STREAMING GRAPHIC METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR BUILDING CONTROL SYSTEMS

• US 20140163747A1
• Filed: 02/13/2014
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Industry Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Industry Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Imhof, Raphael
• Granted Patent: US 9,606,550 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/276
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1917 using digital means
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data

Abstract

A building system server includes a processing device executing a server program. The processing device receives a request from a remote device for information regarding a building control system. The processing device provides, responsive at least in part to the request for information, at least one software program. The remote device executes the software program to: request and receive background graphic data corresponding to the request; request and receive first data identifying at least one variable control, and a format of the at least one variable control; request and receive second data containing a building control value corresponding to the at least one variable control; and cause a compatible web browser to build a graphics page based on the graphic data, first data and second data. The processing device provides the graphics page to the remote device.

Claims

1. A building system server, comprising a processing device executing a server program to:

receive a request from a remote device for information regarding a building control system;

provide, responsive at least in part to the request for information, at least one software program and at least first data defining a graphical element over the Internet to the remote device, said software program, when executed by said remote device, causes the remote device to i) display at least a first graphical element, the first graphical element having a fixed element and a variable element, the fixed element derived from the first data defining a graphical element, the variable element representative of a first value from a building control system; and

generate a function call to a building control system data source, wherein the function call causes the building control system data source to provide to the server program a plurality of subsequent data values associated with the variable element of the first graphical element.

2. The building system server of claim 1, wherein the processing device further executes the server program to:

provide to the remote device a second value representative of at least one of the plurality of subsequent data values, the second value comprising non-graphical information.

3. The building system server of claim 2, wherein said software program, when executed by said remote device, further causes the remote device to,

ii) display the first graphical element such that the variable element is representative of the second value, and

iii) display the fixed element using the first graphical data received prior to step i).

4. The building system server of claim 3, wherein the processing device is further configured to provide the second value to the remote device in a mark-up language document.

5. The building system server of claim 4, wherein the mark-up language document further comprises an extensible mark-up language document.

6. The building system server of claim 1, wherein said software program comprises an interpreted software program configured to be executed through a web browser on the remote device.

7. The building system server of claim 1, wherein the processing device further executes the server program to:

responsive to receiving at least one of the plurality of subsequent data values from the building control system data source, provide to the remote device a second value representative of the at least one of the plurality of subsequent data values, the second value comprising non-graphical information.

8. A building system server, comprising a processing device executing a server program to:

receive a request from a remote device for information regarding a building control system;

provide to the remote device over the Internet, responsive at least in part to the request for information, at least one software program, said software program when executed by said remote device, causes the remote device to,

request and receive background graphic data corresponding to the request;

request and receive first data identifying at least one variable control corresponding to the request, and a format of the at least one variable control;

request and receive second data containing a building control value corresponding to the at least one variable control; and

cause a compatible web browser to build a graphics page based on the graphic data, first data and second data; and

provide the graphics page to the remote device.

9. The building system server of claim 8, wherein the processing device further executes the server program to obtain the building control value from a building control system data source.

10. The building system server of claim 9, wherein the processing device further executes the server program to obtain the background graphic data from the building control system data source.

11. The building system server of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further configured to:

generate a function call to a building control system data source, wherein the function call causes the building control system data source to provide to the server program a plurality of subsequent data values associated with the variable control; and

provide to the remote device over the Internet a subsequent value representative of at least one of the plurality of subsequent data values, the subsequent value comprising non-graphical information.

13. A building server system, comprising:

a building control system data source;

a first server operably coupled to the building control system data source, executing a server program to;

receive a request from a remote device for information regarding a building control system;

provide to the remote device over the Internet, responsive at least in part to the request for information, at least one software program, said software program when executed by said remote device, causes the remote device to,

request and receive background graphic data corresponding to the request;

request and receive first data identifying at least one variable control, and a format of the at least one variable control;

request and receive second data containing a building control value corresponding to the at least one variable control; and

cause a compatible web browser to build a graphics page based on the graphic data, first data and second data based on data received from the building control system data source; and

provide the graphics page to the remote device.

14. The building server system of claim 13, wherein the first server further executes the server program to obtain the building control value from a building control system data source.

15. The building server system of claim 14, wherein the building control system data source includes an asynchronous data server, and wherein the asynchronous data server is configured to provide the building control value to the first server.

16. The building server system of claim 15, wherein the asynchronous data server is operably coupled to communicate with a plurality of building control system devices.

17. The building system server of claim 15, wherein the first server further executes the server program to obtain the background graphic data from the building control system data source.

18. The building server system of claim 17, wherein the building control system data source includes a configuration database, and wherein the configuration database is configured to provide the background graphic data to the first server.

19. The building server system of claim 13, wherein the format of the at least one variable control comprises a bar graph format.

20. The building server system of claim 13, wherein the format of the at least one variable control comprises a radial gauge format.