Granted Patent B2

US 12,241,647 · App. 17/708,929 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Inventors: Shawn D. Schubert (Oak Creek, WI); Vineet Binodshanker Sinha (Brookfield, WI); Mohammad N. Elbsat (Milwaukee, WI); Michael J. Wenzel (Grafton, WI); Kirk H. Drees (Cedarburg, WI)

Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH

F24F11/49F24F11/37F24F11/38F24F11/46F24F11/56G05B17/02G05D23/1917G05D23/193G06F3/04817G06F3/0482G06Q10/20G06Q50/163H04L51/046

Abstract

Claims (79)

1. A building system of a building including one or more non-transitory storage devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

receive a plurality of data samples from building equipment of the building;

identity a number of one or more data samples of the plurality of data samples that are anomalous indicating that one or more pieces of the building equipment are possibly experiencing a fault;

compare a number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment with a number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment to determine a proportion of the number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment to the number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment;

decrease a value of the proportion based on the number of the one or more data samples that are anomalous to generate one or more data health scores for the building equipment, the one or more data health scores indicating quality levels of the plurality of data samples;

generate user interface data configured to cause a user device to display a user interface providing indications of the one or more pieces of building equipment that are possibly experiencing the fault and the one or more data health scores and at least one indication of the proportion of the number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment to the number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment; and

based on the generated one or more data health scores, communicate operational commands to the building equipment causing the building equipment to operate to improve the quality levels of the plurality of data samples.

2. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

perform one or more operations based on the one or more data health scores, wherein the one or more operations improve the quality levels of the plurality of data samples.

3. The building system of claim 2 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to perform the one or more operations by generating a work order including instructions to perform one or more maintenance activities on the building equipment, wherein performing the one or more maintenance activities on the building equipment improves the quality levels of the plurality of data samples.

4. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the building equipment includes a plurality of pieces of building equipment of the building;

wherein the one or more data health scores include an overall data health score for the building indicating an overall data health of data of the plurality of pieces of building equipment.

5. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

record a plurality of values of a health score of the one or more data health scores over time as the plurality of values are generated;

generate a trend element, the trend element providing a trend of the plurality of values of the health score; and

cause the user interface to include the trend element.

6. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of data samples include a plurality of building data sample sets produced by a plurality of pieces of building equipment of the building equipment;

wherein the plurality of pieces of building equipment include a first piece of building equipment of a first type that provides a first data sample set and a second piece of building equipment of a second type that provides a second data sample set;

wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

generate a first data health score based on the first data sample set and a second data health score based on the second data sample set;

generate a user interface element including:

a first indication of the first type and a first corresponding indication of the first data health score; and

a second indication of the second type and a second corresponding indication of the second data health score; and

cause the user interface to include the user interface element.

7. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

receive first data samples from a first piece of building equipment associated with a first building and receive second data samples from a second piece of building equipment associated with a second building;

generate a first data health score for the first building, the first data health score indicating first quality levels of the first data samples;

generate a second data health score for the second building, the second data health score indicating second quality levels of the second data samples;

generate a user interface element including:

a first indication of the first building and a first corresponding indication of the first data health score;

a second indication of the second building and a second corresponding indication of the second data health score; and

cause the user interface to include the user interface element.

8. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

execute a first application and a second application;

identify, from the plurality of data samples, a first data set consumed by the first application and a second data set consumed by the second application;

generate a first data health score based on the first data set and a second data health score based on the second data set;

generate a user interface element including a first indication of the first application and a first corresponding indication of the first data health score and a second indication of the second application and a second corresponding indication of the second data health score; and

cause the user interface to include the user interface element.

9. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the building equipment include a first building device and a second building device;

wherein the plurality of data samples includes first building data samples of the first building device and second building data samples of the second building device;

wherein the one or more data health scores include a first data health score for the first building device based on the first building data samples and a second data health score for the second building device based on the second building data samples;

wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

generate a user interface element including a first indication of the first building device and a first corresponding indication of the first data health score and a second indication of the second building device and a second corresponding indication of the second data health score; and

cause the user interface to include the user interface element.

