US 12,487,808 B2Granted

Methods for configuring and commissioning a building system with a brokering architecture

AssigneeTyco Fire & Security GmbH

InventorsAndrew J. Przybylski, Jon T. Mueller, John H. Burroughs, Daniel Brandt

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed that create a deployment package for commissioning of a building control system. The deployment package may include a series of automated validation sequences that ensure each equipment and/or device is properly configured and installed. A validation sequence is performed, and the behavior is compared to expected behavior for the sequence. A brokering architecture facilitates the commissioning by providing a fixed schema to all applications communicating over the message bus, thus standardizing the deployment package and the validation sequences. Correlations between data may be found and used when data is missing in the same or similar equipment.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for configuring devices of a distributed building automation system, the method comprising:

receiving a first set of information defining equipment the distributed building automation system controls or monitors;
receiving a control or monitoring application defining a plurality of calculations required to control and monitor a building;
receiving a second set of information defining available compute resources available to perform the plurality of calculations and perform communications within the distributed building automation system;
calculating an estimate based on the first set of information, the second set of information, and the control or monitoring application, the estimate related to an amount of processing power required to perform the communications and the plurality of calculations defined by the control or monitoring application, wherein calculating the estimate comprises running a simulation of the control or monitoring application and recording the amount of processing power required such that the amount of processing power represents compute requirements of the control or monitoring application;
selecting, based on the estimate, a compute resource of the available compute resources to perform at least one calculation of the plurality of calculations;
and
generating a deployable software image capable of configuring the compute resource to perform the at least one calculation.

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A method for configuring devices of a distributed building automation system, the method comprising:

receiving a control or monitoring application defining a plurality of calculations to control or monitor a building;
receiving a set of information defining available compute resources to perform the plurality of calculations within the distributed building automation system;
estimating an amount of processing power required to execute the control or monitoring application by running a simulation of the control or monitoring application and recording the amount of processing power required to execute the control or monitoring application in the simulation, wherein the amount of processing power represents compute requirements of the control or monitoring application;
selecting, based on the set of information and the estimated amount of processing power required to execute the control or monitoring application, a compute resource of the available compute resources to perform at least one calculation of the plurality of calculations;
and
generating a deployable software image capable of configuring the compute resource to perform the at least one calculation.

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A system for configuring devices of a distributed building automation system, the system comprising:

one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving a control or monitoring application defining a plurality of calculations to control or monitor a building;
receiving a set of information defining available compute resources to perform the plurality of calculations within the distributed building automation system;
estimating an amount of processing power required to execute the control or monitoring application by running a simulation of the control or monitoring application and recording the amount of processing power required to execute the control or monitoring application in the simulation, wherein the amount of processing power represents compute requirements of the control or monitoring application;
selecting, based on the set of information and the estimated amount of processing power required to execute the control or monitoring application, a compute resource of the available compute resources to perform at least one calculation of the plurality of calculations;
and
generating a deployable software image capable of configuring the compute resource to perform the at least one calculation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/882,683Filed 11 Sep 2024 · us provisional application
Priority: 12 Sep 2023
Published: US 2025/0085953 A113 Mar 2025
Granted: 2 Dec 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

G06F 11/2023
Where processing functionality is redundant: failover techniques
G05B 13/021
Not using a model or a simulator of the controlled system: in which a variable is automatically adjusted to optimise the performance
G05B 15/02
Systems controlled by a computer: electric
G05B 23/0216
Characterized by the configuration of the monitoring system: human interface functionality, e.g. monitoring system providing help to the user in…