US 2019/0097835 A1Published application

System and methods for cloud-based monitoring and control of physical environments

AssigneePhilips Lighting Holding B.V.

InventorsSANJAY BHAT, LEE BROWN, MARCIN GRAMZA, MARCIN KLECHA, LOKESH NARAYAN RAJ URS, NATARAJAN GANAPATHY SUBRAMANIAN, WIJNAND JOHANNES RIETMAN, JURGEN MARIO VANGEEL, MARK HENRICUS VERBERKT, ROBERT ADRIANUS HENDRIK VAN TWIST

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Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for cloud-based monitoring and control of physical environments. A system comprises a computing cloud with at least one processor configured to execute one or more application modules and a data analytics module for analyzing diagnostic and environmental metric data. The system further comprises a building server communicatively coupled with the computing cloud, at least one gateway communicatively coupled with the building server, and at least one system device communicatively coupled with the at least one gateway. The at least one system device generates environmental metric data for further analysis and display, and the data is communicated to the computing cloud by way of the at least one gateway and the at least one building server.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A system for monitoring physical environments comprising:

a computing cloud comprising:
at least one processor configured to execute one or more application modules for interactively displaying project data, and a data analytics module for analyzing diagnostic data and environmental metric data, and
one or more data storage units, configured to store at least one of project data, device data, user data, diagnostic data and environmental metric data;
at least one building server communciatively coupled with the computing cloud, the building server comprising a first data collection module configured to receive at least environmental metric data from at least one gateway, and to communicate the received data to the computing cloud;
the at least one gateway communicatively coupled with the building server, the gateway comprising a second data collection module configured to receive at least environmental metric data from at least one system device, and to communicate the received data to the at least one building server;
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the at least one system device communcatively coupled with the at least one gateway, and comprising at least a sensor configured to generate the environmental metric data, an actuator, and a metric reporting module configured to communicate the generated environmental metric data to the at least one gateway, wherein the project data comprises at least one project hierarchy, the at least one project hierarchy being associated with at least one site, the at least one site being associated with at least one building, the at least one building being associated at least one floor, the at least one floor being associated with the at least one system device.

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The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more application modules comprise at least one of:

a user management application module configured to create user accounts for at least a user, and to assign one or more credentials to the user account, the credentials comprising at least a role and login information comprising a username and a password;
a system users application module configured to manage a user's access rights to the project data based at least on the user's credentials;
a system project application module configured to manage a user's access to other application modules based at least on the user's credentials, and to allow a user to graphically explore the at least one project hierarchy, the exploration being limited at least by the user's credentials;
a system intake application module configured to graphically facilitate, for an appropriately credentialed user, the manipulation of a virtual model of a building that is associated with the at least one project hierarchy;
a system map application module configured to enable an appropriately credentialed user to commission, localize and/or deploy one or more system devices;
a system energy application module configured to graphically depict, to an appropriately credentialed user, analyzed data produced by the data analytics module, the analysis being conducted using at least one of the sensic diagnostic data, the building server diagnostic data, the gateway diagnostic data and the environmental metric data;
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a system operations application module configured to remotely manage indications of system errors, the system errors comprising errors in system device operation, errors in environmental metric data collection or analysis, and errors in commissioning, localization or deployment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.