Building Automation Notification System with Context Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current building automation systems lack efficient detection capabilities for non-optimal performance or failures, and existing notification systems provide limited context, making it time-consuming for users to analyze and resolve issues due to brief and limited alarm notifications.
Innovation Solution
A system that enables configurable conditions for monitoring building automation systems, allowing for complex user-defined event notifications that include system context data such as real-time and historical data, enabling detailed analysis and reporting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If simple alarm notifications are used, then the notification system is simple and quick to implement, but the context information provided is limited and requires additional time for analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures multiple data sources and determines their relevance to alarm conditions in advance. When an alarm is triggered, the notification already includes pre-fetched context data from relevant sources, eliminating the need for users to manually gather information and reducing analysis time while providing comprehensive context.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes feedback loops between alarm conditions and context data sources. When specific alarm conditions are detected, the system automatically retrieves and includes relevant context information from configured data sources in the notification, ensuring that users receive both the alarm alert and the necessary diagnostic information together.
2Reliability
If complex user-defined conditions are implemented, then the detection capability for non-optimal performance is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides complex monitoring conditions into separate, independently configurable alarm conditions. Each alarm condition can be configured and managed separately, allowing users to build up comprehensive monitoring coverage through multiple simple conditions rather than one complex condition, thereby improving detection capability without proportionally increasing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides a universal alarm notification framework that can handle both simple and complex alarm conditions through the same infrastructure. The configurable notification system works with any alarm condition type, allowing the system to maintain simplicity in its core architecture while providing enhanced detection capabilities through flexible condition configuration.
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AI summary
A system or mechanism for monitoring a building automation system through configurable conditions that indicate non-optimal performance or failure of building equipment. The mechanism may deliver notifications when the conditions are triggered. The mechanism may enable complex conditions and arbitrary user defined contents providing a context of the system to be delivered as notifications of data to configured recipients. The mechanism may enable a configuring event including not only user defined system context data as part of the event notification but also complex user defined conditions as needed.