System and method for hosted facilities management
First Claim
1. A system for hosted centralized monitoring of a plurality of client facilities with a plurality of subsystems and a plurality of components comprising:
- (a) a data communications means for communicating a plurality of conditional state data; and
(b) a data harvester, said data harvester collects, stores, processes, retrieves, and reports said conditional state data.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A hosted facilities management system and method capable of simultaneously monitoring a plurality of conditions, equipment, and systems within one or more facilities is described and claimed. The monitoring system collects, archives, and processes data pertaining to utility services at a facility, environmental conditions within a facility, security around and within a facility, hazardous conditions within a facility, and equipment functionality including but not limited to manufacturing, telecommunications, and data management operations. Anomalous conditions are identified and reported. Data is filtered and compressed to facilitate the efficient storage and management of conditional state data collected from multiple sources. Archived data is retrieved and reported to client facilities via various means. Graphical, numerical, and plot reports are viewable over a distributed network.
-
Citations
19 Claims
-
1. A system for hosted centralized monitoring of a plurality of client facilities with a plurality of subsystems and a plurality of components comprising:
-
(a) a data communications means for communicating a plurality of conditional state data; and
(b) a data harvester, said data harvester collects, stores, processes, retrieves, and reports said conditional state data.
-
-
2. A system for hosted centralized monitoring of a plurality of client facilities with a plurality of subsystems and a plurality of components comprising:
-
(a) a data communications means for communicating a plurality of conditional state data;
(b) a data collection server to collect and to temporarily store said conditional state data;
(c) a data filtering means for compressing said conditional state data over a specified time period;
(d) a high resolution data storage means for archiving said conditional state data without said data filtering;
(e) a low resolution storage means for archiving said conditional state data after said data filtering;
(f) an event switch means for determining whether said conditional state data identifies an anomalous condition, for directing said conditional state data to said high resolution data storage means when said anomalous conditions are identified, and for directing said conditional state data to said low resolution data storage means when said anomalous conditions are absent; and
(g) a report means for retrieving, displaying, and transmitting said conditional state data. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
-
-
11. A method for hosted centralized monitoring of a plurality of client facilities with a plurality of subsystems and a plurality of components, said method comprising the steps of:
-
(a) querying a client facility;
(b) collecting a plurality of conditional state data;
(c) buffering said conditional state data in a temporary storage database;
(d) analyzing said conditional state data in said temporary storage database to identify one or more anomalous conditions;
(e) archiving said conditional state data to a high resolution storage database when said anomalous conditions are identified;
(f) filtering said conditional state data over a defined time interval when said anomalous conditions are absent, said filtering summarizes said conditional state data over said defined time interval; and
(g) archiving said conditional state data after said data filtering to a low resolution storage database. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
-
Specification