Building analytic device

• US 9,141,912 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intelligent Buildings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Buildings, LLC
• Inventors: Shircliff, Thomas, Murchison, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, ALAN S
• Application Number:
  US13/873,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20130297550A1
• Time in Patent Office: 875 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 11/01 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/025 Extracting rules from data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

An information analytic system including an information gathering unit configured to gather at least one piece of information from at least one of a plurality of devices connected to a network, an information analysis unit configured to analyze the gathered information, and a rule generation unit configured to generate at least one rule based on the analysis performed by the information analysis unit. The rule analysis unit is configured to analyze each generated rule to identify the rules that can be applied to the corresponding piece information, and to apply applies the identified rule to the corresponding piece of information. The rule analysis unit is also configured to analyze unapplied rules and to determine what additional information is required to apply each unapplied rule to at least one piece of information.

Claims

1. An information analytic system including:

an information gathering unit configured to gather at least one piece of information from at least one of a plurality of devices connected to a network;

an information analysis unit configured to analyze the gathered information;

a rule selection unit configured to select at least one rule from a pre-defined set of rules based on the analysis performed by the information analysis unit;

a rule analysis unit configured to analyze each selected rule to identify other rules from the pre-defined set of rules that can be applied to a corresponding piece information; and

the rule analysis unit applies the identified rules to the corresponding piece of information,

wherein,

the rule analysis unit is configured to analyze unapplied rules and to determine what additional information is required to apply each unapplied rule to at least one piece of information.

2. The information analytic system of claim 1, wherein the information analysis unit categorizes and stores the information in an information storage unit.

3. The information analytic system of claim 2, wherein the information analysis unit relates each piece of information to another piece of information based on a category assigned to each piece of information.

4. The information analytic system of claim 2, wherein each piece of information is categorized based on at least, a location associated with each piece of information, a device associated with each piece of information, or an operational attribute of each piece of information.

5. The information analytic system of claim 2, wherein the information storage unit stores each piece of information in a graphical format in a database.

6. The information analytic system of claim 1, wherein the rule analysis unit generates a list of additional information to add to enable the application of an unapplied rule based on rules applied to similarly categorized pieces of information with similar relationships.

7. The information analytic system of claim 1, wherein the rule analysis unit continuously executes the conditions of each rule.

8. The information analytic system of claim 1, wherein each rule relates to the operation of a building system.

9. The information analytic system of claim 8, wherein each piece of information relates to a component of a building system.

10. An information analysis unit for analyzing information gathered from a network, the information analysis unit including a memory and a processor that execute an application, the application performing the steps of:

gathering at least one piece of information from at least one of a plurality of devices connected to the network;

analyzing the gathered information;

selecting at least one rule from a pre-defined set of rules based on the analysis of each piece of information;

analyzing each selected rule to identify other rules from the pre-defined set of rules that can be applied to a corresponding piece of information,

applying each identified rule to the corresponding piece of information; and

analyzing each unapplied rule to determine what additional information is required to apply each unapplied rule to at least one piece of information.

11. The information analysis unit of claim 10, wherein each piece of information is categorized and stored in the memory.

12. The information analysis unit of claim 11, wherein each piece of information is related to a corresponding piece of information based on the category of each piece of information.

13. The information analysis unit of claim 11, wherein each piece of information is categorized based on at least, a location associated with each piece of information, a device associated with each piece of information, an operational attribute of each piece of information, or any other attribute that can define each piece of information.

14. The information analysis unit of claim 11, wherein each piece of information is stored in a graphical format in a database residing in the memory.

15. The information analysis unit of claim 10, including the step of generating a list of additional information to add to enable the application of an unapplied rule based on rules applied to similarly categorized pieces of information with substantially similar relationships.

16. The information analytic system of claim 10, including the step of continuously executing the conditions of each rule.

17. The information analysis unit of claim 10, wherein each rule relates to the operation of a building system.

18. The information analytic system of claim 10, wherein each piece of information relates to a component of a building system.