Dashboard framework for gadgets
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsWei Hua, Christopher Martin, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Ajay N. Nair, Prabhat Ranjan, Barnali Chetia, Upender Paravastu, Robert Klamka, Sreedharan Venkataraman
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Abstract
An intuitive dashboard framework for creating, managing and publishing a collection of visualization gadgets for critical environments. It may further reveal intelligent gadgets to visualize critical environmental data in wet chemistry laboratories, and a healthcare and life science environment that are easy to configure, customize and deploy for a web dashboard presentation.
Claims19
A method for providing a dashboard for a building control system including a plurality of devices connected over a network located in a laboratory, comprising:
- receiving environmental data and device data at the plurality of devices;
- creating a dashboard framework for the building control system, wherein the dashboard framework is configured to link the plurality of devices to a plurality of gadgets from a library of the dashboard framework over the network, wherein the plurality of gadgets are configured to monitor the plurality of devices using the environmental data and the device data and provide operational control over the plurality of devices via the network to an end user using a physical device that displays the dashboard framework to the end user;
- configuring a dashboard setting for the dashboard framework, configuring the dashboard setting including:
- pulling the environmental data and the device data over the network from the plurality of devices;
- providing at least one structure grid;
- obtaining one or more gadgets from the plurality of gadgets located in the library for showing information relating to the plurality of devices of the building control system;
- placing the one or more gadgets on the at least one structure grid to define one or more dashboards customized to the laboratory;
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- performing object model navigation on the customized one or more dashboards to view a dashboard from the customized one or more dashboards corresponding to an object model in accordance with an object model hierarchy;
- downloading the dashboard framework to the physical device viewable in the laboratory;
- wherein the one or more customized dashboards include at least one generic gadget configured to be customizable by the end user in response to a user input;
- wherein the one or more customized dashboards include a gadget from the one or more gadgets that provide actionable data about one or more devices from the plurality of devices that enable the end user to take steps to support energy reduction initiatives, optimize operations, safety reports and compliance reporting, and act on other one or more items;
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- wherein at least some of the actionable data display energy usage for a room-level device in an equivalent amount of fuel or carbon emissions.
A system having a computing device connected to a network for configuring a customizable dashboard for a building control system including a plurality of devices connected over a network and located at a job site and configured to receive environmental data and device data, comprising:
- a first component configured to pull the environmental data and the device data from the plurality of devices from the building control system via the network and provide one or more dashboard templates customized to the job site;
- a second component configured to provide a workbench tool for providing gadgets from a library for a dashboard and link the plurality of devices to the gadgets;
- wherein the gadgets are configured to monitor the plurality of devices using the environmental data and the device data and provide operational control over the plurality of devices via the network to a user;
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- a third component configured to provide a structure grid patterned according to the one or more dashboard templates, and configured to display the gadgets in the structure grid thereby defining the dashboard;
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- wherein the one or more dashboard templates are defined to provide information pertinent to the user;
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- wherein the one or more dashboard templates include a gadget from the gadgets that provide actionable data about one or more devices from the plurality of devices that enable the user to take steps to support energy reduction initiatives, optimize operations, safety reports and compliance reporting, and act on other one or more items;
- wherein at least some of the actionable data displays energy usage for a room-level device from the plurality of devices in an equivalent amount of fuel or carbon emissions;
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- wherein the one or more dashboard templates include at least one generic gadget from the gadgets configured to be customized by the user in response to a user input.
A dashboard system having a computing device connected to a network for a building control system including a plurality of devices connected over a network and located in a critical laboratory environment, comprising:
- a first component configured to pull environmental data and device data from the plurality of devices in the critical laboratory environment, provide one or more gadgets from a library for a dashboard and link the plurality of devices to the gadgets;
- wherein the gadgets are configured to monitor the plurality of devices using the environment data and the device data and provide operational control over the plurality of devices via the network to an end user, at least one of the one or more gadgets configured to be customized by an end user;
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- a second component configured to provide a structure grid for displaying the one or more gadgets that define the dashboard;
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- wherein the one or more gadgets are defined to provide information about the plurality of devices in the critical laboratory environment;
- wherein the dashboard is at least in part an energy-based dashboard for the critical laboratory environmental to provide actionable data and at least some of the actionable data display energy usage for a room-level device in an equivalent amount of fuel or carbon emissions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.