Building management system with artificial intelligence for unified agent based control of building subsystems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11449015-B2
Application number	US-202117148851-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 14, 2021
Priority date	Jun 15, 2017
Publication date	Sep 20, 2022
Grant date	Sep 20, 2022

Abstract

A building management system with artificial intelligence based control of a building includes data collectors are configured to receive data and generate data streams for subsystems of the building. The system includes a learning engine configured to identify a building state of the building by correlating data of the data streams for the subsystems and provide the identified building state to cognitive agents. The system includes the cognitive agents, each of the cognitive agents configured to receive the identified building state from the learning engine, generate a control decision based on the received building state, and operate at least one of the plurality of subsystems of the building to control a physical condition of the building based on the control decision.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A building system of a building including one or more memory devices that include instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
store an entity database in the one or more memory devices, the entity database including a plurality of entities and relationships, the plurality of entities representing people, spaces, or devices of the building and the relationships relating the people, the spaces, or the devices;
receive timeseries data from a plurality of devices of the building;
ingest the timeseries data into the entity database in one or more entities of the plurality of entities; and
execute a first agent and a second agent based on the timeseries data stored in the entity database, the first agent configured to operate a first building device of the plurality of devices of the building of a first type, the second agent configured to operate a second building device of the plurality of devices of the building of a second type different than the first type, wherein a first operation of the first building device by the first agent and a second operation of the second building device by the second agent together achieve a common outcome.

2. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:
generate a prioritization function for each of the first agent and the second agent; and
send the prioritization function to the first agent and the second agent;
wherein the first agent and the second agent are configured to determine whether to override an operation of a particular subsystem of a plurality of subsystems based on the prioritization function and data of the particular subsystem.

3. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the first operation and the second operation are one or more control decisions that control one or more conditions of the building.

4. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the timeseries data comprises a natural language data stream of a natural language input system;
wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:
determine, based on the natural language data stream, a particular state of interest to a user, wherein the particular state of interest comprises a building draft state indicating that the building is experiencing an air draft; and
provide the building draft state to each of the first agent and the second agent.

5. The building system of claim 4 , wherein the first agent is associated with a security subsystem, wherein the first agent associated with the security subsystem is configured to determine, based on data of the security subsystem, whether one or more doors or windows are open in response to a reception of the building draft state; and
wherein the second agent is associated with an HVAC subsystem, wherein the second agent associated with the HVAC subsystem is configured to determine, based on data of the HVAC subsystem, whether a damper of the HVAC subsystem is stuck in response to receiving the building draft state.

6. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:
identify a building state of the building by correlating data of the timeseries data; and
provide the building state to the first agent and the second agent;
wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to execute the first agent and the second agent based on the building state.

7. The building system of claim 6 , wherein the building state of the building is an emergency state indicating that the building is experiencing an emergency.

8. The building system of claim 6 , wherein each of the first agent and the second agent are configured to generate a particular control decision based on the building state by generating the particular control decision with a reactive function, wherein the reactive function is unique to a type of building subsystem that each of the first agent and the second agent is associated with.

9. The building system of claim 6 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to identify the building state of the building by correlating data of the timeseries data by:
extracting one or more features from the timeseries data, wherein the one or more features comprises a portion of the data of the timeseries data;
transforming the one or more features; and
identifying the building state by correlating the one or more features by performing machine learning on the one or more features.

10. The building system of claim 6 , wherein the building state is fire state, wherein the first agent is associated with a plurality of dampers of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) subsystem, wherein the second agent is configured to:
receive a humidity value of outdoor air outside the building, wherein the humidity value is measured by the HVAC subsystem;
determine whether the humidity value of outdoor air is greater than a predefined threshold;
generate a control decision to open dampers in an area of the building associated with a fire in response to a determination that the humidity value of outdoor air is greater than the predefined threshold and in response to a reception of the fire state; and
operate the plurality of dampers to open the plurality of dampers based on the control decision to open the plurality of dampers.

11. The building system of claim 6 , including a plurality of subsystems including a fire detection subsystem, a video surveillance subsystem, and a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) subsystem;
wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to identify the building state of the building by correlating data of a data stream of the fire detection subsystem, a data stream of the video surveillance subsystem, and a data stream of the HVAC subsystem, wherein the building state is a fire state indicative of a fire in the building;
wherein each of the first agent and the second agent is configured to control the fire in the building in response to a reception of the fire state.

12. The building system of claim 11 , wherein each of the first agent and the second agent is configured to generate a particular control decision based on the fire state by determining the particular control decision based on a plurality of reactive functions, the plurality of reactive functions comprising a reactive function for each of the first agent and the second agent, wherein the plurality of reactive functions comprise:
a first reactive function that generates the particular control decision for the HVAC subsystem, the particular control decision for the HVAC subsystem causing the HVAC subsystem to operate to reduce an oxygen level of an unoccupied area of the building;
a second reactive function that generates the particular control decision for the HVAC subsystem, the particular control decision for the HVAC subsystem causing the HVAC subsystem to operate to exhaust smoke from exit routes of the building; and
a third reactive function that generates the particular control decision for a human-machine interaction system, the particular control decision for the human-machine interaction system causing the human-machine interaction system to provide occupants of the space with details regarding the exit routes.

13. A method of a building:
storing, by a processing circuit, an entity database in one or more memory devices, the entity database including a plurality of entities and relationships, the plurality of entities representing people, spaces, or devices of the building and the relationships relating the people, the spaces, or the devices;
receiving, by the process

Assignees

• Johnson Controls Tech Co

Inventors

• Locke Robert
• Sinha Sudhi R

Classifications

• H04L41/046

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• H04L12/2827 Primary

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