Building automation network
AssigneeSiemens Schweiz AG
InventorsThomas Gollackner, Michele Remonato, Mohit Soral
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a building automation network. The network may include an embedded edge device having a data interface and an edge digital service agent adapted to automatically fetch container images of configured containers via the data interface from a cloud-based container repository for deployment as a container application in a persistent memory and a container engine adapted to run the deployed container application for performing tasks in the building automation network.
Claims14
A building automation network comprising:
- an embedded edge device having a data interface and an edge digital service agent adapted to automatically fetch container images of configured containers via the data interface from a cloud-based container repository for deployment as a container application in a persistent memory;
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- a container engine adapted to run the deployed container application for performing tasks in the building automation network;
- wherein the deployed container application stored in the persistent memory is configured and updated by a centralized web user interface provided in the cloud;
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- the centralized web user interface is connected to a cloud-based container engine comprising a rule engine module adapted to validate automatically a configuration of the deployed container application configured or updated by means of the centralized web user interface.
A computer-implemented method for operating a building automation network of a building connected to a cloud via a data interface of an embedded edge device, the method comprising:
- configuring a container application using a central web user interface of the cloud;
- deploying the container application in a persistent memory of the embedded edge device;
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- running the deployed container application using a container engine of the embedded edge device;
- wherein the deployed container application stored in the persistent memory is configured and updated by a centralized web user interface provided in the cloud;
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- the centralized web user interface is connected to a cloud-based container engine comprising a rule engine module adapted to validate automatically a configuration of the deployed container application configured or updated by means of the centralized web user interface.
A building automation system comprising:
- a plurality of building devices;
- wherein at least one of the building devices includes an embedded edge device having a data interface and an edge digital service agent adapted to automatically fetch container images of configured containers via the data interface from a cloud-based container repository for deployment as a container application in a persistent memory;
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- a container engine adapted to run the deployed container application for performing tasks in the building automation system;
- wherein the deployed container application stored in the persistent memory is configured and updated by a centralized web user interface provided in the cloud;
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- the centralized web user interface is connected to a cloud-based container engine comprising a rule engine module adapted to validate automatically a configuration of the deployed container application configured or updated by means of the centralized web user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.