Johnson Controls Technology Company

Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings Llp

Tyco Fire & Security Gmbh

Sudhi R Sinha

Youngchoon Park

Erik S Paulson

Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran

Vijaya S Chennupati

Justin J Ploegert

Karl F Reichenberger

Ada L Ma

Joseph R Ribbich

John Peter Cipolla

Michael L Ribbich

Charles J Gaidish

Kelsey Carle Schuster

Sajjad Pourmohammad

Donald R Albinger

Elyse R Hobson

Claudio Santiago Ribeiro

Robert D Turney

Gerald A Asp

Vinosh C Diptee

Sujith Ebenezer

Julio A Abdala

William Paul Alberth, Jr

Amit Verma

Joseph M Mueller

Robert B Locke

Felippe M Bicudo

Juan Guillermo Alvarez

Patricia Ellis Douglass

Hao A Nguyen

Daniel M Curtis

George R Oliver

Damon Bryan Smith

John T Pierson

John Michael Reiszl

John Robert Taylor, Jr

Peter Alexander Ainsworth

Anne Gallagher

Sarah Just

Michael J Wenzel

Mohammad N ElBsat

Young Min Lee

Vineet Binodshanker Sinha

Michael F Kornacki

Pravin J Duraisingh

Dominick O'Dierno

Daniel Kass

Errol Trunch

Sandeep K Sen

Kirk H Drees

Richard John Campero

Walter Andrew Martin

Miguel Galvez

Ryan A Piaskowski

Steven R Vitullo

Abhigyan Chatterjee

Clay G Nesler

Rajesh C Nayak

Shawn D Schubert

Subrata Bhattacharya

Andrew J Boettcher

Derek Joseph Boyes

Terence Neill

Jason T Sawyer

Matthew T Trawicki

Kirk P Henderson

Masayuki Nonaka

Thomas M Seneczko

Tulshiram Vitthalrao Waghmare

Patrick E Harder

James Young

Siddharth Goyal

Yoshiko Watanabe

Jason Pelski

Daniel Mellenthin

Zhizhong Pang

Kurt Joseph Mease

Kyle Richard Gustafson

Kyle David Paull

Sujith J Ebenezer

Sankeeth K Chinta

Juilio A Abdala

A building management system includes an entity database, a software defined gateway, and an entity service. The entity database stores a plurality of interconnected smart entities including object entities representing a plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces and data entities representing data associated with the plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities. The software defined gateway is configured to receive information technology (IT) data and operational technology (OT) data from a plurality of different data sources. The entity service is configured to create a new smart entity in the entity database or update an existing smart entity in the entity database using the IT data and the OT data. The new or existing smart entity includes one or more first attributes having values derived from the IT data and one or more second attributes having values derived from the OT data.

Building management system with integration of data into smart entities

A building system for operating a building and managing private building information includes a processing circuit configured to receive a request for information for a building entity of a building entity database. The processing circuit is configured to select one of the mask templates from the entity database based on access values associated with the requesting device and a relational link between the building entity and the mask templates, retrieve private information for the building entity in response to a reception of the request for the information, and generate a masked information data structure based on the private information and the one of the mask templates.

Building system with smart entity personal identifying information (PII) masking

One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including generating a database of interconnected smart entities. The smart entities include sensor object entities representing each of the plurality of sensors and data entities representing measurements received from the sensors. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a new measurement from a first sensor, identify a first data entity from a relational object for the first sensor, the first data entity including a plurality of past measurements received from the first sensor, and modify the first data entity within the database of smart entities to include the new measurement received from the first sensor.

Web services for smart entity management for sensor systems

A model predictive maintenance (MPM) system for building equipment includes an operational cost predictor configured to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period, a maintenance cost predictor configured to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period, and an objective function optimizer configured to optimize an objective function to predict a total cost associated with the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period. The objective function includes the predicted cost of operating the building equipment and the predicted cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment. The MPM system includes an equipment controller configured to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building in accordance with values of one or more decision variables obtained by optimizing the objective function.

Model predictive maintenance system for building equipment

A building system for identity management of a building, the building system including one or more storage devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request to determine whether an entity has a privilege and determine whether the entity has the privilege by querying, based on the request, a graph database to identity information of the graph database that indicates whether the entity has the privilege, wherein the graph database stores nodes representing at least one of users, equipment, events, or spaces of the building, wherein the graph database stores edges between the nodes representing relationships between the users, equipment, events, or spaces. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate a response including a determination whether the entity has the privilege.

Building management system with identity management

A building management system includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a publication by an agent on an agent communication channel, the publication comprising timeseries data, identify, based on the publication, an object entity of an entity database associated with the agent, wherein the entity database includes one or more object entities and relationships between the one or more object entities and one or more data entities, identify a data entity related to the object entity based on a relationship of the relationships relating the object entity and the data entity, and ingest the timeseries data into the data entity.

