Method and system for artificial intelligence (ai) based alarm management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2026037522-A1
Application number	US-202519280363-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 25, 2025
Priority date	Aug 1, 2024
Publication date	Feb 5, 2026
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an artificial intelligence-based alarm management based on structured time series data and unstructured contextual information where the conventional methods fails to do. Initially, the system receives a user query associated with an industry automation system and classifies into one of a) data request query b) an anomaly detection and diagnosis query c) a log request query and d) feedback for previous response using a query classifier. Simultaneously, the user query is converted into an associated timeseries query representation. Furthermore, a plurality of database queries is generated based on the timeseries query representation using query generator. Further, data pertaining to the user query is retrieved from an associated database based on database queries using Deep Learning models, thereby identifying a critical alarm, and to take appropriate actions if there is any anomaly. Finally, the retrieved data is displayed to the user in a user readable format.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A processor-implemented method, the method comprising:
receiving, via one or more hardware processors, a user query associated with an automation system, wherein the user query is in Natural Language (NL); classifying, via the one or more hardware processors, the user query into one of a) data request query b) an anomaly detection and diagnosis query c) a log request query and d) a feedback for previous response using a query classifier; simultaneously converting, via the one or more hardware processors, the user query into an associated timeseries query representation using a sequence-to-sequence model; generating, via the one or more hardware processors, a plurality of database queries based on the timeseries query representation using query generator, wherein the plurality of database queries comprises a multivariate timeseries database query and a relational database query; retrieving, via the one or more hardware processors, a data pertaining to the user query from an associated database from a plurality of databases based on an associated plurality of database queries and a classification information, wherein the retrieved data is in one of a) structured data format and b) an unstructured data format, wherein the retrieved data comprises one of a) a general information b) an anomaly information and c) a log information, wherein the plurality of databases comprises a timeseries databases and a relational database, and wherein the anomaly information is used to identify a critical alarm and to take appropriate actions; and displaying, via the one or more hardware processors, the retrieved data to the user by converting into a user readable format using an associated data conversion technique, wherein the unstructured data format is converted into user readable format using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique and the structured timeseries data is converted in the form of text, tables and graphs.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein retrieving the anomaly information based on the associated plurality of database queries and the classification information, by a deep neural network-based model, comprises:
receiving the multivariate timeseries dataset and the plurality of unstructured contextual information; segmenting the multivariate timeseries dataset and unstructured contextual information of alarms and events based on a predefined window size and a predefined step size; extracting a plurality of spatial features and a plurality of temporal features from the segmented multivariate timeseries dataset using a Deep Neural Network (DNN); identifying the anomaly information associated with the industry automation system based on the plurality of spatial features and the plurality of temporal features using a trained Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) network, wherein the DRL network is trained by:
computing a reconstruction loss by reconstructing a multivariate timeseries data based on a plurality of spatial features and a plurality of temporal features extracted from a training dataset using the DNN, wherein the reconstruction loss is backpropagated to the DNN;
simultaneously computing an anomaly threshold based on the timeseries data and the plurality of events by creating a DRL network comprising a plurality of Reinforced Learning (RL) agents, wherein the plurality of RL agents utilizes a deterministic formula; and
re-training the DRL network to identify anomalous behavior using a weighted average mechanism based on the control room user feedback.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the steps for identifying a root cause for the anomaly information based on the generated multivariate timeseries database query and the plurality of unstructured contextual information using the deep neural network-based model comprises:
identifying a plurality of source sensors based on the anomaly information, wherein anomaly information comprises a plurality of potential anomalous timeseries data, and wherein the plurality of sensors associated with the plurality of potential anomalous timeseries data are identified as the plurality of source sensors; computing a sensor reconstruction error for each of the plurality of source sensors based on a predefined sensor reconstruction error threshold using the DNN; and identifying at least one anomalous sensor from among the plurality of source sensors based on the sensor reconstruction error.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the timeseries query representation comprises a plurality of columns to be selected in a timeseries database, a plurality of table names, a plurality of filtering constraints, a data aggregation information, an ordering, a limiting data, an asset name, a plurality of date ranges and a classification information.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the timeseries data is retrieved from the timeseries databases and an unstructured contextual information is retrieved from relational databases, wherein the unstructured contextual information comprises alarms and events.

6 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein user feedback is obtained for the retrieved data from the user and stored in the relation database, and wherein the user feedback is utilized in re-training the DRL network.

7 . A system comprising:
at least one memory storing programmed instructions; one or more Input/Output (I/O) interfaces; and one or more hardware processors ( 102 ) operatively coupled to the at least one memory, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured by the programmed instructions to: receive a user query associated with an automation system, wherein the user query is in Natural Language (NL); classify the user query into one of a) data request query b) an anomaly detection and diagnosis query c) a log request query and d) a feedback for previous response using a query classifier; simultaneously convert the user query into an associated timeseries query representation using a sequence-to-sequence model; generate a plurality of database queries based on the timeseries query representation using query generator, wherein the plurality of database queries comprises a multivariate timeseries database query and a relational database query; retrieve a data pertaining to the user query from an associated database from a plurality of databases based on an associated plurality of database queries and a classification information, wherein the retrieved data is in one of a) structured data format and b) an unstructured data format, wherein the retrieved data comprises one of a) a general information b) an anomaly information and c) a log information, wherein the plurality of databases comprises a timeseries databases and a relational database, and wherein the anomaly information is used to identify a critical alarm and to take appropriate actions; and display the retrieved data to the user by converting into a user readable format using an associated data conversion technique, wherein the unstructured data format is converted into user readable format using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique and the structured timeseries data is converted in the form of text, tables and graphs.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein retrieving the anomaly information based on the associated plurality of database queries and the classification information by a deep neural network-based model comprises:
receiving the multivariate timeseries dataset and the plurality of unstructured contextual information; segmenting the multivariate timeseries dataset and unstructured contextual information of alarms and events based on a predefined window size and a predefined step size; extracting a plurality of spatial features and a plurality of temporal features from the seg

Assignees

• Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Inventors

• Majmudar Ninad Mrudulkumar
• Runkana Venkataramana

Classifications

• G06N3/092

  Reinforcement learning · CPC title

• G06N3/084

  Backpropagation, e.g. using gradient descent · CPC title

• G06F16/24522 Primary

  Translation of natural language queries to structured queries · CPC title

• G06F16/24575 Primary

  using context · CPC title

• G06F16/2477

  Temporal data queries · CPC title