Three-dimensional building management system visualization

Abstract

Systems, methods, and modes for on-demand rendering of a three-dimensional building management system visualization of a building via a web-browser. The system may comprise an uploader, a data extractor, a database, and at least one processor. The method and the system components are configured for uploading a building model data file to a building management server that comprises building objects combining geometry elements and spatial elements, parsing the uploaded building model data file into a geometry data file comprising the geometry elements and a separate spatial data file comprising the spatial elements, storing the geometry data file and the spatial data file on a database, associating the spatial elements in the spatial data file with respective space nodes identifying spaces located within the building, associating the space nodes with one or more electronic devices installed within respective spaces in the building, selectively recalling the geometry data file and spatial data file from the database, and rendering a three dimensional building visualization of the building via a user interface of a web-browser.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONTechnical Field[0001]Aspects of the embodiments relate to building management systems, and more specifically to systems, methods, and modes for rendering three-dimensional building visualization for commissioning, monitoring, and control of a building management system.Background Art[0002]Building management and automation is ever evolving to provide consumers with convenient and simple monitoring and control of various mechanical and electrical equipment within a building through building management systems (BMS), also known as building automation systems (BAS), and energy management systems (EMS). Building management systems provide comfort, convenience, simplicity and security, as well as lower energy costs. They generally utilize a network of sensor and control devices distributed throughout a residential or commercial building to control and provide information of the mechanical and electrical equipment within the building. The system can monitor and ...

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Benefits of technology

The patent is about a system and method for commissioning a building management system using a three-dimensional visualization of the building. This system helps to save time and reduce costs while also providing more effective means for testing and troubleshooting.

Problems solved by technology

Building management systems utilize complicated software that displays dashboards, graphs, organization-trees, and grids of data representing building status to system users, such as building managers.

Often the presentation of this data may be confusing, difficult to interpret, and not intuitive to usefully inform the building manager of the building status.

The standard grid view does not provide the user a visual sense of the correlation status among rooms that are neighboring or on the same floor.

For example, building managers spend a considerable amount of time scheduling automated events of a building.

The software to set up those schedules can be very confusing.

Consequently, scheduling of events becomes a tedious process and prone to errors due to vast amount of data entry and inability to conveniently perceive and review the scheduled events.

The commissioning process of control systems is likewise a long and complicated process.

While there are some current solutions to simplify the commissioning process, these are inadequate.

However, many such systems have not been fully enabled, implemented, or realized.

Such tools attempt to visually display vast amount of building modeling data, which may be complex, confusing, and difficult to interpret by users.

Moreover, to handle the data, such systems generally require the end users to purchase proprietary software and hardware, which may be expensive and impractical.

On the other hand, existing tools that allow rendering of a three-dimensional model through a browser still suffer from many setbacks.

Importing and processing large three-dimensional model data files via such tools is time consuming, causing system latencies and freezing of the browser.

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