| CPC F24F 11/58 (2018.01) [F24F 11/30 (2018.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) network provisioning system, comprising:
a plurality of controllers, wherein:
each controller is configured to operate at least a portion of an HVAC system; and
one or more of the plurality of controllers are configured as a gateway controller that comprises:
a network interface configured to:
communicate directly with an access point;
communicate with one or more other gateway controllers within a local area network; and
communicate with controllers within a local mesh network; and
a processor operably coupled to the network interface, configured to:
determine a mesh network size for the local mesh network, wherein the mesh network size indicates a number of controllers that are members of the local mesh network;
broadcast the determined mesh network size to other gateway controllers within the local area network;
receive mesh network size information from the other gateway controllers within the local area network;
compute an average mesh network size for the local area network based on the received mesh network size information;
determine that the mesh network size for the local mesh network is less than the average mesh network size for the local area network; and
add one or more controllers to the local mesh network.
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