Building system for building equipment with external model integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building systems often operate inefficiently, affecting occupant health and environmental sustainability due to lack of integrated scoring models for evaluating and improving building performance across environmental, security, and maintenance aspects.
Innovation Solution
A building system that integrates external scoring models to generate scores based on building data, allowing for updates and recommendations to improve performance, including user feedback validation and data health scoring to optimize occupant health, space health, and environmental impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If building systems operate independently without integrated scoring models, then each system can be managed separately, but overall building performance and health cannot be comprehensively evaluated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent building systems (HVAC, lighting, security, etc.) into a unified building system that uses integrated scoring models to evaluate overall building performance. The system aggregates data from various subsystems and applies comprehensive scoring methodologies to assess building health across multiple dimensions including environmental impact, occupant well-being, and operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The building system implements universal scoring models that can evaluate multiple aspects of building performance simultaneously. The system is designed to handle diverse data types and evaluation criteria through a single integrated platform that supports different scoring methodologies (e.g., LEED, BREEAM, custom frameworks) and can adapt to various building types and operational contexts.
2Measurement precision
If external scoring models are integrated into the building system, then building performance can be comprehensively evaluated, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer that sits between external scoring models and the building system operations. This intermediary component handles model integration, data transformation, and score calculation, shielding the core building management functions from the complexity of multiple external models while enabling comprehensive performance evaluation through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the building evaluation into distinct modules corresponding to different external scoring models and performance dimensions. Each module can be independently configured, validated, and updated, allowing the system to manage complexity through modular architecture while maintaining comprehensive evaluation capabilities across environmental, social, and operational domains.
3Productivity
If building systems operate without feedback mechanisms, then operations can proceed without interruption, but performance improvement and optimization are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements comprehensive feedback loops that continuously monitor building performance metrics, compare actual results against target scores from integrated scoring models, and automatically generate and execute corrective actions. The system tracks performance over time, identifies trends and deviations, and adjusts building operations to optimize scores across environmental sustainability, occupant health, and operational efficiency dimensions.
Data Source
AI summary
A building system that operates to receive building data from one or more building systems of the building, the building data including data of a plurality of disparate building parameters, wherein at least a portion of the building data is associated with control of the one or more environmental conditions of the building and receive an indication of an external performance model, the external performance model defining a methodology for determining operational performance of the building, the external performance model defined by a second entity different from the first entity. The building system operates to generate one or more operational performance indicators with the external performance model and the building data and generate a user interface.