US 11,698,613 B2
System for monitoring smart utilities
Guru Charan Kottur, Telangana (IN); and Aditya Swami, Hyderabad (IN)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Appl. No. 17/252,965
Filed by CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 4, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/054719
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 16, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/086235, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201811040476 (IN), filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0240152 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 19/042 (2006.01); F24F 11/30 (2018.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.01); G08B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC G05B 19/042 (2013.01) [F24F 11/30 (2018.01); G08B 7/06 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.02); G05B 2219/25011 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
smart utilities and a personal smart device, wherein the smart utilities include: a utility controller; transportation equipment including an elevator; HVAC equipment electrical equipment including lighting; a safety device including one or more of a fire extinguisher and a hazard detector; and a security system component including a motion detector,
wherein smart utilities and a personal smart device is configured to:
communicate with the smart utilities over one or more networks that differ from each other,
transmit first instructions to the smart utilities to return self-identifying information,
wherein the self-identifying information includes: a type of smart utility; a geographic location identifying whether the smart utility is within a building or at an outside location; a floor in the building on which the smart utility is located; and a subdivision in the building where the smart utility is located, and
transmit second instruction to a plurality of the smart utilities, as a subgroup, to activate an identifying beacon,
wherein the subgroup includes more than one of the smart utilities grouped by the type of smart utility, the floor in the building on which the smart utility is located, and the subdivision in the building where the smart utility is located, and
wherein the identifying beacon is one or more of a visual and an audible identifier, and
wherein the personal smart device aggregates into a dataset of received self-identifying information from the smart utilities and forwards the aggregated dataset to a building management system (BMS) for monitoring and controlling of the smart utilities by the BMS.