US 11,927,352 B2
Wireless actuator service
Daniel Waseen, Minneapolis, MN (US); Sophia Bellos, Morristown, NJ (US); Carl Penttila, Morristown, NJ (US); Timothy McCarthy, Maple Grove, MN (US); and Robert Sibilski, Ramsey, MN (US)
Assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US)
Filed on Jun. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/892,077.
Application 16/892,077 is a continuation of application No. 14/639,923, filed on Mar. 5, 2015, granted, now 10,684,030.
Prior Publication US 2020/0363084 A1, Nov. 19, 2020
Int. Cl. F24F 11/00 (2018.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); F24F 11/56 (2018.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC F24F 11/0001 (2013.01) [H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); F24F 11/56 (2018.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable handheld device for interacting with a damper actuator that is installed or will be installed at a particular installation site in a particular building, wherein the damper actuator includes an actuatable damper, an actuator configured to move the actuatable damper and an NFC wireless communication module, and wherein the damper actuator is configured to receive and execute operational control commands from a building management system of the particular building, the portable handheld device comprising:
an NFC wireless module for communicating with the NFC wireless communication module of the damper actuator;
a user interface including a display;
a controller operatively coupled to the NFC wireless module and the display, the controller configured to:
establish an NFC communication channel between the NFC wireless module of the portable handheld device and the NFC wireless communication module of the damper actuator;
retrieve directly from the damper actuator operational data from the damper actuator;
display at least some of the retrieved operational data on the display of the portable handheld device, wherein the operational data that is displayed on the portable handheld device include:
a number of open and/or close cycles undergone by the damper actuator to date;
a minimum operating temperature experienced by the damper actuator to date; and
a maximum operating temperature experienced by the damper actuator to date;
retrieve directly from the damper actuator fault information stored by the damper actuator via the NFC communication channel;
display at least some of the retrieved fault information on the display of the portable handheld device;
retrieve directly from the damper actuator via the NFC communication channel a current configuration parameter value for each of a plurality of configuration parameters stored by the damper actuator, wherein the configuration parameters configure the damper actuator for the particular installation site in the particular building and for subsequent use in executing operational control commands from the building automation system of the particular building;
display one or more configuration screens on the display of the portable handheld device, the one or more configuration screens configured to display the current configuration parameter value for one or more of the plurality of configuration parameters retrieved from the damper actuator, wherein the plurality of current configuration parameter values that are displayed on the portable handheld device include:
an opening speed parameter value for the damper actuator that controls an opening speed of the damper actuator in response to an open command from the building management system; and
a control signal type value that specifies a format of the control commands from the building management system of the particular building;
receive an updated configuration parameter value for each of one or more of the configuration parameters of the damper actuator from the user of the portable handheld device via the one or more configuration screens; and
send one or more configuration commands via the NFC communication channel to the damper actuator that are based at least in part on the one or more updated configuration parameter values received via the one or more configuration screens to cause the damper actuator to change one or more of the configuration parameters of the damper actuator to the corresponding updated configuration parameter value received from the user of the portable handheld device via the one or more configuration screens.