Scalable homogenized intelligent building data ingest controller

• US 10,440,118 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2015
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kao, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Reema
• Assistant Examiner(s): Christopher, Steven M
• Application Number:
  US14/626,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20160248856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,692 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2836 Protocol conversion between an external network and a home network controlling appliance services of a home automation network from a device located outside the home and the home network H04L12/2818; protocol conversion H04L69/08; adaptation of digital video signals for transport over a specific home network H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

A device for processing alarms includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations for processing building management system data. The operations include retrieving a first source driver and a first destination driver. The first source driver is for accessing the building management system data from a first source and the first destination driver is for transforming the data from the first source into a first standard format utilized by a first destination data storage system. The operations further include accessing the data from the first source using the first source driver, transforming the data from the first source into the first standard format using the first destination driver, and storing the data from the first source that is transformed into the first standard format into the first destination data storage system.

Claims

1. A device for processing building management system data, the device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

retrieving a first source driver and a first destination driver, wherein the first source driver is for accessing the building management system data in a first data storage format from a first source, wherein the first source comprises a first building management system aggregation panel for aggregating the building management system data from a first plurality of sensors of a building, wherein the first source driver is received from a first vendor of the first source, wherein the first destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into a first standard data storage format utilized by a first destination data storage system;

accessing the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source using the first source driver via a communication system;

transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into the first standard data storage format using the first destination driver;

storing the building management system data from the first source that is transformed into the first standard data storage format into the first destination data storage system;

retrieving a second source driver and a second destination driver, wherein the second source driver is for accessing the building management system data in a second data storage format from a second source, wherein the second source comprises a second building management system aggregation panel for aggregating the building management system data from a second plurality of sensors of the building, wherein the second source driver is received from a second vendor of the second source, wherein the second destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into the first standard data storage format utilized by the first destination data storage system;

accessing the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source using the second source driver via the communication system;

transforming the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into the first standard data storage format using the second destination driver;

storing the building management system data from the second source that is transformed into the first standard data storage format into the first destination data storage system; and

utilizing the building management system data of both the first source and the second source stored in the first destination data storage system using the first standard data storage format to monitor or control at least one physical parameter relating to the building, wherein the at least one physical parameter comprises;

a temperature, a humidity, an atmospheric pressure, a light level, a sound level, or an air quality.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an instruction for processing the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source, wherein the instruction includes an identifier of the first source driver and an identifier of the first destination driver.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the device comprises one of a plurality of middleware servers for processing the building management system data, wherein the instruction is received from a load balancer server.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the first destination data storage system is one of a plurality of destination data storage systems, wherein each of the plurality of destination data storage systems utilizes a different one of a plurality of standard data storage formats, wherein the first standard data storage format utilized by the first destination data storage system comprises one of the plurality of standard data storage formats.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

publishing the first standard data storage format in a public schema, wherein the first source driver and the first destination driver are received in response to the publishing the first standard data storage format.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the building management system data from the first plurality of sensors in the first data storage format is in a first vendor data storage format of the first vendor that is different from the first standard data storage format.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an instruction for processing the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source, wherein the instruction includes an identifier of the second source driver and an identifier of the second destination driver.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the building management system data from the first plurality of sensors in the first data storage format is in a first vendor data storage format of the first vendor that is different from the first standard data storage format, and wherein the building management system data from the second plurality of sensors in the second data storage format is in a second vendor data storage format of the second vendor that is different from the first vendor data storage format and different from the first standard data storage format.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an instruction for processing the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source, wherein the instruction includes an identifier of the second source driver and an identifier of a third destination driver, wherein the third destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into a second standard data storage format utilized by a second destination data storage system.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

accessing the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source using the second source driver;

transforming the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into the second standard data storage format using the third destination driver; and

storing the building management system data from the second source that is transformed into the second standard data storage format into the second destination data storage system.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a further instruction for processing the building management system data from the first source, wherein the further instruction includes an identifier of a third destination driver, wherein the third destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into a second standard data storage format utilized by a second destination data storage system.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into the second standard data storage format using the third destination driver; and

storing the building management system data from the first source that is transformed into the second standard data storage format into the second destination data storage system.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into the first standard data storage format further comprises normalizing the building management system data from the first source into a first standardized time format.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein the building management system data from the first source comprises at least one of:

temperature data;

humidity data;

atmospheric pressure data;

light level data;

sound level data;

or

air quality data.

