Systems and methods for detecting and using equipment location in a building management system

A method for assigning relationships between building management system (BMS) devices, the method comprising:

• automatically determining, by a processing circuit, a physical location of a first BMS device and a physical location of a plurality of other BMS devices using location information measured at the physical locations;
• identifying a type of the first BMS device and the plurality of other BMS devices;
• identifying one or more of the other BMS devices as potentially related to the first BMS device based on the type of the first BMS device, wherein the first BMS device is a sensor configured to measure an environmental condition within a building zone and one or more of the identified BMS devices are configured to affect the environmental condition measured by the first BMS device;
• ranking each identified BMS device based on a physical distance between the first BMS device and the identified BMS device, wherein the physical distance is a function of the physical location of the first BMS device and the physical location of the identified BMS device;
• generating an association between the first BMS device and one of the other BMS devices based on a result of the ranking;
• and
• controlling the building zone by operating the one of the other BMS devices to affect the environmental condition measured by the first BMS device.

A system for detecting and using equipment location in a building management system, the system comprising:

• a processing circuit configured to receive measured location information, wherein the measured location information is obtained by one or more measurement devices at a physical location of building equipment in a building management system, wherein the one or more measurement devices are components of the building equipment;
• wherein the processing circuit is configured to automatically determine the physical location of the building equipment in the building management system using the measured location information;
• wherein the processing circuit is configured to integrate the physical location of the building equipment with an architectural model of a building serviced by the building management system;
• wherein the processing circuit is configured to generate a graphical visualization of the building equipment integrated with the architectural model of the building, wherein the building equipment is displayed in the graphical visualization at the physical location determined by the processing circuit;
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• wherein the processing circuit is configured to generate an augmented reality display of the building equipment, the augmented reality display comprising a view of the graphical visualization of the building equipment from a perspective of a mobile device superimposed over a camera-derived view of the building from the perspective of the mobile device.