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Systems and methods for detecting and using equipment location in a building management system

  • US 9,571,986 B2
  • Filed: 05/07/2014
  • Issued: 02/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for detecting and using equipment location in a building management system for a building, the method comprising:

  • receiving measured location information at a processing circuit, wherein the measured location information is obtained by one or more measurement devices at one or more physical locations of building equipment in a building management system, the building equipment comprising a first BMS device and one or more other BMS devices;

    automatically determining, by the processing circuit, the physical locations of the building equipment in the building management system using the measured location information;

    ranking each of the other BMS devices based on a physical distance between the first BMS device and the other BMS devices, wherein each physical distance is a function of the physical location of the first BMS device and one of the physical locations of the other BMS devices;

    generating an association between the first BMS device and one of the other BMS devices based on a result of the ranking; and

    controlling a building zone by operating the one of the other BMS devices to affect an environmental condition of the building zone.

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