Building Visualization for False Alarm Likelihood in Fire Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building management systems face challenges in developing and deploying analytic and control algorithms that are time-consuming and lack flexibility, with output data being difficult for users to conceptualize in relation to physical building components, and there is a need for improved data visualization and management of building systems, including fire suppression and safety information.
Innovation Solution
A building system that ingests device information to determine false alarm likelihoods, generates graphical models, and provides augmented reality overlays for safety and security alarms, allowing users to visualize and interact with building data through a user interface, including highlighting fire suppression systems and security information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional analytic and control algorithms are developed and deployed in building management systems, then system functionality is achieved, but development time and software complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital twin (virtual copy) of the building that replicates physical components and their relationships. This digital model allows analytics and control operations to be performed on the copy rather than requiring complex software development for each physical system, significantly reducing development time while maintaining full system functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital twin acts as an intermediary between physical building components and the building management system. Instead of directly programming complex control algorithms for physical devices, the system uses the digital twin as a mediator to simulate, analyze, and optimize building operations, reducing software development complexity.
2Ease of operation
If traditional analytic and control algorithms are used, then system operations are controlled, but flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The digital twin is designed to be dynamic and adaptable, allowing the virtual model to be updated and reconfigured as building conditions change. This enables the system to adapt to new scenarios, changing circumstances, and evolving requirements without requiring extensive software redevelopment, maintaining ease of operation while improving flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital twin serves multiple functions including simulation, analysis, optimization, and training. This universal platform can handle various building management tasks and adapt to different scenarios, providing both ease of operation and high flexibility through a single multi-functional system.
3Loss of information
If detailed building data is processed and visualized, then comprehensive information is provided, but user comprehension of physical components becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The digital twin creates a virtual representation that preserves all detailed building data and relationships while presenting them in a simplified, interactive format. Users can explore the comprehensive information through the intuitive digital model rather than dealing with raw data, maintaining information completeness while improving user comprehension.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms complex building data into a three-dimensional virtual model that adds spatial and contextual dimensions to the information. This dimensional transformation allows users to comprehend detailed building data more easily by visualizing it in an intuitive 3D environment rather than abstract tables or diagrams.
4Reliability
If fire suppression and security systems are integrated, then comprehensive safety monitoring is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The digital twin merges fire suppression, security, and other building systems into a single unified virtual model. This consolidation allows comprehensive safety monitoring through one integrated interface rather than managing separate complex systems, reducing perceived complexity while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital twin platform provides a universal interface that handles multiple safety and security functions through a single system. This multi-functional approach integrates fire suppression, security monitoring, and other systems without requiring separate complex management structures, achieving comprehensive safety monitoring with reduced operational complexity.
Data Source
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 device information associated with one or more devices within a building; determine a false alarm likelihood within one or more areas within the building based on the device information; cause a graphical model of the building to include an indication of the false alarm likelihood within the one or more areas of the building; and cause a display device of a user device to display the graphical model within a user interface.