System and Method for Auto-Configuration of Devices in BIM Using Bluetooth Low Energy Devices

An apparatus comprising:

• a security system that secures a predetermined geographic area;
• a building information model (BIM) defined by a set of geographic coordinates of the secured area embodied in a memory;
• a plurality of security devices located within the secured area where each of the plurality of security devices has a short range wireless transceiver and at least one of the plurality of security devices is a control panel of the security system;
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• a portable user device having a wireless transceiver, a global positioning system (GPS) and a programmed processor that interrogates the short range wireless transceiver of each of the plurality of security devices for identification and functional information of the security device as a user of the portable user device traverses the secured area and saves the identification and functional information along with geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of security devices into a memory.

An apparatus comprising:

• a security system that secures a predetermined geographic area;
• a building information model (BIM) defined by a map of the secured geographic area embodied in a memory;
• a plurality of security devices located within the secured area where each of the plurality of security devices has a short range wireless transceiver and at least one of the plurality of security devices is a control panel of the security system;
• a portable user device having a wireless transceiver, a global positioning system (GPS) and a programmed processor, the programmed processor detects each of the plurality of security devices as a user of the portable user device traverses the secured area and interrogates the short range wireless transceiver of the security device for identification and functional information via the wireless transceiver, the programmable processor also detects a geographic location of the security device via the GPS;
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• a processor that incorporates each of the plurality of security devices into the map of the security system based upon the geographic location of the security device.