Agent-Based Building Management Simulation for Real-Time Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building management systems (BMS) face challenges in integrating diverse systems and devices, leading to pre-programmed reactions that can cause unintended situations due to their scripted nature, limiting adaptability and optimization.
Innovation Solution
An agent-based simulation system that generates space, equipment, and control agents to communicate and optimize environmental conditions, allowing for dynamic control and integration of various building systems, enabling goal-oriented optimization and agile deployment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If pre-programmed scripted reactions are used in BMS, then system response speed is improved, but adaptability and optimization capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static, pre-programmed BMS into a dynamic system using multi-agent simulation where control parameters and strategies can adapt in real-time based on changing building conditions, occupancy patterns, and environmental factors, resolving the contradiction between fast response and adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The simulation system enables self-service optimization by automatically analyzing building operations data and generating optimized control strategies without requiring manual reprogramming, allowing the system to adapt while maintaining rapid response capabilities
2Adaptability or versatility
If diverse building systems and devices are integrated, then system functionality is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex building management system into independent, modular agents (HVAC agents, lighting agents, security agents, etc.) that can be simulated and controlled separately, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining full functionality through agent interactions
Solution Approach 2:
The multi-agent simulation platform serves as a universal tool that can model and optimize diverse building systems simultaneously, providing a single integrated environment for analyzing HVAC, lighting, security, and other subsystems without requiring separate complex integration for each
3Extent of automation
If pre-programmed control actions are implemented, then automation level is improved, but unintended situations and errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by using the multi-agent simulation to predict and evaluate the outcomes of automated control decisions before implementing them in the actual building management system, allowing potential errors and unintended situations to be identified and corrected in advance
Solution Approach 2:
The simulation system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the results of automated control actions are analyzed and used to refine future control strategies, improving reliability by continuously learning from past performance and adjusting automated responses to avoid recurring errors
Data Source
AI summary
A system for a building management system simulation includes one or more processors and memory. The memory includes instructions stored thereon, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate a space agent representing a space in a building, the space agent to maintain an environmental condition of the space based on an optimization state of the space, generate an equipment agent representing a device that serves the space, and register the space agent and the equipment agent to a space communication channel associated with the space. The space agent communicates with the equipment agent over the space communication channel.