Building Automation Event Translation to Mobile Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building automation systems limit user interaction to specific locations, preventing remote monitoring and control of facility events, such as alarms or warnings, which restricts user awareness and response outside the control room.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that translate building automation events into mobile notifications, allowing users to receive and respond to events on mobile devices via a cloud-based platform, enabling remote interaction and awareness through push notifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users interact with building automation systems only in control rooms, then system complexity is reduced and notifications are centralized, but user mobility is restricted and remote monitoring capability is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new spatial dimension for system interaction by enabling access through mobile devices outside the control room. This transforms the system from a location-bound interface to a distributed access architecture, allowing users to interact with building automation events from any location while maintaining centralized notification management.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces mobile devices as intermediary components between users and the building automation system. These devices receive notifications from the centralized system and present them to users, acting as a bridge that extends access capability without requiring direct connection to the control room infrastructure.
2Loss of time
If building automation events are monitored only in centralized locations, then notification management is simplified, but response time for remote events increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by proactively pushing notifications to mobile devices before users need to check the control room system. Events are detected and notifications are delivered to users' devices in advance, enabling them to respond immediately regardless of location, thus reducing overall response time.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system transitions from static centralized display to dynamic mobile delivery. Notifications are actively pushed to moving users based on their location and availability, adapting the delivery mechanism to user mobility patterns rather than requiring users to return to fixed monitoring locations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users remain in control rooms to monitor events, then system security is maintained and notifications are centralized, but operational flexibility and remote awareness are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copies of notification information and delivers them to multiple mobile devices simultaneously. Instead of requiring all users to be physically present at the control room to access event information, identical notification data is replicated and distributed to authorized users' devices, maintaining information availability without centralizing user presence.
Data Source
AI summary
Devices, methods, and systems for translating building automation events into mobile notifications are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a notification of an event from a building automation system, translate the event into a mobile notification of the event, and transmit the mobile notification of the event to a mobile device.