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Information sharing between buildings to trigger actions in a receiving building

  • US 10,444,716 B2
  • Filed: 04/01/2016
  • Issued: 10/15/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for passing actionable information between different buildings to facilitate building management without human intervention, the method comprising:

  • accessing, in a building information modelling (BIM) system of a first building, a set of predefined rules defining different actions to be taken by a building automation system of the first building in response to different types of remote information received from at least a BIM system of a second building;

    receiving an energy sharing request, over a communication channel, from the BIM system of the second building in accordance with the set of remote information, wherein the energy sharing request is sent based on the BIM system of the second building having determined that one or more predefined environmental conditions for sending local data to the BIM system of the first building have been satisfied;

    determining, in response to the received energy sharing request, a matching predefined rule in the set of predefined rules that specifies an energy sharing action to perform when an energy sharing request is received; and

    using the building automation system of the first building to automatically perform the energy sharing action to send one or more energy resources from the first building to the second building in response to the received energy sharing request, in accordance with the set of rules.

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