POSITIONING SYSTEM LEVERAGED FOR INSTALLATION AND COMMISSIONING

• US 20160205721A1
• Filed: 01/14/2015
• Published: 07/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Sanghamitra, Gutha Stalin, Gonia, Patrick, Roosli, Philipp, Geary, Bernard T.
• Granted Patent: US 10,660,154 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/01 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A leveraged positioning system for installation of devices within campuses and buildings. A mobile device may have a position indicator associated with it. A campus or building information model may be available for reference relative to a location of the mobile device as noted by the position indicator. A location name may be derived from the model and used for an installed device since the mobile device is at the position of the installed device during placement of the installed device. A physical address may be assigned to the installed device. The physical address and the location name may be stored as a pair in memory for the device. Additional devices for installation may be treated similarly.

Claims

1. A leveraged indoor positioning system comprising:

a mobile device;

a position indicator, which is a position tracking mechanism that is either built-in or connected to the mobile device; and

a building information model comprising data, related to locations and dimensions of parts of a building, available for reference to the mobile device; and

wherein;

the position indicator determines a current position in terms of coordinates of a reference system of the building information model for the mobile device;

the current position is looked-up in the building information model to determine data related to a location of the current position; and

the data related to the location are transferred from the mobile device to an installed device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the position indicator has detection of one or more wireless beacons; and

the position indicator determines the current position from a detection of data regarding the one or more wireless beacons, a direction and strength of a wireless signal, and a relative distance between the one or more wireless beacons and the position indicator.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more wireless beacons can be an external device of the installed device that is used as aid for installation or can be built into a device being installed.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the data related to the location are descriptive of the location indicated by the position indicator within the building information model.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein a unique physical address is assigned to the location of the current position of the installed device.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the unique physical address and the location are stored as a pair in a table in a storage memory.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein additional one or more devices are installed like the installed device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein one or more pairs of the physical addresses and the locations of the installed device and the additional one or more installed devices are stored in the table in the storage memory.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein a commissioning tool has an auto-download command that can be executed to query the storage memory for configuration data for each installed device, look up a physical address of an installed device using the table, and download configuration data of the installed device to the installed device.

10. A leveraging mechanism of positioning comprising:

a campus or building information model;

a mobile device;

a position indicator associated with the mobile device;

one or more situated devices; and

a storage memory; and

wherein;

the position indicator provides a location to the mobile device;

the location is looked up by the mobile device in the campus or building information model to determine a location name;

the location name is transferred to a situated device installed at the location provided by the position indicator; and

the situated device is a component of a building system.

11. The mechanism of claim 10, wherein a building system comprises one or more items selected from a group consisting of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, security systems, refrigeration systems, fire systems, and closed circuit television systems.

12. The mechanism of claim 10, wherein:

information regarding the situated device is automatically or manually transferred from the situated device to the mobile device; and

the information is transferred by an approach selected from a group consisting of optical reading a label on the situated device, infrared transmission, and RF transmission.

13. The mechanism of claim 10, wherein the location being provided to the mobile device and the location being looked up in the campus or building information model to determine a location name are automated.

14. The mechanism of claim 10, wherein configuration data for the one or more situated devices that have been installed are automatically pushed from a configuration database to the one or more situated devices.

15. The mechanism of claim 10, wherein a situated device that has been installed can reveal its location name and model information, and request its configuration data from a configuration database.

16. The mechanism of claim 13, wherein if the location name of a situated device has changed, the situated device can automatically seek and request a configuration update.

17. The mechanism of claim 10, further comprising:

a commissioning tool; and

wherein;

the commissioning tool queries the one or more situated devices for their location names and matches the situated devices with entities in a database using the location names for look-up and match; and

once a match is established, the commissioning tool downloads configuration data of an entity corresponding to the location name used for the look-up and match, to the respective situated device.

18. The mechanism of claim 10, wherein an initiation of an auto-download command from the commissioning results in a query of the one or more situated devices for their location names and matching the situated devices with entities in a database using location names for a look-up match, and, upon an establishment of a match, results in a download of configuration data of an entity corresponding to the location name used for the look-up and match, to the respective situated device.

19. The mechanism of claim 10, further comprising:

an installation tool; and

wherein;

the installation tool generates and assigns a unique physical address to the location name of each of the one or more situated devices being installed;

the physical address of each of the one or more situated devices is input to the mobile device; and

the mobile device stores the physical address and the location name of each situated device as a pair in a storage memory resulting in a list of physical address and location name pairs for virtually all of the situated devices being installed.

20. A method for leveraging an indoor positioning system, comprising:

installing at least one immobile device with a mobile device placed virtually at a current position of the immobile device;

determining a current position of the mobile device in terms of location coordinates with a tracking mechanism, within a building;

correlating the location coordinates to a location having a descriptive name in a building information model of the building;

assigning a unique physical address to the current position; and

storing the position and the physical address in a memory device.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising determining a location name for the current position of the immobile device from the descriptive name.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

storing the physical address and location as a pair in a storage device; and

repeating steps of claims 20-22 for virtually all immobile devices being installed.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein:

at an end of the method, a list of physical address and location name pairs is situated in the storage device; and

a tool can query a database for configuration data intended for each immobile device and look-up a physical address of a device using the list of pairs and download configuration data to the immobile device.