Method and system for improving inspection, maintenance and/or operator efficiency of a building management system
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsAman Rai, Sai Sarada Eamandhi, Deepika Sandeep, Vishwanath Gupta, Sumesh Somarajan
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Abstract
Methods for improving operational efficiency include methods for improving inspection efficiency and methods for improving operator efficiency. A method includes determining an inspection efficiency of a plurality of inspectors inspecting devices of a building. A method includes determining an operator efficiency of a plurality of operators in resolving alarms generated by devices in a building. A method includes determining a device inspection score.
Claims20
A method for determining an inspection efficiency of a plurality of inspectors inspecting devices of a building, the method comprising:
- for each of a plurality of mobile devices carried by a respective one of the plurality of inspectors:
- displaying an indicator on a display of the corresponding mobile device that corresponds to each of one or more of a plurality of devices of the building;
- receiving a selection by the respective inspector of one of the plurality of devices via a user interface of the corresponding mobile device;
- capturing a time duration taken by the respective inspector to inspect the selected device;
- retrieving inspection data, wherein the inspection data includes, for each of the plurality of devices of the building:
- a device type;
- a device location;
- the time duration taken to inspect the respective device;
- determining an inspection zone score for each of a plurality of zones of the building, wherein the inspection zone score for each of the plurality of zones represents a ratio of a number of devices having a device location that is in the respective zone over a total number of devices in the plurality of zones of the building, divided by a ratio of a time duration taken to inspect the devices having a device location that is in the respective zone over a predetermined time allocated to inspect all of the devices in the building;
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- display on a dashboard the inspection zone score for one or more of the plurality of zones of the building.
A method for determining an inspection efficiency of a plurality of inspectors inspecting devices of a building, the method comprising:
- for each of a plurality of mobile devices carried by a respective one of the plurality of inspectors:
- displaying an indicator on a display of the corresponding mobile device that corresponds to each of one or more of a plurality of devices of the building;
- receiving a selection by the respective inspector of one of the plurality of devices via a user interface of the corresponding mobile device;
- capturing time stamps associated with inspection of the selected device;
- retrieving inspection data, wherein the inspection data includes, for each of a plurality of devices of the building:
- a device type;
- a device location;
- the time stamps associated with the inspection of each of the plurality of devices;
- determining an inspection device health score for each of the plurality of devices of the building, wherein the inspection device health score includes one or more of:
- a device under inspection score, which represents a degree at which the respective device was under inspected relative to a predetermined inspection schedule;
- a device over inspection score, which represents a degree at which the respective device was over inspected relative to the predetermined inspection schedule;
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- display on a dashboard the inspection device health score for one or more of the plurality of devices.
A method for determining an operator efficiency of a plurality of operators in resolving alarms generated by devices in a building, the method comprising:
- retrieving device data, wherein the device data includes, for each of a plurality of devices of the building:
- a device type;
- a device location;
- alarms generated by the respective device;
- a time duration taken to resolve each alarm of the respective device;
- an operator identifier that identifies a respective one of the plurality of operators that resolved each of the alarms of the device;
- determining an operator rank score for each of the plurality of operators, wherein each of the plurality of operators resolve a subset of the alarms generated by the plurality of devices of the building via a user interface of a monitoring station, and wherein the operator rank score for each operator represents a ratio of a cumulative time duration taken by the respective operator to resolve all of the alarms in the subset of the alarms generated by the plurality of devices of the building associated with the respective operator over a total number of alarms in the subset of the alarms generated by the plurality of devices of the building associated with the respective operator;
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- display on a dashboard the operator rank score for one or more of the plurality of operators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.