MECHANISM AND APPROACH FOR MONITORING BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS THROUGH USER DEFINED CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS
First Claim
1. A mechanism for monitoring a building automation system, comprising:
- an alarm/event triggering conditions configuration component;
an alarm/event monitoring component;
an alarm/event system context data notification configuration component integrated with the alarm/event triggering conditions configuration component and system configuration database component to support configuration for data notification;
a system configuration database that facilitates generating a default or a user-defined context data notification based on each alarm/event triggering condition configuration;
an alarm event monitoring component integrated with the alarm/event triggering conditions configuration component for configuration of alarms/events to monitor; and
a real-time data component and a history data component, providing data for monitoring alarm/event conditions.
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Abstract
A system or mechanism for monitoring a building automation system through configurable conditions that indicate non-optimal performance or failure of building equipment. The mechanism may deliver notifications when the conditions are triggered. The mechanism may enable complex conditions and arbitrary user defined contents providing a context of the system to be delivered as notifications of data to configured recipients. The mechanism may enable a configuring event including not only user defined system context data as part of the event notification but also complex user defined conditions as needed.
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22 Claims
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1. A mechanism for monitoring a building automation system, comprising:
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an alarm/event triggering conditions configuration component; an alarm/event monitoring component; an alarm/event system context data notification configuration component integrated with the alarm/event triggering conditions configuration component and system configuration database component to support configuration for data notification; a system configuration database that facilitates generating a default or a user-defined context data notification based on each alarm/event triggering condition configuration; an alarm event monitoring component integrated with the alarm/event triggering conditions configuration component for configuration of alarms/events to monitor; and a real-time data component and a history data component, providing data for monitoring alarm/event conditions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for alarm/event monitoring and notification in a building automation system, comprising:
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monitoring a triggering condition based on an alarm/event condition configuration; evaluating the triggering condition from an alarm/event triggering condition configuration periodically or upon a change notification of a value in the triggered condition; and polling data, monitoring for change of data values, and/or fetching/analyzing history data as required for evaluating the triggering condition. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for configuring alarm/event triggering for notification in a building automation system, comprising:
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configuring alarm/event triggering conditions; configuring alarm/event notification contents; and configuring alarm/event notification options; and wherein; the configuring alarm/event triggering conditions can reference history data; if history data is needed, the history data will be configured automatically as a result of configuring alarm/event triggering conditions; and the configuring alarm/event notification contents can incorporate history data; if history data is needed for notification contents, the history data will be configured automatically as a result of detecting history data as needed in the configured notification contents. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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