Interactive navigation environment for building performance visualization

• US 10,429,862 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2017
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Garr, Matthew E., Rojicek, Jiri, Bicik, Vladimir, Foslien, Wendy
• Primary Examiner(s): McDowell, Jr., Maurice L.
• Application Number:
  US15/700,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20180074530A1
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1917 using digital means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/283 Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

A tool for providing a visualization of a system may reveal an interactive navigation environment for building performance observation and assessment. The tool may be associated with a processor. The environment may incorporate a treemap, a graph pane, a treemap filter, a graph pane selector, a selected units box and a date/time control mechanism. A visualization of the environment, among other things, may be presented on a display. The treemap may exhibit a building geometry and/or equipment units hierarchically, along with some data information. Units may be interactively selected from the treemap and placed in the box for analysis. The graph pane may show a configuration and display of unit analysis. Selection of detailed views for units in the box may be provided by the graph pane selector. Date and time intervals for analysis may be selected by the control mechanism.

Claims

1. A system having an interactive navigation environment for building performance visualization, comprising:

a processor;

a display connected to the processor;

heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment having sensors connected to the processor; and

a visualization tool for monitoring building performance connected to the processor; and

wherein the visualization tool is configured to present and filter building energy performance in response to a user selected analytic.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user selected analytic is automated fault detection and diagnostics.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user selected analytic is control inefficiency.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the user selected analytic is energy consumption.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein in the selected analytic causes the processor to display one or more menus and/or filters related to the selected analytic.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the visualization tool comprise a treemap and a graph pane.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the treemap is a visualization of a hierarchical structure comprising items representing building geometry and HVAC equipment.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the graph pane is configured to display data or analytic results related to one or more items selected from the treemap.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the data or analytic results are presented as a summary view, a detail view, or a combination of the summary and detail views.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the summary view, the detail view or the combination of the summary and detail views is selected from a group consisting of bar charts, heatmap timeline plots, pie charts, listings and profiles.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the visualization of the hierarchical structure is based on the selected analytic.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a treemap filter configured to allow a user to select the user selected analytic.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the treemap filter comprises one or more dropdown boxes, sliders, or other controllers that allows a user to select from a predefined list of analytics.

14. An interactive navigation environment system comprising:

a processor;

a display connected to the processor;

heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment having sensors connected to the processor; and

a visualization tool for energy consumption monitoring provided by the processor via the display; and

wherein the visualization tool provides an interactive navigation environment having a treemap filter and a treemap.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the visualization tool is configured to present summary analytic results, guide a user through a detailed analysis, allow for dynamic filtering of results, and/or allow for selection of a specific HVAC equipment component or building zone.

16. A method for navigating an interactive environment for a visualization of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) performance within a building, comprising:

selecting an analytic from a treemap filter to display a hierarchal structure of at least a portion of one or more components forming an HVAC system within a building;

displaying a treemap of the hierarchal structure of the one or more components; and

selecting one or more components for a detailed analysis to display a detailed or summary view of the selected components in a graph pane of a display.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising selecting a date and/or time interval for detailed analysis.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the treemap is configured to be displayed in a first area of a display and the detailed or summary view if configured to be displayed in a second area of a display.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more components displayed are filtered according to a fault relevancy.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the fault relevancy of a component is determined by a number of faults that occur relative to the component over a predetermined length of time.