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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2001
Richard Combs, Plantation, FL (US);
Walter Flugel, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Richard Combs, Plantation, FL (US);
Walter Flugel, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Energy Control Technologies, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
An automated building service broker can include a Global Positioning System (GPS) data processor for processing GPS data associated with communicatively linked service providers wherein the GPS data corresponds to a geographic position. The automated service broker also can include an event handler for responding to maintenance and repair events received from communicatively linked building systems. Finally, the automated building service broker can include a service provider selector for selecting a particular service provider to respond to a particular received maintenance and repair event received from a particular communicatively linked building system. More particularly, the service provider can be selected based on whether the selected service provider is suitable to perform required maintenance and repair on the particular communicatively linked building system, and the geographic position of the particular service provider relative to the particular building system as reported by GPS data associated with the particular service provider.