Building system with digital twin based agent processing

A system for a building management system simulation includes one or more processors and memory. The memory includes instructions stored thereon, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate a space agent representing a space in a building, the space agent to maintain an environmental condition of the space based on an optimization state of the space, generate an equipment agent representing a device that serves the space, and register the space agent and the equipment agent to a space communication channel associated with the space. The space agent communicates with the equipment agent over the space communication channel.

Systems and methods for digital twin-based equipment control

A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment, an eventseries generator, and a storage interface. The building equipment are configured to generate a plurality of data samples. Each of the data samples includes a data value and a timestamp. The eventseries generator is configured to assign a sample state to each data sample based on the data value of the data sample and generate one or more events based on the timestamp of each data sample and the sample state assigned to each data sample. Each of the events includes a start time, an end time, and an event state. The eventseries generator is configured to generate an eventseries including the one or more generated events. The storage interface is configured to store the eventseries in an eventseries database.

Building management system with eventseries processing

A building system includes one or more storage devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an unstructured user question from a user device of a user and query a graph database based on the unstructured user question to extract context associated with the unstructured user question from contextual information of a building stored by the graph database, wherein the graph database stores the contextual information of the building through nodes and edges between the nodes, wherein the nodes represent equipment, spaces, people, and events associated building and the edges represent relationships between the equipment, spaces, people, and events. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to retrieve data from one or more data sources based on the context and compose a presentation based on the retrieved data.

Building system with user presentation composition based on building context

A method of software gateways of a building, the method including generating a ledger file including a description of a first software gateway, wherein the ledger file further includes first point assignments for the first software gateway and second point assignments for a second software gateway, wherein a first computing system implements the first software gateway and a second computing system implements the second software gateway and communicating the ledger file to the first software gateway and the second software gateway. The method further including managing, by the first software gateway, first points of the first point assignments based on the ledger file and managing, by the second software gateway, second points of the second point assignments based on the ledger file and determining, by the second software gateway, a status of the first software gateway based on the description of the first software gateway of the ledger file.

Building system with ledger based software gateways

A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that cause one or more processors to store a graph data structure in a data storage device including a plurality of nodes representing a plurality of entities and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing a plurality of relationships between the plurality of entities, wherein the plurality of entities include a first entity representing one of a person, place, or piece of equipment of the building, wherein a second entity of the plurality of entities represents a software component, wherein the software component performs operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment of the building indicated by one or more edges of the plurality of edges relating the first entity to the second entity and cause the software component to execute and perform the operations for the person, place, or piece of equipment.

Space graph based dynamic control for buildings

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a software defined alarm control unit (SDACU) to augment an existing fire panel, the SDACU configured to receive, from one or more sensors distributed within a building via the existing fire panel, a fire detection signal, generate, based on the fire detection signal, an operating command for one or more fire response devices associated with the building, and generate a graphical representation of the building, the graphical representation including a status of at least one of the one or more fire response devices.

Systems and methods for software defined fire detection and risk assessment

A building management system with artificial intelligence based control of a building includes data collectors are configured to receive data and generate data streams for subsystems of the building. The system includes a learning engine configured to identify a building state of the building by correlating data of the data streams for the subsystems and provide the identified building state to cognitive agents. The system includes the cognitive agents, each of the cognitive agents configured to receive the identified building state from the learning engine, generate a control decision based on the received building state, and operate at least one of the plurality of subsystems of the building to control a physical condition of the building based on the control decision.

Building management system with artificial intelligence for unified agent based control of building subsystems

A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment configured to provide samples of one or more data points in the building management system and a timeseries service. The timeseries service is configured to identify a first timeseries processing workflow that uses an input timeseries as an input and defines processing operations to be applied to the samples of the input timeseries, perform the processing operations defined by the first timeseries processing workflow to generate a first derived timeseries comprising a first set of derived timeseries samples, identify a second timeseries processing workflow that uses the first derived timeseries as an input and defines processing operations to be applied to the samples of the first derived timeseries, and perform the processing operations defined by the second timeseries processing workflow to generate a second derived timeseries comprising a second set of derived timeseries samples.

Building management system with nested stream generation

A web services platform includes a data collector and a timeseries service. The data collector is configured to collect feedback samples provided by one or more sensors of a building management system and generate one or more feedback timeseries including a plurality of the feedback samples. The timeseries service is configured to identify a feedback control workflow that uses the feedback timeseries as an input and defines one or more processing operations to be applied to the feedback samples of the feedback timeseries, perform the one or more processing operations defined by the feedback control workflow to generate a control signal timeseries including a set of control signal samples, and provide a control signal including at least one of the control signal samples or the control signal timeseries as an output to controllable building equipment of the building management system that operate using the control signal as an input.

Web services platform with cloud-based feedback control

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Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

Sudhi R Sinha