Adaptive Edge Gateway Deployment for Building Data Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building management systems face challenges in efficiently managing and integrating data from diverse building subsystems, particularly in adapting to new devices and ensuring optimal resource allocation and communication protocols.
Innovation Solution
A building management system with adaptive edge processing that deploys gateway components to facilitate communication between cloud platforms and physical building devices, enabling data collection, integration, and adaptive resource management through device libraries and service relocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If data is pre-processed at edge devices before transmission to the cloud, then network bandwidth consumption is reduced and latency is decreased, but edge devices require more local computing resources and processing power
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the building management system into multiple edge devices (building automation controllers, security systems, HVAC controllers) that each perform localized data processing and filtering. This segmentation allows preprocessing to occur at the network edge without requiring a single powerful centralized processor, thus reducing latency while distributing computational complexity across multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between edge devices and the cloud platform, where data is filtered, aggregated, and pre-processed before transmission. This intermediary approach reduces the data volume sent to the cloud and enables local decision-making, thereby reducing latency for time-sensitive operations while maintaining manageable edge device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If more building systems and devices are integrated into the network, then system functionality and monitoring capability are improved, but network bandwidth consumption and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and filters out only the most relevant and critical data from the vast amount of data generated by integrated building systems. Edge devices perform data filtering and aggregation, extracting only essential information for transmission to the cloud, thereby maintaining comprehensive system integration while significantly reducing network bandwidth consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements local quality by allowing different edge devices to process and transmit data according to their specific functions and priorities. Critical systems like fire safety transmit data immediately with high priority, while non-critical systems like lighting control can buffer and batch their transmissions, optimizing network bandwidth usage while maintaining versatile system integration.
3Reliability
If data is transmitted continuously from edge devices to the cloud, then real-time monitoring and cloud-based analytics are improved, but network bandwidth is consumed and cloud processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by having edge devices transmit data at optimized intervals rather than continuously. Data transmission frequency is adjusted based on the criticality of the data source and current system conditions, enabling real-time monitoring of critical parameters while reducing overall network bandwidth consumption and cloud processing load.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the cloud platform sends configuration updates and threshold settings back to edge devices. Edge devices use this feedback to adjust their data transmission behavior dynamically, transmitting more frequently when anomalies are detected and less frequently during normal operation, thereby maintaining reliable monitoring while optimizing bandwidth usage.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.