Building Automation Filter Interface for Intuitive Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building automation systems have complex user interfaces that require detailed knowledge of system hardware and lack intuitive control options, making it difficult for users to navigate and manage building operations effectively.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface system that allows users to create filter definitions and apply them to building automation data, providing task-based and outcome-focused controls, enabling intuitive interaction and overriding schedules or changing values with ease.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If detailed hardware knowledge and complex navigation hierarchies are provided in the user interface, then system control capability is improved, but user ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the user and the complex building automation system. This intermediary translates natural language user intents into system commands without requiring users to understand underlying hardware details or navigate complex hierarchies. The intermediary acts as a mediator that handles the complexity internally while presenting a simplified interface to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the traditional mechanical navigation hierarchy with an information-based system. Instead of requiring users to physically navigate through multiple menu levels and understand system architecture, the system uses information processing to interpret user intent and automatically locate and execute the appropriate control functions.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive system information is displayed to users, then system awareness is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential information needed for user decision-making from the comprehensive system data. Instead of displaying all available system information, the system selectively extracts and presents relevant data points that directly support user tasks, filtering out unnecessary complexity while maintaining system awareness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by providing different levels of information detail to different users or for different situations. The interface adapts the amount and type of information displayed based on user needs, context, and task requirements, rather than presenting uniform comprehensive information to all users.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for filtering items to be displayed on a graphical user interface provided to a client and for interaction by a user, the graphical user interface for a building automation system, is provided. The system includes a processor and memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory includes computer code for allowing the user to create a filter definition via a computer based form. The memory further includes computer code for saving the created filter definition to memory and computer code for applying the saved filter definition to a set of building automation system data items. The memory yet further includes computer code for generating the graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including results of the applied filter definition.