Mobile device with graphical user interface for interacting with a building automation system

• US 10,095,393 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2016
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trane International Inc. (Trane Technologies plc)
• Original Assignee: Trane International Inc. (Trane Technologies plc)
• Inventors: Mairs, Susan M., Kinney, Bryan George, Hayman, Kimberly, Schumann, Melissa Rose, Nilsson, Rachel Michael, Larson, Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): CHOI, DAVID E
• Application Number:
  US15/166,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20160274775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23051 Remote control, enter program remote, detachable programmer
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25167 Receive commands through mobile telephone
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/02 Networking aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/06 Consumer Electronics Control, i.e. control of another device by a display or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players

Abstract

A mobile device with a graphical user interface for remotely monitoring and/or remotely interacting with a configurable building automation systems (BAS). In particular, the mobile device'"'"'s graphical user interface that has a portrait mode and a landscape mode, and the graphical user interface is displayed on the touchscreen in the portrait mode or the landscape mode based on the orientation of the mobile device.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

a processor in communication with a memory, a network interface, a touchscreen, and an accelerometer that detects an orientation with respect to a gravitational center and communicates the orientation to the processor,

the processor executing instructions read from the memory for a graphical user interface and displaying the graphical user interface on the touchscreen,

the graphical user interface includes a portrait mode and a landscape mode, wherein the graphical user interface is displayed on the touchscreen in the portrait mode or the landscape mode based on the orientation, wherein the portrait mode and the landscape mode are switchable by toggling a position of the mobile device,

each of the portrait mode and the landscape mode of the graphical user interface includes a screen and a navigation bar,

the navigation bar includes a plurality of icons, each of the icons is associated with an interactive screen, wherein a selection of one of the icons by touching the touchscreen is detectable by the processor to display in the screen the interactive screen associated with the one of the icons, and

the graphical user interface is configured to receive operational instructions via the touchscreen, relay the operational instructions to the processor, the processor is configured to send the operational instructions to a remote system via a transmission from the network interface,

the network interface receives operation schedule data from the remote system in real time, and the processor displays in the interactive screen the operation schedule data as an interactive graphic,

wherein the interactive screen includes a portrait interactive screen and a landscape interactive screen,

the processor displays in the screen the landscape interactive screen when the graphical user interface is in the landscape mode, the landscape interactive screen displayed includes an itemized operation schedule data of the remote system, wherein the itemized operation schedule data displayed includes displaying separately a scheduled operation setting and one or more exception settings which can alter the scheduled operation setting,

the processor displays in the screen the portrait interactive screen when the graphical user interface is in the portrait mode, the portrait interactive screen displayed includes a net operation schedule data that is a sum of the scheduled operation setting and the one or more exception settings of the itemized operation schedule data of the remote system, and the portrait interactive screen does not include displaying separately the scheduled operation setting and the one or more exception settings of the itemized operation schedule data of the remote system.

2. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the portrait mode of the graphical user interface includes a screen having a longer length than width, and the navigation bar includes five icons disposed horizontally along the width of the graphical user interface.

3. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the landscape mode of the graphical user interface includes a screen having a shorter length than width, and the navigation bar includes seven icons disposed horizontally along the width of the graphical user interface.

4. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the network interface receives condition data of an area associated with the remote system in real time, and the processor displays in the interactive screen the condition data as an interactive graphic.

5. The mobile device according to claim 4, wherein the interactive graphic includes an animated image of the area.

6. The mobile device according to claim 4, wherein the interactive graphic includes a blueprint image of the area, wherein the condition data is shown in a portion of the blueprint image, wherein the condition data and the portion are associated according to the condition data received from the remote system.

7. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the network interface receives condition data of an area associated with the remote system in real time, the condition data is displayed in the portrait interactive screen when the graphical user interface is in the portrait mode, and the condition data is displayed in the landscape interactive screen as an interactive graphic when the graphical user interface is in the landscape mode.

8. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the remote system is a building automation system.