SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING FACILITY INFORMATION

• US 20160133036A1
• Filed: 11/11/2015
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Chen, Henry, Zhang, Weilin, Lau, Peter
• Application Number:
  US14/938,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20160133036A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/04 Changes in size, position or resolution of an image
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/34 for rolling or scrolling

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to methods for displaying facility information. One such method includes causing a client terminal to render on-screen floorplan data at a desired position and resolution, wherein the floorplan data is defined by a plurality of scalable resolution independent vector images, each resolution independent vector image representing a physical space in a facility. As set of rules are executed thereby to apply determined visual characteristics to one or more of the vector images, wherein each of the one or more vector images is associated with a data point in a building management system, and wherein for a given vector image the set of rules defines a relationship between observed data point values and visual characteristics to be displayed.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for displaying facility information, the method including:

maintaining access to a repository of floorplan data, wherein the floorplan data is defined by a plurality of scalable resolution independent vector images, each resolution independent vector image representing a physical space in a facility;

maintaining access to a database that associates a plurality of the vector images with data points defined in a building management system;

in response to a request from a client terminal, enabling the client terminal to render the floorplan data at a desired position and resolution; and

configuring the client terminal to render each of the plurality of vector images with graphical characteristics determined by reference to the data points defined in the building management system.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the scalable resolution independent vector images include HTML5 Scalable Vector Graphics images.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein, for a given vector image, the graphical characteristics determined by reference to a relationship between:

(i) a measured temperature value at the represented physical space; and

(ii) a defined temperature setpoint value defined for the represented physical space.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein, for a given vector image, the graphical characteristics include a fill for the vector image.

5. A method according to claim 4 wherein the fill is characterized by a colour and/or pattern and/or opacity.

6. A method according to claim 4 wherein the fill is characterized by an alphanumeric information.

7. A method according to claim 1 including enabling a user to define video data representative of navigation of the rendered floorplan.

8. A method according to claim 7 including enabling the user to share the video data with a second user of a further client terminal.

9. A method according to claim 1 wherein configuring the client terminal to render each of the plurality of vector images with graphical characteristics determined by reference to the data points defined in the building management system includes configuring data binding between the client terminal and a remote data source that provides data indicative of instructions to modify the graphical characteristics of one or more of the vector images.

10. A method according to claim 1 wherein configuring the client terminal to render each of the plurality of vector images with graphical characteristics determined by reference to the data points defined in the building management system includes instructing the client terminal to modify the graphical characteristics of one or more of the vector images in response to changes in the associated data points in the building management system.

17. A method according to claim 1 including enabling a user to define video data representative of navigation of the rendered floorplan.

18. A method according to claim 17 including enabling the user to share the video data with a second user of a further client terminal.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing code that, when executed on one or more processors, causes the processors to perform a method according to claim 1.

20. A computer system configured to perform a method according to claim 1.

11. A computer implemented method for displaying facility information, the method including:

causing a client terminal to render on-screen floorplan data at a desired position and resolution, wherein the floorplan data is defined by a plurality of scalable resolution independent vector images, each resolution independent vector image representing a physical space in a facility; and

executing a set of rules thereby to apply determined visual characteristics to one or more of the vector images, wherein each of the one or more vector images is associated with a data point in a building management system, and wherein for a given vector image the set of rules defines a relationship between observed data point values and visual characteristics to be displayed.

12. A method according to claim 11 wherein the scalable resolution independent vector images include HTML5 Scalable Vector Graphics images.

13. A method according to claim 11 wherein, for a given vector image, the graphical characteristics determined by reference to a relationship between:

(i) a measured temperature value at the represented physical space; and

(ii) a defined temperature setpoint value defined for the represented physical space.

14. A method according to claim 11 wherein, for a given vector image, the graphical characteristics include a fill for the vector image.

15. A method according to claim 14 wherein the fill is characterized by a colour and/or pattern and/or opacity.

16. A method according to claim 14 wherein the fill is characterized by an alphanumeric information.