Granted Patent B2

US 12,292,720 · App. 18/375,871 · Granted May 6, 2025

Inventors: Youngchoon Park (Brookfield, WI); Sudhi R. Sinha (Milwaukee, WI); Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran (Brookfield, WI); Erik S. Paulson (Madison, WI); Vijaya S. Chennupati (Brookfield, WI); Kelsey C. Schuster (Wauwatosa, WI)

Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

G05B15/02G06F16/288G06N5/043H04L12/2827H04L2012/285

Abstract

Claims (62)

1. A system comprising one or more non-transitory storage devices, the one or more non-transitory storage devices storing a digital twin thereon, wherein the digital twin comprises a contextual description representing a plurality of entities, wherein the digital twin includes a graph including a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of entities and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing relationships between the plurality of entities,

wherein the one or more non-transitory storage devices have instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

implement an agent for at least one entity of the plurality of entities, wherein the agent extracts information from at least a portion of the digital twin and performs one or more operations on the extracted information to generate one or more operational settings associated with the at least one entity; and

ingest, by the agent, the one or more operational settings into the digital twin by:

identifying a node of the plurality of nodes; and

storing the one or more operational settings in the node.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the agent is configured to:

receive data from a first piece of equipment, the data indicating operations of the first piece of equipment, and wherein the at least one entity of the plurality of entities includes the first piece of equipment;

generate the one or more operational settings associated with the at least one entity by processing the data received from the first piece of equipment; and

deploy the one or more operational settings to the first piece of equipment.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the agent is configured to:

store one or more channel subscriptions and one or more channel publication assignments;

subscribe to one or more channels based on the one or more channel subscriptions to receive first data published on the one or more channels by one or more other agents; and

publish second data to the one or more channels based on the one or more channel publication assignments to publish the second data on the one or more channels to the one or more other agents.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein a type of the at least one entity is linked to a particular type of the agent.

5. The system of claim 1 , the agent is configured to:

receive first data published on an agent communication channel by a second agent;

identify, based on the first data, second data of the digital twin; and

execute an algorithm based on the first data and the second data.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more non-transitory storage devices store a plurality of agent templates;

wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

determine whether to instantiate the agent by analyzing the digital twin;

select an agent template from the plurality of agent templates in response to a determination to instantiate the agent; and

instantiate the agent based on the agent template.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the agent is configured to:

retrieve the portion of the digital twin associated with an algorithm executed by the agent; and

execute the algorithm based on the portion of the digital twin to generate the one or more operational settings.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system further comprises a device, wherein the device is configured to run the agent, wherein the device is at least one of a sensor, an actuator, or a controller.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to run the agent.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of entities comprise at least one of equipment, spaces, or people.

11. A method of agent based digital twin processing, the method comprising:

causing, by one or more processing circuits, a storage device to store a digital twin, wherein the digital twin comprises a contextual description representing a plurality of entities, wherein the digital twin includes a graph including a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of entities and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing relationships between the plurality of entities;

implementing, by the one or more processing circuits, an agent to execute for at least one entity of the plurality of entities, wherein the agent extracts information from at least a portion of the digital twin and performs one or more operations on the extracted information to generate one or more operational settings associated with the at least one entity; and

ingesting, by the one or more processing circuits, the one or more operational settings into the digital twin by:

identifying a node of the plurality of nodes; and

storing the one or more operational settings in the node.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein a type of the at least one entity is linked to a particular type of the agent.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving, by the agent, first data published on an agent communication channel by a second agent;

identifying, by the agent, based on the first data, second data of the digital twin; and

executing, by the agent, an algorithm based on the first data and the second data.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

causing, by the one or more processing circuits, the storage device to store a plurality of agent templates;

determining, by the one or more processing circuits, whether to instantiate the agent by analyzing the digital twin;

selecting, by the one or more processing circuits, an agent template from the plurality of agent templates in response to a determination to instantiate the agent; and

instantiating, by the one or more processing circuits, the agent based on the agent template.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the agent is configured to:

retrieve the portion of the digital twin associated with an algorithm executed by the agent; and

execute the algorithm based on the portion of the digital twin to generate the one or more operational settings.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of entities comprise at least one of equipment, spaces, or people.

17. A system, comprising:

one or more computer readable medium that store a digital twin thereon, wherein the digital twin comprises a contextual description representing a plurality of entities, wherein the digital twin includes a graph including a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of entities and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes representing relationships between the plurality of entities; and

one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored on the one or more computer readable medium causing the one or more processors to:

implement an agent to execute for at least one entity of the plurality of entities, wherein the agent extracts information from at least a portion of the digital twin and performs one or more operations on the extracted information to generate one or more updates associated with the at least one entity; and

ingest, by the agent, the one or more updates into the digital twin by:

identifying a node of the plurality of nodes; and

storing the one or more updates into the node.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the agent is configured to:

retrieve the portion of the digital twin associated with an algorithm executed by the agent; and

execute the algorithm based on the portion of the digital twin to generate the one or more updates.

19. The system of claim 17 , wherein the agent is configured to perform an optimization, and wherein the one or more updates are a result of performing the optimization.

20. The system of claim 17 , wherein a type of the at least one entity is linked to a particular type of the agent.

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