Multi-site building management system
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsHimanshu Khurana, John Cronin, Michael Baker, Jared P. Faber
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Abstract
Methods and systems for controlling a building. An illustrative method includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building, using the received sensor data to control one or more building management components to control one or more environmental conditions within the building, normalizing the sensor data and storing the normalized sensor data, comparing the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated the building, and providing a recommended action to improve at least one of the one or more identified anomalies of the building.
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A method for identifying an anomaly in the operation of a building, the method comprising:
- receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building;
- using at least some of the sensor data to control one or more building management components of the building;
- determining a group of other buildings that share one or more attributes with the building, the one or more attributes including an average outdoor temperature that is within a predetermined average temperature range;
- comparing the received sensor data with sensor data from one or more of the other buildings in the determined group to identify one or more anomalies associated with the operation of the building;
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- outputting an alert for at least one of the one or more identified anomalies associated with the operation of the building.
A system for controlling a building, the system comprising:
- a local building controller configured to control one or more building management components of the building, the local building controller configured to:
- receive sensor data from one or more sensors of the building;
- use the received sensor data to control the one or more building management components of the building to control one or more environmental conditions within the building in accordance with one or more operating parameters;
- a remote device in operative communication with the local building controller, the remote device comprising one or more processors, the remote device configured to:
- receive at least some of the sensor data from the local building controller;
- normalize the sensor data using the one or more processors;
- compare the normalized sensor data with normalized sensor data from one or more other buildings and compare one or more of the operating parameters of the local building controller with corresponding operating parameters of one or more of the other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated with the building;
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- outputting an alert for at least one of the one or more identified anomalies associated with the building.
A method for identifying an anomaly in the operation of a building, the method comprising:
- receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the building;
- using at least some of the received sensor data to control one or more building management components of the building in accordance with one or more operating parameters;
- using global analytics to compare via a processor at least some of the sensor data of the building and at least some of the sensor data from one or more other buildings to identify one or more anomalies associated with the operation of the building that is not directly attributable to outside environmental differences between the building and the one or more other buildings;
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- in response to identify one or more anomalies associated with the operation of the building, automatically outputting an alert.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.