Johnson Controls Technology Company

Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings Llp

Tyco Fire & Security Gmbh

Youngchoon Park

Sudhi R Sinha

Erik S Paulson

Vijaya S Chennupati

Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran

Justin J Ploegert

Karl F Reichenberger

Ada L Ma

Gerald A Asp

Sajjad Pourmohammad

Kelsey Carle Schuster

Peter A Craig

Elyse R Hobson

Zhongyi Jin

Donald R Albinger

Sujith Ebenezer

Young Min Lee

Vivek Narain

Steven R Vitullo

Joseph M Mueller

George R Oliver

Ambuj Shatdal

Andrew J Boettcher

Chenlu Zhang

Daniel M Curtis

Peter Alexander Ainsworth

Anne Gallagher

Sarah Just

Robert D Turney

Joseph R Ribbich

Vineet Binodshanker Sinha

Ryan A Piaskowski

Sugumar Murugesan

Radu M Dorneanu

John T Pierson

Nicolae Bogdan Pavel

Barkha Shah

Viswanath Ramamurti

David S Eidson

Federico Fala

Vipul Devre

Maebh Costello

Jacinta Moore

Sandeep K Sen

Daniel Kass

Errol Trunch

Dominick O'Dierno

Richard John Campero

John Peter Cipolla

Michael J Ajax

Michael L Ribbich

Charles J Gaidish

Michael F Kornacki

Derek Joseph Boyes

Terence Neill

Pravin J Duraisingh

Matthew T Trawicki

Jan Ray Holliday

Scott T Holland

Patrick E Harder

Jason Pelski

Daniel Mellenthin

Maria L Mejia

Jan R Holliday

Christopher Heidger

Simin Zhou

Kyle Richard Gustafson

Clifford H Copass

A building optimization system includes charging and discharging a battery of a battery power vehicle. The building optimization system includes a charging system configured to cause the battery of the battery powered vehicle to charge or discharge. The building optimization system also includes an optimization controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive charging constraints for the battery powered vehicle, determine whether to charge discharge the battery of the battery powered vehicle based on the charging constraints, and cause the charging system to charge or discharge the battery of the battery powered vehicle based on the optimization.

Building energy optimization system with battery powered vehicle cost optimization

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 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 computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive threats, the threats each indicating an incident affecting a dynamic risk score associated with an asset, wherein one or more of the threats are current threats that are active at a current point in time and one or more of the threats are historic threats that were active at one or more past times. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate, based on the one or more current threats, the dynamic risk score at the current point in time, generate, based on the one or more historic threats, a baseline risk score, and cause a user interface to display an indication of the dynamic risk score at the current point in time and an indication of the baseline risk score.

Building risk analysis system with risk cards

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 system including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate a user interface comprising a 2-dimensional (2D) model of a building and a 3-dimensional (3D) model of the building. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to receive a first user input indicating a selection of a first object. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to determine a physical space or equipment represented by the first object and one or more events associated with the physical space or equipment. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to receive a second user input indicating creation of an incident based on the one or more events and to initiate an automated response process in response to the creation of the incident.

Site command and control tool with dynamic model viewer

A method for visualizing a building model comprises retrieving an identifier associated with a digital representation of a building asset from a digital representation representing at least a portion of a building, retrieving, using the identifier, a graphical representation of the asset from a building model having a different format than the digital representation, and rendering the graphical representation on a display device.

Building management system with dynamic building model enhanced by digital twins

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 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

A method for generating a graph data structure comprises receiving, by one or more processors, data associated with a building, generating one or more space nodes in the graph data structure corresponding to spaces within the building based on the data, generating one or more asset nodes in the graph data structure corresponding to assets within the building based on the data, associating sensor data with the one or more asset nodes based on the data, classifying the sensor data based on the data, and generating a relationship between at least two of the one or more space nodes, the one or more asset nodes, and the classified sensor data.

Self-configuring building management system

A method for commissioning a building comprises identifying a building asset within a digital representation of a building having one or more parameters describing relationships of the building asset within the building, controlling one or more other building assets included within the digital representation to change an environmental parameter of the building, monitoring a response of at least one of the building asset or one of the one or more other building assets to the change in the environmental parameter, generating a parameter for the digital representation associated with the building asset based on the monitoring, and updating the digital representation using the parameter.

Building management system with auto-configuration using existing points

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Brookfield, WI, United States of America

Youngchoon Park