Control System Having an Adjacent Electronic Display for Auto Labeling and Guided Wiring
AssigneePassiveLogic, Inc.
InventorsTroy Aaron Harvey, Jeremy David Fillingim
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Abstract
A controller is described with an adjacent electronic display which allows users to input building plans, and to design where devices (e.g., equipment and sensors) are to go. The controller has access to databases of the devices including wiring diagrams and protocols, such that the controller can automatically create a wiring diagram that can be used to wire the building and the controller. The adjacent display can be moved to show controller wiring, while the display shows a wiring diagram which describes a diagram of the controller wiring including devices that are connected, and wiring information about the devices.
Claims20
A controller comprising:
- a housing;
- computer hardware and a programmable memory attached to the housing;
- a moveable interactive screen attached to the housing controlled by the computer hardware and programmable memory;
- a side surface of the housing with a controller terminal attachment;
- the moveable interactive screen operationally able to display a representation of the controller terminal attachment;
- the controller operationally able to allow a user to define a parameter of the representation of the controller terminal attachment using the moveable interactive screen;
- the controller operationally able to allow the user to label the parameter, creating a labeled parameter using the moveable interactive screen;
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- the moveable interactive screen able to move such that the controller terminal attachment, the representation of the controller terminal attachment displayed on the moveable interactive screen, and the labeled parameter displayed on the moveable interactive screen can be seen simultaneously.
A controller comprising:
- a housing with an inside and an outside;
- computer hardware and a programmable memory attached to the housing;
- a moveable interactive screen attached to the housing, configurable such that the housing inside is displayed in a moveable interactive screen position and that the housing inside is hidden in another moveable interactive screen position, the controller operationally able to display images on the moveable interactive screen;
- A controller attachment on an inside surface of the housing operationally able to connect with a module attachment;
- the module attachment operationally able to be connected to a controller terminal attachment such that the controller attachment is operationally able to be connected to the controller terminal attachment through the module attachment;
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- the controller is operationally able to display, on the moveable interactive screen, a representation of the controller terminal attachment, a representation of a module operationally able to be attached to the controller attachment, and a representation of a device operationally attached to the module attachment.
A building controller system with a processor and memory, comprising:
- a controller, the controller with an inside and an outside,
- the controller with device connections mounted on the inside;
- the device connections operationally able to couple to devices;
- a moveable screen operatively coupled to the controller, the moveable screen operationally able to move such that the inside of the controller is displayed and move such that the inside of the controller is hidden;
- the controller configured to display, on the moveable screen, representations of devices attached to the controller;
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- the controller configured to modify, on the moveable screen, the representations of the devices attached to the controller creating a modified representation, the modified representation used for controlling subsequent operation and/or functionality of the device connections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.