BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WITH METADATA CUSTOMIZATION

1 . A method for a building automation system (BAS), the method comprising:

providing, by a processing circuit, a system library file in an editable spreadsheet format;

importing, by the processing circuit, a controller application file into the system library file;

editing the system library file to include user defined tags; and

automatically add the user defined tags to a tag dictionary.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuit is enabled to select a pre-defined default tag dictionary associated with a station as the tag dictionary.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuit is enabled to receive the tag dictionary from a user interface when a station is not associated with a pre-defined default tag dictionary.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the editable spreadsheet format is an excel format.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a user interface produces an indication to manage de-linking of one or more tags of tagged entities in the building automation system (BAS).

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user defined tags comprises a marker, a label-value pair or a collection of information.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user defined tags are associated with a space, a piece of equipment, a sensor, a device, or a point.

8 . A method of managing tagging of entities in a building management system (BMS), comprises:

receiving, by a processing circuit, a system library file in a text file format;

copy the system library file to an editable spreadsheet format;

editing the system library file in the editable spreadsheet format to include user defined tags; and

add the user defined tags to a tag dictionary.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the text file format is an XML format.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the system library file in the editable spreadsheet format comprises a template worksheet for a type of library.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the type of library is determined by header information in the system library file in the text file format.

12 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the user defined tags are associated with an entity comprising one of a space, a piece of equipment, a sensor, a device, or a point.

13 . A building management system (BMS), comprising:

a system library comprising a plurality of relationships between a plurality of tags and a plurality of entities; and

a computing system in communication with the system library, wherein the computing system is configured to provide data from a system library file in a text format to a system library file in a spreadsheet format, edit the system library file in the spreadsheet format to include user defined tags, and add the user defined tags to a tag dictionary.

14 . The building automation system of claim 13 , wherein the user defined tags comprise point names.

15 . The building management system (BMS) of claim 13 , wherein the system library file in editable spreadsheet format comprises a template worksheet for a type of library.

16 . The building management system (BMS) of claim 14 , wherein the computing system is configured to import a controller application file to the system library file in the spreadsheet format.

17 . The building management system (BMS) of claim 14 , wherein the computing system is configured to import a WT400 file to the system library file in the spreadsheet format.

18 . The building management system (BMS) of claim 17 , wherein the tag dictionary comprises a template worksheet with named ranges for the user defined tags.

19 . The building management system (BMS) of claim 17 , wherein the user defined tags are associated with an entity comprising one of a space, a piece of equipment, a sensor, a device, or a point.

20 . The building management system (BMS) of claim 17 , wherein auto tagging is applied to the tag dictionary.