Computer-aided System for Managing and/or Controlling a Building Management System

• US 20110107248A1
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Inventors: Fussenegger, Markus, Blum, Juergen
• Application Number:
  US12/934,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20110107248A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23258 GUI graphical user interface, icon, function bloc editor, labview
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control

Abstract

In a computer-assisted system for managing and/or controlling a building management system, which system has a plurality of actuators, in particular lamps, sensors and/or command transmitters, which are located in different rooms, a database is provided, in which database information relating to the actuators, sensors and/or command transmitters of the building management system and also data about an axial cell structure of the building are stored. The system is designed to provide a graphical user interface on a display, on which graphical user interface the building and the arrangement of the actuators, sensors and/or command transmitters located in said building are graphically displayed.

Claims

1. A computer-aided system for managing and/or controlling a building management system comprising a plurality of actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters located in different rooms, the system having a database in which there is stored information relating to the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters of the building management system and also data about an axial cell structure of the building, wherein the system provides a graphical user interface on a display, in which graphical user interface the building and the arrangement of the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters located therein are graphically displayed.

2. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface enables the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters to be managed.

3. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 2, wherein a group association of the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters can be altered by functions provided by the user interface.

4. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the graphical user interface, the represented information is linked to CAD representations of the building.

5. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 1, wherein an enlargement factor for the representation in the graphical user interface can be varied.

6. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the representation of details of the building and/or of the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters is dependent on the set enlargement factor.

7. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system provides a further user interface, in which the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters are represented in a tabular and/or hierarchical manner.

8. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 7, wherein a definition, or new set-up, of actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters is effected in the further user interface, the data compiled in the further user interface being converted into the graphical representation of the building and of the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters, by an algorithm.

9. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display is a touch screen.

10. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 1, wherein an operating state of the actuators, sensors, and/or command transmitters and/or of alarms or reports is represented in the graphical user interface.

11. A computer program product, which, in the case of operation on a computer, provides a graphical user interface for use in a system for managing and/or controlling a building management system according to claim 1.

12. The computer-aided system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the actuators are lighting units.