US 12,276,951 B2
Intelligent building management systems
Ionel Petrus, Silver Spring, MD (US); Elena Gowdy Charming, Arlington, VA (US); Ma Melissa Lim, Springfield, VA (US); and Stet Sanborn, Oakland, CA (US)
Assigned to SMITHGROUP COMPANIES, INC., Detroit, MI (US)
Filed by SmithGroup Companies, Inc., Detroit, MI (US)
Filed on May 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/748,696.
Application 17/748,696 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/163,133, filed on Jan. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,579,573.
Application 17/163,133 is a continuation of application No. 16/436,564, filed on Jun. 10, 2019, granted, now 10,908,564, issued on Feb. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/682,746, filed on Jun. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0283553 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G05B 13/04 (2006.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G05B 13/041 (2013.01) [G05B 13/0265 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G05B 2219/25011 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hierarchical resource analysis system for a building that has a plurality of zones each with a corresponding resource arranged to alter an environment of the zone, the system comprising:
one or more processors programmed to implement a plurality of causal agents and a causal coordinator,
each of the causal agents configured to report to the causal coordinator parameter values describing a state of the environment of one of the zones and parameter values describing a state of the corresponding resource for the zone, and
the causal coordinator configured to, responsive to indication that at least one of the parameter values describing a state of the environment of one of the zones is outside a predefined zone range and all of the parameter values describing the states of the corresponding resources for the zones are within corresponding predefined resource ranges, command at least one of the causal agents to operate the corresponding resource within an altered span of at least one of the predefined resource ranges that is derived from a causal analysis of the parameter values describing the states of the environments of the zones and parameter values describing the states of the corresponding resources for the zones such that the at least one of the parameter values describing the state of the environment returns to the predefined zone range.