Building Management Protocols for Adaptive Sustainability Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building management systems lack the ability to effectively set and achieve sustainability goals, such as reducing carbon emissions or energy consumption, due to inadequate monitoring and control of building equipment and lack of adaptive protocols for equipment changes or faults.
Innovation Solution
A building management system that includes processors to set sustainability goals, generate energy conservation protocols, and implement actions to achieve these goals, while adapting to equipment changes and faults, and providing user interfaces for monitoring and updating protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If building management systems implement comprehensive monitoring and control of building equipment, then sustainability performance improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments sustainability management into discrete energy conservation protocols, each addressing specific equipment or functions. These protocols can be independently developed, implemented, and monitored, allowing comprehensive sustainability control without requiring monolithic system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts energy conservation protocols based on equipment changes, faults, and performance data. Protocols are automatically updated and reconfigured in response to real-time conditions, enabling the system to maintain effectiveness without proportional increases in complexity.
2Reliability
If building management systems generate and implement multiple energy conservation protocols, then sustainability goals are achieved, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates, implements, and adjusts energy conservation protocols without requiring manual intervention for each protocol. The BMS autonomously monitors equipment status, detects changes, and reconfigures protocols accordingly, reducing operational burden while maintaining comprehensive sustainability management.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages multiple protocols by varying parameters such as priority levels, activation conditions, and target values rather than requiring fundamentally different protocol structures. This parameter-based approach allows diverse sustainability strategies to be implemented through a unified framework.
3Adaptability or versatility
If building management systems continuously monitor and update energy conservation protocols, then adaptability to equipment changes improves, but loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs feedback mechanisms where sustainability performance data and equipment status information continuously flow back to the BMS. This feedback enables automatic protocol adjustment and optimization without requiring manual data collection or analysis, maintaining adaptability while reducing information management burden through automated closed-loop control.
Data Source
AI summary
A building management system (BMS) can include one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices can store instructions. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, can cause the one or more processors to obtain a sustainability goal established for a building, the sustainability goal pertaining to a sustainability performance of the building, determine, using a baseline value for the sustainability performance of the building and the sustainability goal, a target sustainability level for the building, and generate, using the baseline value for the sustainability performance and the target sustainability level, a plurality of energy conservation protocols, a first energy conservation protocol of the plurality of energy conservation protocols including a plurality of actions that meet at least a portion of the sustainability goal or at least a portion of the target sustainability level for the building.