Smart Building Agent Communication for Scalable Entity Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing amount of data from smart building environments poses a challenge for effective analysis, as existing building management systems lack efficient methods to communicate and manage data from various physical entities and spaces, leading to suboptimal control and management of building functions.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an agent-entity based communication system, where agents are generated to communicate and perform operations on physical building entities through agent communication channels, allowing for data ingestion, entity creation, and anomaly detection using time series data, enabling efficient data management and control within the building management system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If traditional building management systems are used to collect and manage data from building entities, then data collection capability is maintained, but data analysis efficiency deteriorates due to the exponential increase in data volume
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the building management functionality into multiple independent agents, each responsible for specific building entities or functions. This segmentation allows parallel processing of data from different sources, improving overall data analysis efficiency while handling large volumes of building data
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an agent-based intermediary layer between building entities and the central management system. These agents pre-process and filter data locally before transmission, reducing the computational burden on centralized systems and improving data analysis efficiency for large-scale building operations
2Adaptability or versatility
If more building entities and devices are integrated into the smart building environment, then system functionality and control capability are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides complex building management into multiple independent agents, each handling specific entities or functions. This modular approach allows high adaptability and versatility while maintaining manageable complexity through clear separation of responsibilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal agent framework that can handle multiple building entities and functions through a common architecture. Each agent can be configured to manage different building components, providing versatility without requiring separate complex systems for each function
Data Source
AI summary
A building management system of a building includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate agents, each agent of the agents paired with one entity of a plurality of entities of an entity database, wherein the entity database includes relationships between the entities, wherein the entities represent physical building entities of the building comprising building equipment or building spaces. The instructions cause the one or more processors to communicate, by the plurality of agents, data of the physical building entities via a plurality of agent communication channels and perform, by the plurality of agents, one or more operations for the plurality of entities based on the data.