Site management in an on-demand system
Assigneesalesforce.com, inc.
InventorsGregory Wester, Matthew Paiz, Aleksandr Shulman
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for managing environmental conditions and energy usage associated with a site. One exemplary method of regulating an environment condition at a site involves a server receiving environmental measurement data from a monitoring system at the site via a network, determining an action for an electrical appliance at the site based at least in part on the environmental measurement data and one or more monitoring rules associated with the site, and providing an indication of the action to an actuator for the electrical appliance.
Claims18
A method of regulating an environmental condition at a site by a server coupled to a network, the method comprising:
- providing, to a client device over the network, an instance of a virtual application including one or more graphical user interface elements for defining one or more rules associated with the site;
- storing the one or more rules governing the environmental condition at the site in a database in association with the site;
- receiving, by the server via the network, measurement data from a first device at the site;
- determining, by the server, an action for an electrical appliance at the site to influence the environmental condition at the site based at least in part on the measurement data and the one or more rules associated with the site;
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- providing an indication of the action to a second device at the site to control operation of the electrical appliance.
A method of regulating an environmental condition at a site by a server coupled to a network, the method comprising:
- storing one or more rules governing the environmental condition at the site in a database in association with the site;
- receiving, by the server via the network, measurement data from a first device at the site;
- determining, by the server, an action for an electrical appliance at the site to influence the environmental condition at the site based at least in part on the measurement data and the one or more rules associated with the site;
- providing an indication of the action to a second device at the site to control operation of the electrical appliance;
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- providing, by the server to a client device over the network, a graphical user interface display within an instance of a virtual application, the graphical user interface display depicting the environmental condition at the site and operational status of the electrical appliance at the site, wherein the electrical appliance comprises a device capable of influencing the environmental condition at the site.
A system comprising:
- a database maintaining an association between a site and one or more rules governing an environmental condition at the site;
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- a server coupled to the database and a network to receive measurement data from a first device at the site via the network, obtain the one or more rules from the database, determine an action for an electrical appliance to modify the environmental condition at the site based at least in part on comparing the measurement data to the one or more rules, provide, via the network, indication of the action to a second device at the site to control operation of the electrical appliance to influence the environmental condition at the site, and provide, to a client device, a graphical user interface display within an instance of a virtual application, the graphical user interface display depicting conditions at the site and operational status of the second device at the site.
A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system communicatively coupled to a network, cause the processing system to:
- provide, to a client device over the network, an instance of a virtual application including one or more graphical user interface elements for defining one or more rules associated with a site;
- store the one or more rules in a database in association with the site, wherein the one or more rules govern an environmental condition at the site;
- receive, via the network, measurement data from a first device at the site;
- determine an action for an electrical appliance to modify the environmental condition at the site based at least in part on the measurement data received from the site via the network and the one or more rules associated with the site;
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- provide an indication of the action to a device at the site to control operation of the electrical appliance to influence the environmental condition at the site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.