Building Visualization Model for Flexible Asset Data Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building management systems face challenges in efficiently aggregating and processing data due to time-consuming software development and lack of flexibility, with output data being difficult for users to conceptualize and relate to physical building components.
Innovation Solution
A building management system that ingests external information via APIs or SDKs, cross-correlates identifiers with graphical models to determine asset locations, and displays these models on user devices, enabling flexible adaptation to changing circumstances.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional building management systems aggregate and store building data, then data can be processed and controlled, but the development and deployment of analytic and control algorithms become time-consuming and require significant software development
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital twin (virtual copy) of the building that replicates the physical building's structure, components, and data relationships. This digital replica enables algorithms to be developed, tested, and deployed in the virtual environment before being applied to actual building data, significantly reducing software development time and improving data processing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and structuring building data within the digital twin model before actual analysis is needed. The digital twin pre-establishes the relationships between building components and their data, so when analytics are required, the processing is already optimized and ready, reducing the time needed for algorithm deployment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If analytic and control algorithms are developed for building management, then building equipment can be controlled, but the algorithms lack flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances in the building
Solution Approach 1:
The digital twin is designed as a dynamic model that can be updated and modified as the building changes over time. New components, renovations, or operational changes in the physical building are reflected in the digital twin, allowing algorithms to automatically adapt to changing circumstances without requiring complete re-development, thus improving flexibility while managing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital twin serves multiple functions: it acts as a data repository, a simulation environment, a visualization tool, and a control interface. This multi-functionality allows the same underlying model to support various analytics and control algorithms, increasing versatility without proportionally increasing complexity for each individual algorithm.
3Ease of operation
If building data is processed through analytic algorithms, then control decisions can be made, but the output data is hard for users to conceptualize and relate to physical building components
Solution Approach 1:
The digital twin acts as an intermediary between the complex analytical algorithms and the end user. It translates abstract algorithmic outputs into visual representations that are anchored to the familiar physical building model, allowing users to conceptualize and understand data in the context of actual building components, spaces, and systems without losing contextual information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms one-dimensional numerical data outputs from algorithms into three-dimensional visual representations within the digital twin model. By mapping data to spatial locations, component geometries, and visual hierarchies in the virtual building, users can intuitively grasp complex information through spatial and visual context rather than abstract numbers.
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AI summary
A building system including one or more storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to ingest external information from an external computing system via at least one of an external access application programming interface (API) component or a software development kit (SDK) component, cross-correlate a first identifier associated with the external information with one or more second identifiers associated with one or more virtual assets of a graphical model of a building to determine a location of a virtual asset associated with the external information within the graphical model, cause the graphical model of the building to include a representation of the external information associated with the virtual asset, and cause a display device of a user device to display the graphical model.