Method and apparatus for accessing a building system model

• US 20060009862A1
• Filed: 06/28/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Industry Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Industry Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Ahmed, Osman, Songkakul, Pornsak, Phoenix, George, Imhof, Raphael, Rule, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/169,283
• Publication Number:
  US 20060009862A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/19
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/08 Construction
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A software interface is disclosed for a model of a building system stored in a memory, wherein the model comprises a plurality of building space objects. The software interface comprises: (a) logic for receiving a call comprising a function identifier and at least one object identifier, the function identifier representative of a function applicable to a plurality of object types; and (b) logic for employing the function identifier and the at least one object to call a software function in a function library, the software function corresponding to the function applicable to the object type that corresponds to the at least one object.

Claims

1. A software interface for a model of a building system stored in a memory, the model comprising a plurality of building space objects, at least one building space object including a reference to at least one of the group consisting of a parent building space object and a child building space object, and a reference to information regarding one or more building automation devices associated with the building space object, and at least one building automation device object, each building automation device object including a reference to a corresponding building space object, and a reference to at least one operating value of the building automation device, the software interface comprising:

logic for receiving a call comprising a function identifier and at least one object identifier, the function identifier representative of a function applicable to a plurality of object types;

logic for employing the function identifier and the at least one object to call a software function in a function library, the software function corresponding to the function applicable to the object type that corresponds to the at least one object.