Configuration of systems with applications for small and medium buildings
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsNagasree Poluri, Prabhat Ranjan, Gutha Stalin Sanghamitra, Shriram Sankaran, Foong Yeen Chan
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Abstract
A system that accommodates such high number of input/output (I/O) terminals of a single big complex application, by splitting the application into smaller, logical fixed applications so that each application can be deployed in one small controller that small and medium buildings can afford. This system also has a feature of an easy and intuitive way of installing, configuring and commissioning these multiple controllers for a single application by abstracting the complexity of entire application/program logic.
Claims20
A building management system comprising:
- a comprehensive building management software application that is an operational application for controlling building systems;
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- one or more specialized building management software applications derived from the comprehensive building management software application by extracting a subset of control functionality from the comprehensive building management software application, wherein each specialized building management software application comprises a subset of functionality of the comprehensive building management software application;
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- wherein:
- each specialized building management software application is deployed to execute independently in a respective small electronic controller for managing building system parameters;
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- each small electronic controller has a number of physical input/output (I/O) terminals less than a number of physical input/output (I/O) terminals of a large electronic controller, and the comprehensive building management software application is deployed in the large electronic controller.
A mobile configuration system, comprising:
- a mobile software application;
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- one or more specialized building management software applications that are derived from a comprehensive building management software application that is an operational application for controlling building systems, wherein the one or more specialized building management software applications are generated by dividing the comprehensive building management software application, wherein each specialized building management software application comprises a subset of functionality of the comprehensive building management software application;
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- wherein:
- each specialized building management software application is deployed to execute independently in one small electronic controller;
- the comprehensive building management software application is deployed in a large electronic controller;
- each small electronic controller has a number of physical input/output (I/O) terminals less than a number of physical input/output (I/O) terminals of the large electronic controller;
- the mobile software application is used to remotely configure and commission the specialized building management software applications on respective small electronic controllers.
A method for installing, configuring and commissioning a building management system using a mobile phone, comprising:
- dividing a comprehensive building management software application that is an operational application for controlling building systems into a plurality of specialized building management software applications by extracting subsets of control functionality from the comprehensive building management software application, wherein each specialized building management software comprises a subset of functionality of the comprehensive building management software application and includes configuration parameters that enable the specialized building management software application to execute on one electronic controller;
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- wherein each specialized building management software application is developed such that inputs for control operation are designed as physical inputs and inter-application communication is achieved via data point sharing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.