Systems and methods for interfacing with a building management system

A method for scheduling one or more building management system (BMS) operations for a space, the method comprising:

• using stored relationships between a space or equipment indicated by a scheduling input and corresponding points of the building management system to automatically identify one or more points that correspond to the space or equipment, wherein the corresponding points of the building management system are used to operate the equipment to achieve a desired state or condition;
• automatically generating scheduling instructions for the one or more points based on the scheduling input;
• generating a graphical scheduling interface comprising user-selectable options for displaying (i) a plurality of breakout schedules comprising alternative schedule events for the space or equipment or the corresponding points based on the scheduling instructions and (ii) an effective schedule comprising a series of events generated from the alternative schedule events;
• and
• executing scheduling instructions associated with the series of events of the effective schedule to cause the one or more points to be set to corresponding point values at corresponding times.

A building management system (BMS) interface system, comprising:

• a user interface;
• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a scheduling input;
• extracting one or more scheduling elements from the scheduling input, the scheduling elements comprising an indication of a space or equipment to which the scheduling elements apply and a desired state or condition of the space or equipment;
• automatically identifying one or more points that correspond to the space or equipment indicated by the scheduling elements that are used to operate the equipment in order to achieve the desired state or condition, the one or more points identified using stored relationships between the points and the corresponding space or equipment;
• automatically generating one or more BMS data objects for each of the one or more points based on the scheduling input, the BMS data objects defining, for each of the one or more points, one or more point values and a time at which the point is to be set to each of the one or more point values;
• generating a graphical scheduling interface comprising user-selectable options for displaying (i) a plurality of breakout schedules comprising alternative schedule events for the space or equipment or the corresponding points based on the scheduling instructions and (ii) an effective schedule comprising a series of events generated from the alternative schedule events;
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• executing one or more scheduling instructions associated with the series of events of the effective schedule based on the BMS data objects, wherein the scheduling instructions are associated with the operation of one or more BMS devices and cause each of the one or more points to be set to a corresponding point value at the corresponding time.