Building Incident Response Using Cloud DART Risk Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current building management systems face delays in providing optimal responses to incidents due to the need for extensive data processing and analysis, which is often hindered by limited access to resources such as electrical power, network availability, and bandwidth, especially in rapidly developing incidents.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a cloud-based incident response system using digital analytic response twins (DARTs) that models potential incidents and responses in real-time, allowing for immediate transmission of artificial intelligence-based corrective actions to on-premises building devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If extensive data processing and analysis are performed locally in building management systems, then response accuracy and reliability are improved, but response time and productivity deteriorate due to resource constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex data processing and analysis functions from the local building management system and relocates them to a remote cloud-based facility. This allows the local system to retain only essential monitoring and control functions, while the remote facility handles intensive analytical workloads, thereby resolving the contradiction between local reliability and overall response time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication network as an intermediary between the local building management system and the remote analytical facility. This intermediary enables real-time data exchange and coordinated operation, allowing the local system to benefit from remote processing power without sacrificing response accuracy, thus resolving the time-reliability contradiction.
2Reliability
If more computational resources are allocated locally for incident analysis, then response quality is improved, but system complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex computational resources required for incident analysis from the local building management system and concentrates them in a remote facility. This extraction reduces local system complexity while maintaining response quality through the remote facility's advanced processing capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal remote analytical facility that can serve multiple building management systems simultaneously. This multi-functional facility handles incident analysis for various buildings through the communication network, reducing the need for each individual system to maintain complex local analytical resources.
3Speed
If real-time data processing is performed locally, then incident response speed is improved, but energy consumption and resource availability worsen due to limited power and bandwidth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts energy-intensive data processing operations from the local building management system and relocates them to a remote facility with unlimited power and bandwidth resources. This extraction maintains incident response speed through real-time network communication while eliminating local energy consumption constraints.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the building management system's analytical functions in the remote facility. This virtual copy processes data in real-time through the communication network, providing the same incident response speed as local processing would achieve, but without the energy consumption and resource availability limitations of local hardware.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for responding to incidents in a building are provided. One method includes performing operations including retrieving data relating to one or more on-premises building devices of the building, determining the incident relating to the one or more on-premises building devices, and determining a plurality of potential responses to the incident. The operations further include analyzing the plurality of potential responses and determining relative risks of the potential responses to the incident and transmitting, to a first on-premises building device of the on-premises building devices, data indicating the incident and at least one of the plurality of potential responses based on the relative risks of the potential responses.