IoT Building Compliance Monitoring With Predictive Failure Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for compliance with environmental and safety regulations in edifices, such as hospitals, lack predictive capabilities for potential failures of devices, structures, and mechanisms, leading to potential human and environmental mishaps and penalties.
Innovation Solution
A system integrating a computer server with IoT sensors and controllers that registers environmental and safety measures, operational parameters, usage history, and patterns, allowing the server to predict potential failures and send instructions for replacement or repair of devices, structures, and mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sensors and controllers are integrated with a computer server using IoT to monitor environmental and safety parameters, then compliance with safety and environmental regulations is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the monitoring and control functions into separate modular components: sensors for data collection, controllers for device actuation, and a computer server for centralized analysis and decision-making. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system reliability for regulatory compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The computer server acts as an intermediary between sensors and controllers, processing sensor data and generating control instructions. This intermediary layer simplifies the system architecture by centralizing intelligence, allowing sensors and controllers to remain relatively simple while achieving complex compliance monitoring and control functions.
2Reliability
If the computer server uses usage history and patterns to predict potential failures of devices, then the reliability of device operation is improved, but the amount of data processing and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data collection and analysis by continuously monitoring usage patterns and storing historical data in the computer server. This preliminary action enables predictive failure analysis before actual failures occur, improving device operation reliability while allowing data to be accumulated and processed at convenient intervals rather than in real-time crisis situations.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a system for compliance of an edifice with safety and environmental regulations. The system comprises at least one computer server integrated by mean of the Internet of things (IoT) with sensors and controllers, wherein the sensors and controllers are coupled to corresponding edifice's devices, structures and mechanisms. The sensors register environmental and safety measures in the edifice. The sensors also register the operational parameters of the devices, structures and mechanisms in the edifice. The computer server receives the registers from the sensors and based on these registers dictate, by means of actuating instructions to the controllers, the operation of the devices, structures and mechanisms of the edifice. The system also records logs of usage history and usage patterns for the devices, structures and mechanisms of the edifice. The computer server is programmed, based in the usage history and usage patterns, to predict potential failures of the devices, structures and mechanisms of the edifice. In case of potential failure of a device, structure, or mechanism, the computer server commands replacement or repair of the device, structure or mechanism. By anticipating the failure of devices, structures and mechanism in the edifice, the system of the present invention assures the flawless operation of the edifice and full compliance with safety and environmental regulations.