SYSTEM AND APPROACH FOR SETTING FORTH A PHYSICAL VIEW AND A NETWORK VIEW OF A JOB

• US 20150213379A1
• Filed: 01/30/2014
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Nair, Ajay, Hua, Wei, Yu, Liwen, Martin, Christopher, Paravastu, Upender, Barrette, James, Ranjan, Prabhat, Klamka, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 10,332,043 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

An approach for managing a job that may provide a logical model of one or more structures as a configuration for deployment to, for instance, one or more site controllers. A job may be newly created, an existing job, or a remote job. A portal may be established for connection to a relevant job station. A physical view and a network node may be established for showing the physical and network views. The relevant job station may incorporate configurations that support a workbench, a dashboard and gadgets.

Claims

1. A method for managing a job, comprises:

providing a computer;

logging into a local enterprise workbench with the computer;

selecting an approach from a group consisting of creating a new job, opening an existing job, and connecting to a remote job; and

wherein;

the job is a providing a logical model of one or more buildings or structures as a configuration for deployment to one or more site controllers;

creating a job comprises creating a physical view and a network view;

opening an existing job comprises displaying virtually all existing jobs; and

connecting to a remote job comprises getting a remote job station internet protocol address.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein creating a job further comprises:

creating an enterprise portal;

creating an enterprise station having a job name;

running the station having a port;

displaying an enterprise root in a physical view; and

displaying a host in a network view.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the station comprises configurations that support the workbench, a dashboard and gadgets.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the portal is for a connection to the station;

the network view has the station; and

the physical view has an object model.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein opening an existing job further comprising:

selecting a job from the virtually all existing jobs;

running a station having one or more communication ports;

displaying an enterprise root and object model in a physical view; and

displaying a host in a network view.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the station comprises configurations that support the workbench, a dashboard and gadgets.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the portal is for a connection to the station;

the network view has the station; and

the physical view has an object model.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein opening a remote job, further comprises:

connecting to the remote job station;

displaying an enterprise root and an object model in a physical view; and

displaying a host in a network view.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the station comprises configurations that support the workbench, a dashboard and gadgets.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein:

the portal is for a connection to the station;

the network view has the station; and

the physical view has an object model.

11. A method for parsing a macroserver file, comprising:

providing a computer;

importing a macroserver in a first file format from a source via a user interface command on the computer;

loading the macroserver file in a second file format file into a memory;

bringing in a function point list hash map, a device model list hash map and a point hash map for a selected model to the memory; and

traversing the macroserver file in the second file format in view of the functional point list hash map, the device model list hash map and the point hash map for the selected model, to create an object model tree in the second file format.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising dumping the object model tree in the second file format to a file for debugging use.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the first file format is a MAP; and

the second file format is an XML.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

for each found device in the macroserver tree in the second file format, finding a matching model name in the device model hash map;

parsing a location string of a device element to create an entity tree; and

using a model name to load a point map file of a like name.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

traversing a point list of a device in the macroserver tree in the second file format;

finding for each point of the point map file a functional point in the point hash map and an instance number; and

adding the functional point to the object model tree in the second file format.

16. A method for creating an enterprise system comprising:

providing a computer;

providing an object model tree in a first file format, having a branch of devices and a branch of object models on the computer;

obtaining a list of devices on the branch of devices;

adding a BACnet device for each device of the list of devices;

obtaining a point list of each device; and

for each point of the point list of each device, adding a control point to each BACnet device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein each added BACnet device has a name set with a model name and a device instance number.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising adding one or more entities to the branch of object models.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein a station in a second file format incorporates each BACnet device added relative to the branch of devices.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein a station in a second file format incorporates each control point added to a BACnet device.