US 12,267,181 B2
Systems and methods for configuring and operating building equipment using causal and spatial relationships
Dominick M. Deligio, Lake Villa, IL (US); Jason T. Sawyer, Greendale, WI (US); and Dimitrios S. Papadopoulos, Westwood, NJ (US)
Assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH, Neuhausen am Rheinfall (CH)
Filed by Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Filed on May 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/741,769.
Application 17/741,769 is a continuation of application No. 16/406,994, filed on May 8, 2019, granted, now 11,362,852.
Prior Publication US 2022/0271967 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 16/909 (2019.01)
CPC H04L 12/2809 (2013.01) [G06F 16/909 (2019.01); H04L 12/2816 (2013.01); H04L 12/2827 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A building management system, comprising:
a memory storing relationships between a plurality of building objects representing building equipment and building spaces; and
a processor configured to:
provide configuration data associated with a first building object of the plurality of building objects if a new configuration for the first building object will bring a value of a variable of interest to within a range of values, the first building object representing a first piece of heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment;
identify a second building object based on a stored causal relationship in the memory between the first building object and the second building object if a new configuration for the first building object will not bring the value of the variable of interest to within the range of values, the second building object representing a second piece of HVAC equipment, the stored causal relationship indicating that the second piece of HVAC equipment provides input to the first piece of HVAC equipment; and
automatically generate configuration data for the second building object to bring the value of the variable of interest to within the range of values.