Building management smart entity creation and maintenance using time series data

• US 10,515,098 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2018
• Issued: 12/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Park, Youngchoon, Sinha, Sudhi R., Venkiteswaran, Vaidhyanathan, Paulson, Erik S., Chennupati, Vijaya S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, Kimberly L
• Application Number:
  US16/143,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20190026359A1
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 707737
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/28 Databases characterised by their database models, e.g. relational or object models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/14 using statistical models, e.g. Hidden Markov Models [HMMs] G10L15/18 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/142 Hidden Markov Models [HMMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/63 for estimating an emotional state

Abstract

One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to: receive first raw data including one or more first data points generated by a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings; generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points; access a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities including object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities; identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries; identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and store the first input timeseries in the first data entity.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer readable media containing program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving first raw data from a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings, the plurality of objects each representing a space, person, building subsystem, and/or device, and the first raw data including one or more first data points generated by the first object;

generating first input timeseries according to the one or more data points;

accessing a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities comprising object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities;

identifying a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries;

identifying a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity;

storing the first input timeseries in the first data entity;

identifying a second object entity representing a second object from a second relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the second object entity;

identifying a second data entity from a third relational object indicating a relationship between the second object entity and the second data entity, the second data entity storing second input timeseries corresponding to one or more second data points associated with the second object;

identifying one or more processing workflows that defines one or more processing operations to generate derived timeseries using the first and second input timeseries;

executing the one or more processing workflows to generate the derived timeseries;

identifying a third data entity from a fourth relational object indicating a relationship between the second object entity and the third data entity; and

storing the derived timeseries in the third data entity.

2. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the relational objects semantically define the relationships between the object entities and the data entities.

3. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the input timeseries includes the first identifier, a timestamp indicating a generation time of the one or more first data points, and a value of the one or more first data points.

4. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the first object is an access control device and the second object is an access keycard associated with a person, and the derived timeseries includes one or more virtual data points calculated according to the first and second input timeseries.

5. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 4, wherein the one or more virtual data points include one or more location attributes of the person.

6. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 1, wherein the first object is a temperature sensor and the second object is a variable air volume unit (VAV), and the derived timeseries includes an abnormal temperature attribute corresponding to a space in which the temperature sensor is located and which the VAV is configured to serve.

7. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first or second objects is a temperature sensor, and the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

periodically receive temperature measurements from the temperature sensor; and

update at least the derived timeseries in the third data entity each time a new temperature measurement from the temperature sensor is received.

8. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 7, wherein the derived timeseries includes an average ambient temperature of a space in which the temperature sensor is located.

9. A method for managing timeseries data relating to a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings, the plurality of objects each representing a space, person, building system, and/or device connected to one or more electronic communications networks, comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, first raw data from a first object of the plurality of objects, the first raw data including one or more first data points generated by the first object;

generating, by the one or more processors, first input timeseries according to the one or more data points;

accessing, by the one or more processors, a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities comprising object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities;

identifying, by the one or more processors, a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries;

identifying, by the one or more processors, a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and

storing, by the one or more processors, the first input timeseries in the first data entity,

wherein the relational objects semantically defines the relationships between the object entities and the data entities, and

wherein one or more of the object entities comprises a static attribute to identify the object entity, a dynamic attribute to store data associated with the object entity that changes over time, and a behavioral attribute that defines an expected response of the object entity in response to an input.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first input timeseries corresponds to the dynamic attribute of the first object entity, and at least one of the first data points in the first input timeseries is stored in the dynamic attribute of the first object entity.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the input timeseries includes the first identifier, a timestamp indicating a generation time of the one or more first data points, and a value of the one or more first data points.

12. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

identifying, by the one or more processors, a second object entity representing a second object from a second relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the second object entity; and

identifying, by the one or more processors, a second data entity from a third relational object indicating a relationship between the second object entity and the second data entity, the second data entity storing second input timeseries corresponding to one or more second data points associated with the second object.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more processing workflows that defines one or more processing operations to generate derived timeseries using the first and second input timeseries;

executing, by the one or more processors, the one or more processing workflows to generate the derived timeseries;

identifying, by the one or more processors, a third data entity from a fourth relational object indicating a relationship between the second object entity and the third data entity; and

storing, by the one or more processors, the derived timeseries in the third data entity.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first object is an access control device and the second object is an access keycard associated with a person, and the derived timeseries includes one or more virtual data points calculated according to the first and second input timeseries.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more virtual data points include one or more location attributes of the person.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the first object is a temperature sensor and the second object is a variable air volume unit (VAV), and the derived timeseries includes an abnormal temperature attribute corresponding to a space in which the temperature sensor is located and which the VAV is configured to serve.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein at least one of the first or second objects is a temperature sensor, and the method further comprises:

periodically receiving, by the one or more processors, temperature measurements from the temperature sensor; and

updating, by the one or more processors, at least the derived timeseries in the third data entity each time a new temperature measurement from the temperature sensor is received.

18. A building management cloud computing system for managing timeseries data relating to a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings, the plurality of objects each representing a space, person, building subsystem, and/or device connected to one or more electronic communications networks, comprising:

one or more processors communicably coupled to a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities comprising object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities; and

one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media communicably coupled to the one or more processors having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

receive first raw data from a first object of the plurality of objects, the first raw data including one or more first data points generated by the first object;

generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points;

identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries;

identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and

store the first input timeseries in the first data entity,

wherein the relational objects semantically defines the relationships between the object entities and the data entities,

wherein one or more of the object entities comprises a static attribute to identify the object entity, a dynamic attribute to store data associated with the object entity that changes over time, and a behavioral attribute that defines an expected response of the object entity in response to an input,

wherein the first input timeseries corresponds to the dynamic attribute of the first object entity,

wherein at least one of the first data points in the first input timeseries is stored in the dynamic attribute of the first object entity, and

wherein the input timeseries includes the first identifier, a timestamp indicating a generation time of the one or more first data points, and a value of the one or more first data points.