Generating a three dimensional building management system

• US 10,417,352 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2017
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Cockburn, Mark, Denning, Richard, Rasane, Shailesh, Chen, Henry, Plocher, Tom, Beaulieu, Conrad B., Kiff, Liana M.
• Primary Examiner(s): He, Yingchun
• Application Number:
  US15/666,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20170329876A1
• Time in Patent Office: 777 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/00 3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering

Abstract

Devices, methods, and systems for generating a three dimensional building management system are described herein. One method includes inputting, into a three dimensional graphics rendering engine, building information modeling data associated with a building, inputting, into the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, real time building management system data associated with the building, and generating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a three dimensional building management system for the building based on the building information modeling data and the real time building management system data.

Claims

1. A system for generating a three dimensional building management system, comprising:

a semantic data extraction module configured to extract semantic data from building information modeling data associated with a building;

a geometry modeling module configured to generate a number of three dimensional geometrical models of the building based on the building information modeling data, wherein each of the three dimensional geometrical models has a different fidelity, and the fidelity of one of the number of three dimensional geometrical models is set based on resource constraints of a device on which the three dimensional building management system is to be displayed;

a display sequence generator module configured to generate a sequence for displaying building information modeling objects associated with the building by applying a number of display rules to the semantic data; and

a geometry model dispatcher module configured to generate a three dimensional building management system for the building using one of the number of three dimensional geometrical models and the sequence for displaying the building information modeling objects.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the display sequence generator module is configured to:

adopt a placeholder for each of the building information modeling objects in the sequence, wherein the placeholder for each of the building information objects in the sequence has a number of different fidelities; and

set the fidelity of the placeholder for each of the building information modeling objects.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the display sequence generator module is configured to adjust the fidelity of the placeholder for each of the building information modeling objects based on performance of the system.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the building information modeling objects include building information modeling objects of a number of different types; and

the three dimensional building management system includes a different display mode for the building information modeling objects of each of the different types.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the building information modeling objects include building information modeling objects in a number of different hierarchies; and

the three dimensional building management system includes a different display mode for the building information modeling objects in each of the different hierarchies.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the number of display rules include a region of interest display rule.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the number of display rules include a state visualization display rule.

8. A system for generating a three dimensional building management system, comprising:

a semantic data extraction module configured to extract semantic data from building information modeling data associated with a building;

a geometry modeling module configured to generate a number of three dimensional geometrical models of the building based on the building information modeling data;

a display sequence generator module configured to generate a sequence for displaying building information modeling objects associated with the building by applying a number of display rules to the semantic data and is configured to;

adopt a placeholder for each of the building information modeling objects in the sequence, wherein the placeholder for each of the building information objects in the sequence has a number of different fidelities; and

set the fidelity of the placeholder for each of the building information modeling objects; and

a geometry model dispatcher module configured to generate a three dimensional building management system for the building using one of the number of three dimensional geometrical models and the sequence for displaying the building information modeling objects.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the display sequence generator module is configured to adjust the fidelity of the placeholder for each of the building information modeling objects based on performance of the system.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the building information modeling objects include building information modeling objects of a number of different types; and

the three dimensional building management system includes a different display mode for the building information modeling objects of each of the different types.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the building information modeling objects include building information modeling objects in a number of different hierarchies; and

the three dimensional building management system includes a different display mode for the building information modeling objects in each of the different hierarchies.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the number of display rules include a region of interest display rule.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon that are executable by a processor to:

extract semantic data from building information modeling data associated with a building;

generate two or more three dimensional building management systems for the building using the semantic data, wherein each of the two or more three dimensional building management systems has a different fidelity, and wherein the fidelity of one of the two or more three dimensional building management systems is set based on resource constraints of a device that includes the processor; and

overlay state information associated with the building in the two or more three dimensional building management systems, where the state information includes real time and/or historical data that is associated with objects of the building that are included in the corresponding one of the two or more three dimensional building management system.