15. A computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for processing building management system data, the operations comprising:

retrieving a first source driver and a first destination driver, wherein the first source driver is for accessing the building management system data in a first data storage format from a first source, wherein the first source comprises a first building management system aggregation panel for aggregating the building management system data from a first plurality of sensors of a building, wherein the first source driver is received from a first vendor of the first source, wherein the first destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into a first standard data storage format utilized by a first destination data storage system;

accessing the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source using the first source driver via a communication network;

transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into the first standard data storage format using the first destination driver;

storing the building management system data from the first source that is transformed into the first standard data storage format into the first destination data storage system;

retrieving a second source driver and a second destination driver, wherein the second source driver is for accessing the building management system data in a second data storage format from a second source, wherein the second source comprises a second building management system aggregation panel for aggregating the building management system data from a second plurality of sensors of the building, wherein the second source driver is received from a second vendor of the second source, wherein the second destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into the first standard data storage format utilized by the first destination data storage system;

accessing the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source using the second source driver via the communication network;

transforming the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into the first standard data storage format using the second destination driver;

storing the building management system data from the second source that is transformed into the first standard data storage format into the first destination data storage system; and

utilizing the building management system data of both the first source and the second source stored in the first destination data storage system using the first standard data storage format to monitor or control at least one physical parameter relating to the building, wherein the at least one physical parameter comprises;

a temperature, a humidity, an atmospheric pressure, a light level, a sound level, or an air quality.

16. A method for processing building management system data, the method comprising:

retrieving, by at least one processor, a first source driver and a first destination driver, wherein the first source driver is for accessing the building management system data in a first data storage format from a first source, wherein the first source comprises a first building management system aggregation panel for aggregating the building management system data from a first plurality of sensors of a building, wherein the first source driver is received from a first vendor of the first source, wherein the first destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into a first standard data storage format utilized by a first destination data storage system;

accessing, by the at least one processor, the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source using the first source driver via a communication network;

transforming, by the at least one processor, the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source into the first standard data storage format using the first destination driver;

storing, by the at least one processor, the building management system data from the first source that is transformed into the first standard data storage format into the first destination data storage system;

retrieving, by the at least one processor, a second source driver and a second destination driver, wherein the second source driver is for accessing the building management system data in a second data storage format from a second source, wherein the second source comprises a second building management system aggregation panel for aggregating the building management system data from a second plurality of sensors of the building, wherein the second source driver is received from a second vendor of the second source, wherein the second destination driver is for transforming the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into the first standard data storage format utilized by the first destination data storage system;

accessing, by the at least one processor, the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source using the second source driver via the communication network;

transforming, by the at least one processor, the building management system data in the second data storage format from the second source into the first standard data storage format using the second destination driver;

storing, by the at least one processor, the building management system data from the second source that is transformed into the first standard data storage format into the first destination data storage system; and

utilizing, by the at least one processor, the building management system data of both the first source and the second source stored in the first destination data storage system using the first standard data storage format to monitor or control at least one physical parameter relating to the building, wherein the at least one physical parameter comprises;

a temperature, a humidity, an atmospheric pressure, a light level, a sound level, or an air quality.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving, by the at least one processor, an instruction for processing the building management system data in the first data storage format from the first source, wherein the instruction includes an identifier of the first source driver and an identifier of the first destination driver.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

publishing the first standard data storage format in a public schema, wherein the first source driver and the first destination driver are received in response to the publishing the first standard data storage format.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the at least one processor is a component of at least one of a plurality of middleware servers for processing the building management system data, wherein the instruction is received from a load balancer server.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the first destination data storage system is one of a plurality of destination data storage systems, wherein each of the plurality of destination data storage systems utilizes a different one of a plurality of standard data storage formats, wherein the first standard data storage format utilized by the first destination data storage system comprises one of the plurality of standard data storage formats.