DASHBOARD FRAMEWORK FOR GADGETS

• US 20150212714A1
• Filed: 01/24/2014
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Hua, Wei, Martin, Christopher, Barrette, James, Yu, Liwen, Nair, Ajay N., Ranjan, Prabhat, Chetia, Barnali, Paravastu, Upender, Klamka, Robert, Venkataraman, Sreedharan
• Granted Patent: US 10,228,837 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/409 characterised by using manual data input [MDI] or by using control panel, e.g. controlling functions with the panel; characterised by control panel details or by setting parameters G05B19/408, G05B19/4093 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23109 Configuration of display device, operator panel
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

An intuitive dashboard framework for creating, managing and publishing a collection of visualization gadgets for critical environments. It may further reveal intelligent gadgets to visualize critical environmental data in wet chemistry laboratories, and a healthcare and life science environment that are easy to configure, customize and deploy for a web dashboard presentation.

Claims

1. A method for providing a dashboard for a building control system, comprising:

providing at least one structure grid;

obtaining one or more gadgets for showing information relating to a building control system;

placing the one or more gadgets on the at least one structure grid to result in one or more dashboards; and

performing object model navigation to view a dashboard corresponding to an object model from an object model hierarchy.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object model hierarchy comprises an arrangement of levels designating one or more buildings, floors, rooms and devices.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a unified view of the devices in a building network is presented in conjunction with a transparent view of a building revealed in the object model hierarchy.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more dashboards have data pulled from a room level of the building and networked devices.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

a display of the one or more dashboards follows a browser based dashboard paradigm for displaying gadgets on a structure grid;

the gadgets show calculated data from the building control system;

the gadgets are selected from a library of standard gadgets according to a user'"'"'s preference; and

the calculated data are formatted in graphs selected from a library of graphs.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein placing the one or more gadgets on the at least one structure grid to result in one or more dashboards is according to a dashboard template selected from the one or more dashboard templates in a library.

7. A customizable dashboard framework for a building control system, comprising:

one or more dashboard templates;

a workbench tool for providing gadgets for a dashboard; and

a structure grid patterned according to the one or more dashboard templates, for displaying the gadgets in the structure grid as a dashboard; and

wherein the one or more dashboard templates are defined to provide information pertinent to a user.

8. The framework of claim 7, wherein the dashboard comprises:

a transparent view of a building having components and corresponding devices arranged in a hierarchy; and

a unified view of virtually all devices in a network of the building.

9. The framework of claim 7, wherein:

a dashboard template that the structure grid is patterned according to is created by the user;

the one or more dashboard templates are modifiable by the user;

the one or more dashboard templates are defined for specific needs of customers or users based on customer or user profiles and system components;

or

the user can add, delete or customize the one or more dashboard templates on the fly.

10. The framework of claim 7, wherein:

the one or more dashboard templates provide actionable data that enable the user to take steps to support energy reduction initiatives, optimize operations, safety reports and compliance reporting, and act on other one or more items; and

actionable data are one or more items selected from a group consisting of rolling trends, scheduling capabilities, reporting tools that support compliance with regulations, room-level integration wizards, energy dashboards, critical environmental information and tools, solutions to support energy reduction initiatives, operation optimization tools, and safety reports.

11. The framework of claim 7, wherein:

a dashboard display follows a browser-based dashboard paradigm for displaying gadgets on a structure grid;

gadgets are selected from a library of standard gadgets; and

the gadgets can be selected from the library and be customized to monitor and control room airflow, fume hood airflow, device alarms, temperature data, room offset, room pressure, IAQ data, humidity data, emergency mode data, energy usage calculations, air change rates, user status, occupancy status, and control functions of the building control system.

12. The framework of claim 7, wherein:

the workbench tool provides one or more gadgets for building a dashboard by the user; and

the one or more gadgets are for functions selected from a group consisting of energy usage, room safety, VOC level, O2 level, CO2 level, CO level, hood information, emergency modes, weather data, gauging, history, real time, alarm information, system health, room temperature, humidity, ACH, IAQ, pressurization, directional airflow, occupancy, room offset, user status, set points, rolling trends, scheduling, reporting, wizards, and diagnoses.

13. The framework of claim 7, wherein the dashboard has a functionality for controlling air balancers, airflow setpoints, heat positions, cooling positions and adjustments of flow curves in control valves.

14. A dashboard system for a critical environment, comprising:

one or more gadgets for a dashboard; and

a structure grid for displaying the one or more gadgets as a dashboard; and

wherein the one or more gadgets are defined to provide information of a critical environment.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the dashboard has a display that follows a browser-based dashboard paradigm of displaying the one or more gadgets on the structure grid.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein a visualization of data comprises one or more gadgets for showing current values, alarms, histories, safety, and health of communications of the critical environment.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more gadgets in the dashboard provide an ability for a user to manipulate spaces of the building of the critical environment for testing, overriding temperature and airflow, changing setpoints of equipment for providing appropriate conditions for the spaces, and monitoring building performance, critical conditions of the spaces, and diagnostics of equipment.

18. The framework of claim 14, wherein the dashboard is an energy-based dashboard for the critical environmental, to provide actionable data.

19. The framework of claim 14, wherein the one or more gadgets display actionable data collected from room-level devices in the critical environment of a building.

20. The framework of claim 14, wherein the critical environment incorporates one or more items of a group consisting of wet chemistry labs, healthcare, life science, energy reduction, safety, compliance, room conditions, and building control information.