AUTOMATED FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20120143356A1
• Filed: 09/02/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PepperDash Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: PepperDash Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Berg-Sonne, Anker, Huselid, David M., Nunes, Howard A., Rayancha, Sumanth
• Application Number:
  US13/225,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20120143356A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/49
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/54 according to a pre-established time schedule
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/003 Load forecast, e.g. methods or systems for forecasting future load demand
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/00 Management or operation of end-user stationary applications or the last stages of power distribution; Controlling, monitoring or operating thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving

Abstract

An automated facilities management system has the ability to predict occupant behavior by identifying recurring patterns in the way that people use buildings and comparing them with environmental characteristics. This technology is not limited to human behavior patterns, but extends to any mechanical systems or data points that tend to vary in recurring patterns. The data processing is carried out by rules engines triggered by relational database modifications.

Claims

1. A system for automatically managing a facility, comprising:

a plurality of sensor devices providing sensed data;

a plurality of control devices for actuating facility devices;

a data store having a plurality of patterns related to the sensor devices;

a processor coupled to the data store, the sensor devices, and the control devices, the processor being responsive to the sensed data over time from the sensor devices to;

store the sensed data over time in the data store;

calculate the best match pattern from sensed data over time and the plurality of patterns;

predict future sensed data from the best match pattern; and

signal a control device based on the predicted future sensed data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor devices are occupancy sensors.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising a building management system disposed between the processor and the control devices.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data store includes a relational database.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the relational database is ACID compliant.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the patterns include expected sensor data for an interval of time.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the interval of time is divided into equal length time slices.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor includes a rules engine.

9. A method for automatically managing a facility, comprising:

receiving sensed data from a plurality of sensor devices providing sensed data;

providing a plurality of control devices for actuating facility devices;

storing a plurality of patterns related to the sensor devices in a data store;

coupling a processor coupled to the data store, the sensor devices, and the control devices, the processor being responsive to the sensed data over time from the sensor devices to;

store the sensed data over time in the data store;

calculate the best match pattern from sensed data over time and the plurality of patterns;

predict future sensed data from the best match pattern; and

signal a control device based on the predicted future sensed data.

10. An article of manufacture, comprising:

a machine-readable medium;

a set of program code segments embodied on the machine-readable medium, the program code segments including machine instructions for a method for automatically managing a facility, the method comprising;

receiving sensed data from a plurality of sensor devices providing sensed data;

providing a plurality of control devices for actuating facility devices;

storing a plurality of patterns related to the sensor devices in a data store;

coupling a processor coupled to the data store, the sensor devices, and the control devices, the processor being responsive to the sensed data over time from the sensor devices to;

store the sensed data over time in the data store;

calculate the best match pattern from sensed data over time and the plurality of patterns;

predict future sensed data from the best match pattern; and

signal a control device based on the predicted future sensed data.