Method and apparatus for generating an operating view for a building management system

• US 20030176930A1
• Filed: 03/06/2003
• Published: 09/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Heinrich Nold
• Original Assignee: Heinrich Nold
• Inventors: Nold, Heinrich
• Application Number:
  US10/383,151
• Publication Number:
  US 20030176930A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/17
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

In a method of generating an operating view for a building management system a selectable background image is represented at an input/output terminal (38) by a client server system (4, 5). Data points of the building management system, which can be selected in a window representation, can be freely placed in the background image for example by a drag-and-drop operation, in which case a file (32) describing the operating view is generated by the client server system (4, 5). The current state or value of the data point represented in the operating view is automatically read by the client server system (4, 5) and optically represented in the operating view represented at the input/terminal (38).

Claims

1. A method of generating an operating view for a user interface of an apparatus for controlling and/or regulating process parameters, comprising

a control and/or regulating arrangement (2, 3, 7, 8, 10),

a server device (4), and

a client device (5) connected to the server device (4) by way of a communication channel (6),

wherein the server device (4) has a data store (32) and an activity (35;

36;

37), and

wherein the client device (5) has an activity (39;

40) and an input/output terminal (38) for the user interface (130), and

wherein the client device (5) and the server device (4) are designed and connected by way of the communication channel (6) in such a way that together they form a so-called client server system (5, 6, 4),

comprising

a method step in which a background image (71) can be selected by way of the client device (5) and represented at the input/output terminal (38),

a method step in which a data point (21, 22 to 29) of the control and/or regulating arrangement (2, 3, 7, 8, 10) is selectably represented at the input/output terminal (38) and inserted in the background image (71) represented at the input/output terminal (38), wherein by way of the server device (4) a description (31) readable by a computer of the current structure and the present data points (21 to 29) of the control and/or regulating arrangement (2, 3, 7, 8, 10) can be accessed and is available for the client device for reading,

a method step in which the client server system (5, 4, 6) generates a file (32) describing the operating view (130) from a data set describing the background image (71), wherein the operating view (130;

30) represents a data point (21 or 25 respectively) which is inserted in the background image (71) and selected by an operator, and

a method step in which the current state or value of the data point (21, 22 to 29) selected by the operator is automatically read by the client server system (5, 4, 6) and optically represented in the operating view (130;

30) represented at the input/output terminal (38).

2. A method according to claim 1 characterised by a method step in which the state or value of a data point (21, 22 to 29), which can be selected in the operating view (130;

30), of the control and/or regulating arrangement (2, 3, 7, 8, 10), can be modified by way of the operating view (130;

30).

4. An arrangement for carrying out a method according to one of claims 1 to 3.

5. An arrangement according to claim 4 characterised in that the file (32) describing the operating view (30;

130) can be interpreted by a web browser program (39).

3. A method according to a preceding claim characterised in that a selected data point (21, 22 to 29) is displaceable by drag-and-drop operation on the background image (71).