Semantic Building Model Search for Cross-System Control Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current building management systems lack an efficient mechanism for implementing control applications, generating custom operating logic, and visualizing building data across multiple sub-systems and buildings, leading to time-consuming and inefficient software development.
Innovation Solution
A building system that utilizes semantic building applications, which include static and dynamic components, to automatically generate implementation details, resolve conflicts, and operate based on semantic descriptions, allowing for plug-and-play deployment of control applications and user-defined logic, and generating custom user interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional building management systems are used to implement control applications and generate custom operating logic, then software development can be completed, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient requiring multiple developments for each subsystem and building
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a semantic building model that serves as a reusable template representing the building and its subsystems. This model can be copied and adapted across multiple buildings and subsystems, eliminating the need to develop software from scratch for each implementation. The semantic model captures the essential structure, relationships, and operations that can be replicated universally.
Solution Approach 2:
The semantic building model is designed to be universal and applicable across different buildings and subsystems. It provides a unified framework that can represent various building types (HVAC, lighting, security, etc.) and be used consistently across multiple implementations, making the software development process efficient and scalable.
2Extent of automation
If semantic building applications are used to automate building operations, then manual intervention is reduced, but the system complexity increases due to semantic modeling and reasoning requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The semantic building model acts as an intermediary layer between the physical building subsystems and the control applications. It provides a standardized interface and representation that simplifies automation by translating complex building operations into semantic concepts that can be reasoned about and automated without directly managing the underlying system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses semantic reasoning to dynamically determine implementation details based on the building information and application requirements. This allows the system to adapt and optimize operations automatically by changing parameters and configurations based on semantic analysis, reducing manual intervention while managing complexity through intelligent decision-making.
3Adaptability or versatility
If custom user interfaces are generated based on semantic building models, then user interface flexibility is enhanced, but the processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The semantic building model is created and structured in advance, containing all the necessary information about the building, subsystems, and their relationships. This preliminary semantic representation enables user interfaces to be generated quickly by querying and visualizing the pre-processed semantic data, rather than processing raw building information at interface generation time.
Solution Approach 2:
The semantic building model serves as a reusable template that can be copied and instantiated to generate multiple custom user interfaces efficiently. Once the semantic model is created, it can be leveraged across different interface scenarios, reducing the computational overhead and time required for each interface generation task.
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AI summary
A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to cause a user interface of a user device to display a plurality of nodes of a semantic building model and a plurality of relationships between the plurality of nodes of the semantic building model. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a search input from the user device, generate a search result based on the search input, wherein the search result comprises an indication of a portion of nodes of the plurality of nodes and a portion of relationships of the plurality of relationships, and cause the user interface to display the portion of nodes of the plurality of nodes and the portion of relationships of the plurality of relationships.