Generating a three dimensional building management system

• US 9,727,667 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2013
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Denning, Richard, Rasane, Shailesh, Cockburn, Mark, Kiff, Liana M., Chen, Henry, Plocher, Tom, Beaulieu, Conrad B.
• Primary Examiner(s): He, Yingchun
• Application Number:
  US13/914,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20140365181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,520 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/00 3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering

Abstract

Devices, methods, and systems for generating a three dimensional building management system are described herein. One method includes inputting, into a three dimensional graphics rendering engine, building information modeling data associated with a building, inputting, into the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, real time building management system data associated with the building, and generating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a three dimensional building management system for the building based on the building information modeling data and the real time building management system data.

Claims

1. A method for generating a three dimensional building management system, comprising:

inputting, into a three dimensional graphics rendering engine, building information modeling data associated with a building;

inputting, into the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, real time building management system data associated with the building, wherein the real time building management system data associated with the building includes a current operating state of a number of components of the building that changes over time; and

generating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a three dimensional building management system for the building based on the building information modeling data and the real time building management system data, wherein generating the three dimensional building management system includes;

generating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a three dimensional surface from the building information modeling data;

extracting, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, the number of components of the building, and static data associated with the number of components that does not change over time, from the building information modeling data;

binding, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, each of the number of components of the building, and the static data associated with the number of components, to a corresponding building management system representation of that respective component;

updating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, the number of components of the building based on the real time building management system data;

predicting, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a sequence of future events associated with abnormal conditions in the number of components of the building using the real time building management system data and

displaying, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, the predicted sequence of future events.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes:

transposing the building information modeling data into a standardized format associated with the three dimensional graphics rendering engine; and

inputting the transposed building information modeling data into the three dimensional graphics rendering engine.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the three dimensional building management system includes:

binding, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, the three dimensional surface to the building management system representations of the number of components of the building.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the three dimensional building management system includes modeling, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, real world causes and effects of the abnormal conditions in the number of components of the building using the real time building management system data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the building information modeling data is static data; and

the real time building management system data is dynamic data.