Building management system site categories
First Claim
1. A supervisor data server configured to communicate with one or more site controllers over a network, the supervisor data server comprising:
- a controller; and
a server database configured to include records of one or more building management site controllers; and
wherein the controller is configured to;
automatically detect a building management site controller that is not already in the server database;
connect to the detected building management site controller that is not already in the server database;
automatically import to the server database a configuration of the detected building management site controller; and
perform a backup of the configuration of the detected building management site controller.
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Abstract
An approach relating to providing a user an ability to place sites into multiple categories and providing applications an ability to query a configuration for members of the categories. The approach not only may provide a user an ability to easily create, deploy, modify and monitor a multi-site enterprise hundreds and thousands of remote building management system site controllers and allow the user to establish each site within the context of a single enterprise group, but it may also incorporate where the site controllers can be identified, sorted or managed within multiple categorical groupings. For example, categorical groupings may facilitate managing the configurations at the sites, applying an operational setting by selecting a logical category, applying common operating parameters to multiple sites, and so forth.
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19 Claims
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1. A supervisor data server configured to communicate with one or more site controllers over a network, the supervisor data server comprising:
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a controller; and a server database configured to include records of one or more building management site controllers; and wherein the controller is configured to; automatically detect a building management site controller that is not already in the server database; connect to the detected building management site controller that is not already in the server database; automatically import to the server database a configuration of the detected building management site controller; and perform a backup of the configuration of the detected building management site controller. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of operating a supervisor data server, the method comprising:
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automatically detecting via a controller a building management site controller that is not already in a server database, the server database configured to include records of one or more building management site controllers; connecting to the building management site controller that is detected and is not already in the server database via the controller; automatically importing to the server database via the controller a configuration of the building management site controller connected to the controller; and performing a backup of the configuration of the building management site controller connected to the controller. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A server for providing access to one or more sites of a multi-site enterprise from a remote location, the server comprising:
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a controller; memory storing an enterprise element tree node; and a database in communication with the controller and the memory wherein the database comprises at least one alarm record; wherein the controller is configured to; automatically detect site controllers connected to a network with the server that are not already in the memory and in response to detecting a site controller that is not already in the memory; connect to the detected site controller; create a file structure for the detected site controller; automatically import to the database a site controller configuration of the detected site controller; retrieve one or more enterprise model elements from the enterprise element tree node in response to a user request and provide a list of site categories for one or more enterprise model elements. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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