10. The building system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to identify data anomalies of the plurality of data samples by performing at least one of:

determining whether a data value of a data sample of the plurality of data samples is outside a range of values;

determining whether values of data samples of the plurality of data samples change at a rate that is outside a range of rates of change; or

performing a peer comparison by comparing data samples of the plurality of data samples of the building equipment to a peer metric, the peer metric based on data samples of a plurality of pieces of building equipment of a same type as the building equipment.

11. The building system of claim 10 , wherein the value of the proportion decreases non-linearly with an increase to a number of data anomalies of the plurality of data samples.

12. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processing circuit, a plurality of data samples from building equipment of a building;

identifying, by the processing circuit, a number of one or more data samples of the plurality of data samples that are anomalous indicating that one or more pieces of the building equipment are possibly experiencing a fault;

comparing, by the processing circuit, a number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment with a number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment to determine a proportion of the number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment to the number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment;

decreasing, by the processing circuit, a value of the proportion based on the number of the one or more data samples that are anomalous to generate one or more data health scores for the building equipment, the one or more data health scores indicating quality levels of the plurality of data samples;

generating, by the processing circuit, user interface data configured to cause a user device to display a user interface providing indications of the one or more pieces of building equipment that are possibly experiencing the fault and the one or more data health scores and at least one indication of the proportion of the number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment to the number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment; and

based on the one or more data health scores generated by the processing circuit, communicating, by the processing circuit, operational commands to the building equipment causing the building equipment to operate to improve the quality levels of the plurality of data samples.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

recording, by the processing circuit, a plurality of values of a health score of the one or more data health scores over time as the plurality of values are generated;

generating, by the processing circuit, a trend element, the trend element providing a trend of the plurality of values of the health score; and

causing, by the processing circuit, the user interface to include the trend element.

14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

executing, by the processing circuit, a first application and a second application;

identifying, by the processing circuit, from the plurality of data samples, a first data set consumed by the first application and a second data set consumed by the second application;

generating, by the processing circuit, a first data health score based on the first data set and a second data health score based on the second data set;

generating, by the processing circuit, a user interface element including a first indication of the first application and a first corresponding indication of the first data health score and a second indication of the second application and a second corresponding indication of the second data health score; and

causing, by the processing circuit, the user interface to include the user interface element.

15. The method of claim 12 , further comprising identifying, by the processing circuit, data anomalies of the plurality of data samples by performing at least one of:

determining whether a data value of a data sample of the plurality of data samples is outside a range of values;

determining whether values of data samples of the plurality of data samples change at a rate that is outside a range of rates of change; or

performing a peer comparison by comparing data samples of the plurality of data samples of the building equipment to a peer metric, the peer metric based on data samples of a plurality of pieces of building equipment of a same type as the building equipment.

16. A building system of a building including:

one or more non-transitory storage devices storing instructions thereon; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instructions causing the one or more processors to:

receive a plurality of data samples from building equipment of the building;

identity a number of one or more data samples of the plurality of data samples that are anomalous indicating that the building equipment is experiencing a fault;

compare a number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment with a number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment to determine a proportion of the number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment to the number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment;

decrease a value of the proportion based on the number of the one or more data samples that are anomalous to generate one or more data health scores for the building equipment, the one or more data health scores indicating quality levels of the plurality of data samples;

generate user interface data configured to cause a user device to display a user interface providing indications of the one or more pieces of building equipment that are possibly experiencing the fault and the one or more data health scores and at least one indication of the proportion of the number of the plurality of data samples received from the building equipment to the number of the plurality of data samples expected to be received from the building equipment; and

based on the generated one or more data health scores, communicate operational commands to the building equipment causing the building equipment to operate to improve the quality levels of the plurality of data samples perform one of more operations based on the one or more data health scores, wherein the one or more operations improve the quality levels of the plurality of data samples.

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