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.
Claims20
A method of managing a condition of an asset associated with a tenant in a cloud-based multi-tenant-enabled system, the cloud-based multi-tenant-enabled system comprising an application platform to provide an instance of a virtual application to a client over a network, the method comprising:
- providing, by an application platform within an instance of a virtual application, one or more graphical user interface elements adapted to allow a user to define measurement criteria to monitor the condition of the asset and trigger an automated action to influence the condition of the asset based on the measurement criteria, wherein the asset comprises a device at a site associated with the tenant;
- monitoring, at the cloud-based multi-tenant-enabled system, data from asset sensors for changes to the condition associated with the measurement criteria;
- determining, by the application platform, the automated action based on the changes associated with the measurement criteria, wherein the application platform provides configuration information to the device at the site to influence the condition of the asset in accordance with the automated action;
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- providing, by the application platform, a graphical user interface including one or more graphical representations of at least one of the data and the automated action to indicate the condition of the asset.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processing system of a cloud-based multi-tenant-enabled system, cause the processing system to:
- provide, within an instance of a virtual application, one or more graphical user interface elements adapted to allow a user to define measurement criteria to monitor a condition of an asset and trigger an automated action to influence the condition of the asset based on the measurement criteria for the asset associated with a tenant in the cloud-based multi-tenant-enabled system, wherein the asset comprises a device at a site associated with the tenant;
- monitor data from asset sensors for changes to the condition associated with the measurement criteria;
- determine the automated action based on the changes associated with the measurement criteria to provide configuration information to the device at the site to influence the condition of the asset in accordance with the automated action;
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- provide a graphical user interface including one or more graphical representations of at least one of the data and the automated action to indicate the condition of the asset.
A multi-tenant cloud-based system comprising:
- a data storage element to maintain an association between an asset associated with a tenant and measurement criteria;
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- a processing system coupled to the data storage element and a network to:
- provide, by an application platform within an instance of a virtual application provided to a client over the network, one or more graphical user interface elements adapted to allow a user to define the measurement criteria to monitor a condition of the asset and trigger an automated action to influence the condition of the asset based on the measurement criteria, wherein the asset comprises a device at a site associated with the tenant;
- monitor data from asset sensors for changes to the condition associated with the measurement criteria;
- determine, by the application platform, the automated action based on the changes associated with the measurement criteria, wherein the application platform provides configuration information to the device at the site to influence the condition of the asset in accordance with the automated action;
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- provide, by the application platform, a graphical user interface including one or more graphical representations of at least one of the data and the automated action to indicate the condition of the asset.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.