Mobile device with automatic acquisition and analysis of building automation system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9690265-B2
Application number	US-201213549060-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2012
Priority date	Jul 13, 2012
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

A building automation system includes a plurality of components, with each of the plurality of components associated with point data. A method of controlling the building automation system includes establishing communications between a mobile computing device and a building automation network of the building automation system. The method further includes receiving point data from the building automation system via the building automation network. In addition, the method includes identifying a plurality of components of the building automation system based on the point data received from the at least one building automation network and generating a model of the building automation system based on the point data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling a building automation system, the building automation system including a plurality of components and each of the plurality of components having point data associated therewith, the method comprising:
establishing communications between a mobile computing device and a building automation network of the building automation system; and
through operation of the mobile computing device, generating a graphical model and a performance model of the building automation system based on point data for each of a plurality of respective components of the building automation system,
which point data respectively identifies each of the respective components of the building automation system,
which point data is queried in real-time from at least one component of the building automation system via the building automation network,
wherein the graphical model depicts at least one grouping of at least portions of the components grouped together with respect to locations, systems, and/or subsystems in an illustration of a physical configuration of the building automation system,
which at least one grouping is determined during generation of the graphical model based on correspondence between portions of the respective point data for each of the components in the at least one grouping, which portions include at least one of: point name, point description, point value, point units, panel association, or any combination thereof,

through operation of the mobile computing device, generating an optimization strategy for at least one of the components on the mobile computing device, the optimization strategy based at least in part on the performance model of the building automation system and impulse response testing conducted on the at least one component.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending commands from the mobile computing device in order to conduct the impulse response testing on the at least one component.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising generating a revised performance model based on the impulse response testing conducted on the at least one component.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the graphical model displayed on the mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising determining the at least one optimization strategy for the at least one component based on the generated revised performance model.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the at least one optimization strategy for the at least one component is displayed on the mobile computing device.

7. The method of claim 5 further comprising implementing the at least one optimization strategy by sending commands from the mobile computing device to a field panel of the building automation system.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the building automation system comprises an HVAC system.

9. An arrangement comprising:
a building automation system including a plurality of components, each of the plurality of components having point data associated therewith that respectively identifies each of the respective components of the building automation system;
a mobile computing device in wireless communication with the building automation system, the mobile computing device configured to:
receive respective point data for each of the plurality of respective components that is queried from at least one component of the building automation system in real time; and
identify the plurality of components based on the received point data, and generate a graphical and a performance model of the building automation system based on the received point data,
wherein the graphical model depicts at least one grouping of at least portions of the components grouped together with respect to locations, systems and/or subsystems in an illustration of a physical configuration of the building automation system,
which at least one grouping is determined during generation of the graphical model based on correspondence between portions of the respective point data for each of the components in the at least one grouping, which portions include at least one of: point name, point description, point value, point units, panel association, or any combination thereof,

generating an optimization strategy for at least one of the components on the mobile computing device, the optimization strategy based at least in part on the performance model of the building automation system and impulse response testing conducted on the at least one component.

10. The arrangement of claim 9 wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to conduct the impulse response testing on at least one of the components of the building automation system.

11. The arrangement of claim 10 wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to generate a revised performance model of the building automation system based on the impulse response testing conducted on the at least one component.

12. The arrangement of claim 9 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to display a graphical representation of the graphical model of the building automation system.

13. The arrangement of claim 11 wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine the at least one optimization strategy based on the revised performance model.

14. The arrangement of claim 13 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to display the least one optimization strategy for the at least one component.

15. The arrangement of claim 13 wherein the mobile computing device is configured to implement the at least one optimization strategy by sending commands from the mobile computing device to the building automation system.

16. The arrangement of claim 9 wherein the building automation system comprises an HVAC system.

17. A method of improving the performance of an HVAC system including a building automation system, the method comprising:
wirelessly connecting a mobile computing device to a network of the building automation system;
generating a graphical model and a performance model of the building automation system in the mobile computing device based at least in part on received point data for each of a plurality of respective components of the building automation system,
which point data respectively identifies each of the respective components of the building automation system,
which point data is queried in real time from at least one component of the building automation system via the network,
wherein the graphical model depicts at least one grouping of at least portions of the components grouped together with respect to locations, systems, and/or subsystems in an illustration of a physical configuration of the building automation system,
which at least one grouping is determined during generation of the graphical model based on correspondence between portions of the respective point data for each of the components in the at least one grouping, which portions include at least one of: point name, point description, point value, point units, panel association, or any combination thereof;

performing impulse response testing on the building automation system using commands sent wirelessly from the mobile computing device to the building automation system via the network; and
generating an optimization strategy for at least one of the components on the mobile computing device, the optimization strategy based at least in part on the performance model of the building automation system and the impulse response testing.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising

Assignees

• Casilli Chris
• Siemens Industry Inc

Inventors

• Casilli Chris

Classifications

• G05B15/02 Primary

  electric · CPC title

• G05B13/048 Primary

  using a predictor · CPC title

• G05B13/04 Primary

  involving the use of models or simulators · CPC title