Abstract: The improved building automation system of the present invention is modular in the extreme. This diminishes the amount of custom programming required in order to affect control of a particular building. It allows for a relatively open architecture which can accommodate a variety of unique control applications which are scripted for a particular building. By modularizing many of the common processes utilized in the automation system, the custom programming required to control any particular building is minimized. This modularity in design allows for uniform and coordinated control over a plurality of automation subsystems which may be incompatible with one another at the device or machine level, but which can be controlled utilizing a relatively small and uniform set of “interprocess control commands” which define an interprocess control protocol which is utilized in relatively high level scripts and control applications which may be written for a particular building.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 30, 2001
Publication date:
February 7, 2002
Applicant:
INTELIHOME, INC., Texas corporation
Inventors:
Marjorie L. Smith, Mark E. Smith, Richard R. Gelling, Michael L. Cogbill
Abstract: An improved building automation system is provided which is modular in design thus minimizing the amount of instruction necessary to affect control of a particular building system. A relatively small set of interprocess control commands define an interprocess control protocol which is utilized in relatively high level scripts and control applications. The improved building automation system operates to translate control instructions in one particular control protocol to control instructions in a second control protocol. A text parsing program routes interprocess communication commands between modular communication programs to affect control over the automated building systems. The text parsing program includes executable instructions which allow for conditional communication of interprocess control commands depending upon system events.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 20, 2001
Assignee:
Intelihome, Inc.
Inventors:
Marjorie L. Smith, Mark E. Smith, Richard R. Gelling, Michael L. Cogbill