Healthcare Room BMS for Patient State-Based Climate Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart building systems lack integrated solutions for efficiently managing patient comfort, scheduling, and security in healthcare facilities, particularly in monitoring and controlling environmental conditions and visitor access, while also providing navigation and parking assistance.
Innovation Solution
A building management system (BMS) that includes processing circuits to receive inputs from sensors, determine a state-of-mind score for patients, control climate conditions, and manage scheduling and security features, such as image analysis for check-in processes and navigation assistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a building management system integrates multiple functions (climate control, scheduling, security, navigation), then operational efficiency and patient comfort are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple building management functions including climate control, scheduling, security monitoring, and navigation assistance into a single integrated BMS platform. This merging of previously separate systems into one unified system improves operational efficiency by enabling centralized control and data sharing, while the complexity is managed through modular architecture and standardized communication protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The BMS is designed as a universal platform that performs multiple functions: monitoring environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, pressure), managing patient and visitor schedules, analyzing security camera footage, and providing navigation assistance. This multi-functionality allows a single system to address diverse operational needs, improving overall productivity while reducing the number of separate systems required.
2Ease of operation
If the BMS continuously monitors patient comfort parameters and dynamically adjusts environmental conditions, then patient comfort is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The BMS dynamically adjusts environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, pressure) based on real-time patient comfort data from sensors and input devices. Rather than maintaining static setpoints, the system continuously adapts conditions to patient needs, improving comfort while optimizing energy use by adjusting parameters only when and where needed based on actual conditions and patient preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements closed-loop feedback by continuously monitoring patient responses to environmental conditions through sensors and input devices, then using this feedback to automatically adjust climate parameters. This feedback mechanism ensures patient comfort is maintained while avoiding unnecessary energy consumption by making adjustments only when patient comfort thresholds are not met.
3Reliability
If the system integrates image analysis for security and check-in processes, then security and operational efficiency are improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The BMS serves as an intermediary that receives image data from security cameras, processes it through integrated image analysis algorithms, and generates actionable outputs such as identifying patients for check-in or detecting security concerns. This intermediary role consolidates processing requirements in one system rather than requiring separate dedicated image analysis systems, improving security while managing complexity through centralized processing.
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AI summary
A building management system (BMS) of a building for controlling a healthcare facility. The BMS including one or more processing circuits comprising one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive inputs from building devices; determine a state-of-mind (SoM) score of a patient based on the inputs using a learning model; and control one or more building devices based on the SoM score while maintaining a temperature, a humidity, and a pressure within a compliance standard within the building.