Integrated Building and Asset Platform With AI Energy Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack integration of asset and maintenance management, building management, energy management, and artificial intelligence into a unified platform, limiting their ability to adapt to the needs of industrial or service sector companies and manage various processes and equipment effectively.
Innovation Solution
A digital platform integrating automation systems with four modules: a monitoring, management, and control module, an asset and maintenance management module, an energy efficiency module, and an artificial intelligence module, which collect and analyze data from sensors, automate actions, and manage maintenance and energy efficiency through a gateway, enabling seamless correlation and integration of these disciplines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple standalone systems (equipment maintenance, building management, energy management) are used separately, then each system can be optimized independently, but the overall system integration and adaptability to company needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple standalone management systems (equipment maintenance management, building management, energy management) into a single integrated digital platform. This merging allows the system to adapt to company needs across all these disciplines simultaneously, resolving the contradiction by achieving versatility through integration rather than through separate optimized systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital platform is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle asset and maintenance management, building management, energy management, and artificial intelligence applications within a single system. This universal design enables the platform to serve multiple purposes and adapt to various company needs while maintaining a unified architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a unified digital platform integrating multiple disciplines is implemented, then adaptability and overall management capability improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated digital platform is segmented into distinct functional modules including asset and maintenance management module, building management module, energy management module, and artificial intelligence module. Each module handles specific disciplines independently while communicating through the unified platform, thereby managing complexity through modular design while maintaining integration capabilities.
3Productivity
If comprehensive data collection and analysis across multiple disciplines is performed, then actionable insights and system performance improve, but data processing requirements and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway serves as an intermediary component that collects data from sensors across multiple disciplines, performs initial processing and filtering, and then distributes relevant data to appropriate modules. This intermediary function reduces the overall data volume that needs to be processed by each module while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities, thereby improving system performance without proportionally increasing resource requirements.
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AI summary
The present invention pertains to an automation system for asset and maintenance management, building management, and energy management, comprising four interconnected modules. The first module functions as a monitoring, management, and control module for devices; the second module serves as an artificial intelligence module; the third module operates as an energy efficiency module, and the fourth module functions as an asset and maintenance management module.