MONITORING A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20160033947A1
• Filed: 07/31/2014
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Manickam, Raveendran, Muthuraj, Paramesh, Sundar M, Deepak, Ghosh, Soumen, Kulandaivel Sankarapandian, Rajesh, N, Ganesh
• Granted Patent: US 9,729,618 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

Devices, methods, and systems for monitoring a building management system are described herein. One method includes monitoring an attribute of a building, monitoring an activity related to the attribute performed by an operator, and publishing the activity performed by the operator and the attribute of the building.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a building management system, comprising:

monitoring an attribute of a building;

monitoring an activity related to the attribute performed by an operator; and

publishing the activity performed by the operator and the attribute of the building.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the attribute of the building comprises at least one of:

an alarm indicating an event associated with the building;

an occurrence of a fire in the building; and

an indication of an energy usage increase in the building.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein publishing the activity performed by the operator and the attribute of the building includes displaying the activity and the attribute on a timeline.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the published activity performed and the attribute of the building correspond to at least one of a past time period, a current time period, and a future time period.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the activity performed corresponds to the future time period; and

the activity is an activity expected to be performed by the operator.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein:

the attribute of the building corresponds to the future time period; and

the building is expected to demonstrate the attribute during the future time period.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon that are executable by a processor to:

monitor a building management system and operator activities associated with the building management system;

store information related to the building management system and the operator activities;

analyze the stored information related to the building management system and the operator activities; and

publish the analyzed stored information related to the building management system and the operator activities.

8. The medium of claim 7, wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to analyze the stored information related to the building management system and the operator activities based on an indication of at least one of an alarm in the building, an operator status, a previous operator activity, and a system activity.

9. The medium of claim 8, wherein the system activity includes at least one of a system behavior, a system trend, and a system response.

10. The medium of claim 8, wherein the analysis of the stored information and the operator activities includes determining a change in at least one of the indications.

11. The medium of claim 7, wherein the analysis of the stored information and the operator activities includes determining which of the operator activities were in response to which information related to the building management system.

12. The medium of claim 7, wherein the analysis of the stored information and the operator activities includes determining whether further operator activity is requested.

13. The medium of claim 7, wherein the data related to the building management system includes an indication of a location in the building management system that corresponds to the data.

14. The medium of claim 7, wherein the published information and activities are published as at least one of a video clip, an image, audio, a link to a configuration page, and a chart.

15. A device for monitoring a building management system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to;

monitor an attribute of a building management system;

monitor an activity of an operator of the building management system related to the attribute;

analyze how the activity of the operator is related to the attribute;

indicate at least one of an action, a warning, and a recommendation corresponding to the activity of the operator and the attribute; and

publish the activity of the operator, the attribute, the analysis of how the activity is related to the attribute, and the indication of the at least one of the action, the warning, and the recommendation.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the indication includes a recommendation to respond to the attribute based on the activity of the operator.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the recommendation is based on a deviation of at least one of the attribute and the activity of the operator.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the analysis is based on a process relationship and a criticality, wherein the process relationship includes a relationship of at least one attribute to another attribute in the building management system and the criticality defines an importance of the attribute.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the executable instructions are executed to:

monitor a plurality of attributes of the building system;

monitor a plurality of operator activities on the building system;

analyze the plurality of attributes and the plurality of operator activities, wherein the analysis includes chronologically correlating the plurality of building attributes with the plurality of operator activities; and

provide an indication of how the plurality of operator activities changes the plurality of attributes of the building system.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the executable instructions are executed to publish the plurality of operator activities in a chronological order on a displayed timeline panel.