Method for provisioning of room automation components of a building automation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10171262-B2
Application number	US-201715697961-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2017
Priority date	Sep 8, 2016
Publication date	Jan 1, 2019
Grant date	Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

A method for provisioning and configuring room automation components of a building automation system during an installation and configuration phase, wherein a configuration unit is used for the provisioning and configuring the room automation components, each room automation component is assigned a unique during the installation, a temporary address and a unique recognition code is defined for each room automation component and for an associated, temporary address, which is transferred to the respective room automation component, where a configuration mode is activated, during which the respective recognition code is issued by the respective room automation component. After successful identification and association with the respective associated, temporary address, each identified room automation component is indicated optically on the mobile unit and is selectable in a simple manner for further configuration, whereby the outlay in time is reduced and the flexibility during the installation is increased.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for provisioning and configuring room automation components of a building automation system with a configuration unit, the method comprising:
assigning a unique, temporary address by the configuration unit to each room automation component during an installation of the room automation components;
defining a unique recognition code for each room automation component of the room automation components and a respective associated temporary address based on the respective associated temporary address, which is transferred to a respective room automation component;
instructing installed room automation components by the configuration unit in a configuration mode to send out their unique recognition code, respectively;
sending each respective recognition code of the respective room automation component established aided by a mobile unit to the configuration unit for identification; and
indicating optically on the mobile unit each identified room automation component which is selectable for further configuration, after successful identification and association with the associated temporary address.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the respective recognition code of the respective room automation component is sent out at least one of (i) an optical signal and (ii) a short-range radio signal.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a light unit belonging to the room automation component is used for an output of the respective recognition code as an optical signal.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein one of (i) a radio frequency (RFID) chip and (ii) a near-field communication (NFC) chip belonging to the respective room automation component is used for an output of the respective recognition code as a short-range radio signal.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a light unit belonging to the room automation component is used for an output of the respective recognition code as an optical signal.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein one of (i) a radio frequency (RFID) chip and (ii) a near-field communication (NFC) chip belonging to the respective room automation component is used for an output of the respective recognition code as a short-range radio signal.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein one of (i) the RFID chip and (ii) the NFC chip belonging to the respective room automation component is activated by the configuration unit.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the unique recognition code comprises a redundant, error correcting code.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the mobile unit includes at least one optical sensor for detecting a local environment, a unit for establishing the recognition code and a display and input unit.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the room automation components in a field of view of the optical sensor of the mobile unit are displayed on the display and input unit of the mobile unit; and wherein identified room automation components are indicated optically.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the display and input unit comprise a touchscreen.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the mobile unit comprises a mobile terminal; and wherein a mobile application is used to activate and implement configuration of the room automation components of the building automation system.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the mobile terminal comprises one of (i) a smartphone and (ii) a tablet personal computer (PC).

14. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the mobile unit is connected to the configuration unit via a wireless communication connection.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the wireless communication connection comprises a wireless local area network.

Assignees

• Siemens Schweiz Ag

Inventors

• Krammer Lukas
• Lechner Daniel

Classifications

• G05B2219/2642

  Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house · CPC title

• H04L12/2816

  Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities (arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00) · CPC title

• G05B15/02 Primary

  electric · CPC title

• H04L41/22

  comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• H04L12/2814 Primary

  Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network (arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08) · CPC title