicle. Mounting the one or more occupancy sensors on a workstation show could provide best converge as a result of workstation users sometimes arrange their whole workspace across the display. Utilizing an occupancy sensor that generates a traditional occupancy sign that provides a binary occupied/unoccupied indication could simplify implementation and allow using existing occupancy sensing circuitry which has been subjected to in depth troubleshooting, fine tuning and price reduction. Nonetheless, different forms of occupancy sensors that present extra raw output such as the unprocessed output from an ultrasound transducer or infrared pyrometer may be used, and the computing power of the workstation may be used to course of the uncooked output to make the occupied/unoccupied determination. The occupancy sensors might embody onboard electronics which are solely ample to regulate the sensitivity and time-out delay based mostly on local inputs at the occupancy sensor, or the electronics could also be able to adjust the occupancy sensor in response to adjustable parameters which are enter by a workstation user by a pop-up or management panel and transmitted via a USB or other wired or wireless connection. Energy strips having a number of switched and unswitched energy receptacles may present a perfect platform to modify power to exterior workstation peripherals equivalent to task lighting, printers, area heaters, and so on., in response to an occupancy sensor coupled to the workstation. Nevertheless, other energy switching platforms may be used including single-receptacle plug-in modules that plug instantly into a wall outlet with no power cord and communicate with the workstation by a wired or wireless connection similar to a Bluetooth wireless interface. Other examples embrace building wiring devices such as wall outlets which have switched receptacles and talk with the workstation by a wired or wireless connection. One type of power strip may embody a USB connection to the workstation with a mixture of switched and unswitched receptacles as proven in FIGS. 9 and 11. One other kind of receptacle could not have a connection to the workstation, but as an alternative may be connected directly to the occupancy sensor via a wired or wireless connection. Such an embodiment may have inbuilt sensitivity and time-out delay functionality and will embody consumer inputs to adjust these parameters. In embodiments by which a workstation may be placed in a standby or hibernate mode when the house related to the workstation is unoccupied, the ability for the USB or different connection to the occupancy sensor could also be turned off. Therefore, the workstation operating system could have to be configured to wake when it receives a signal on the USB or different connection. The inventive rules of this patent disclosure have been described above with reference to some particular example embodiments, but these embodiments might be modified in arrangement and detail with out departing from the inventive ideas. For example, a few of the embodiments described above are illustrated within the context of lighting control programs, but the inventive rules could also be applied to HVAC programs, security methods, and so on. As a further example, much of the performance within the embodiments described above is described in the context of a software program implementation, however any of the performance could even be implemented with analog and/or digital hardware, software, firmware, or any appropriate combination thereof. Such adjustments and modifications are thought-about to fall within the scope of the next claims.

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