Bridge Device for Cloud-Based Building Air Quality Data Collection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Legacy building management systems are inadequate in managing high-volume data, lack modern functionalities, and fail to provide optimized wellness, comfort, and energy solutions, requiring intensive manual adjustments and lacking cloud-processing, interconnectivity, and integrated safety and wellness controls.
Innovation Solution
A bridge device connected to multiple sensor devices, capable of wireless communication using an air-quality communication protocol, periodically discovers and queries sensor readings, encapsulates data into frames, and sends them to a remote server for cloud-level processing and management, enabling efficient data collection and automated responses to energy market and grid data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If legacy building management systems are used for data collection and environmental control, then basic thermostat control and remote shutoff functions are provided, but the systems are ill-suited for high-volume data processing and lack cloud-processing capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud server as an intermediary between building management devices and data processors. The cloud server receives high-volume data from multiple building systems, performs centralized processing and analysis, then returns actionable insights. This mediator approach allows legacy building systems to gain cloud-processing capabilities without requiring complex local hardware upgrades at each building site.
2Measurement precision
If manual calibration and re-calibration of sensor and regulator devices is performed, then measurement accuracy is maintained, but prohibitively large outlay of time and effort is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements automated feedback mechanisms where sensors continuously monitor environmental parameters and the system automatically adjusts regulator devices based on predefined thresholds and algorithms. This closed-loop feedback system maintains measurement accuracy and operational precision without requiring manual calibration, as the system self-corrects deviations through automated control actions triggered by sensor feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The building management system performs self-calibration and self-adjustment using embedded algorithms that automatically compensate for drift and maintain accuracy. The system uses historical data patterns and real-time sensor readings to autonomously recalibrate sensors and adjust regulator settings, eliminating the need for manual calibration efforts while maintaining measurement precision.
3Adaptability or versatility
If legacy systems are used for building control, then basic environmental control is achieved, but optimized wellness, comfort, and energy solutions cannot be provided
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal building management platform that integrates multiple functions including wellness monitoring, comfort control, and energy optimization into a single system. The cloud-based platform can simultaneously manage air quality sensors, temperature controls, humidity regulation, and energy consumption analysis across diverse building types and scales, providing multi-functional capabilities that legacy single-purpose systems cannot achieve.
Data Source
AI summary
A bridge device operable in an air-quality control system is provided. The bridge device is connected to a plurality of sensor devices and includes a radio circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with the plurality of sensor devices over a wireless medium using an air-quality communication protocol; a transceiver configured to communicate with a remote server; a processing circuitry; a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the bridge device to: periodically discover the plurality of sensor devices connected to the bridge device; query each of the discovered senor devices to read at least one senor reading provided by each sensor device, the at least one senor reading is of at least an air-quality level in a vicinity of the sensor device; encapsulate the sensor readings from the plurality of sensor devices into a data frame; and send the data frame to the remote server.