Healthy Building Dashboard Using Spatial Hierarchy for Compliance Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Presenting healthy building data in an intuitive manner to users is challenging due to the complexity of building control systems, which involve numerous control assets spread across various hierarchical levels, making it difficult to monitor compliance with healthy building guidelines effectively.
Innovation Solution
A spatial hierarchical model is used to organize and monitor building control assets, allowing users to select hierarchical levels, identify and aggregate non-compliance events, and generate a healthy building dashboard that provides spatial context and insights into compliance with healthy building criteria, including video analytics for real-time monitoring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If building control assets are organized across multiple hierarchical levels to cover comprehensive building operations, then the system can monitor more aspects of building health, but the complexity of presenting and monitoring compliance data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the building control system into multiple hierarchical levels (building level, floor level, room level, zone level) where each level can be independently monitored and presented. This segmentation allows comprehensive monitoring across all levels while simplifying data presentation by enabling users to focus on specific hierarchical levels rather than being overwhelmed by all data simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a hierarchical dimension to organize building control assets, transforming the flat complex data structure into a multi-level hierarchical structure. This dimensional organization allows the system to handle comprehensive monitoring requirements while simplifying presentation through hierarchical aggregation and drill-down capabilities.
2Loss of information
If detailed non-compliance data is displayed for all hierarchical levels simultaneously, then complete compliance information is available, but the dashboard becomes difficult to interpret
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing the dashboard to display different levels of detail in different hierarchical sections. Each hierarchical level can be independently configured to show appropriate detail - high-level summaries at the building level, moderate detail at floor levels, and detailed views at room and zone levels. This enables complete information to be available while maintaining interpretability through context-appropriate detail levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements partial action by allowing users to selectively expand or collapse hierarchical levels based on their needs. Users can choose to view only the hierarchical levels relevant to their current task, displaying partial information when appropriate rather than forcing complete information display. This maintains dashboard interpretability while keeping complete compliance information available on demand.
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AI summary
A spatial hierarchical model provides spatial context to a plurality of building control assets disposed within a plurality of hierarchical levels of the spatial hierarchical model. A method includes identifying non-compliance events detected by building control assets disposed at and below a particular hierarchical level of the spatial hierarchical model. The non-compliance events detected by building control assets disposed at and below the particular hierarchical level of the spatial hierarchical model over a period of time are aggregated and a healthy building dashboard that includes a representation of the aggregated non-compliance events for each of at least some of the one or more of the healthy building criteria detected by building control assets disposed at and below the particular hierarchical level of the spatial hierarchical model is generated and is displayed on a display.