Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing privacy enabled surveillance for a portion of a building with a building automation system. The building automation system comprises sensors communicatively coupled to a controller. The controller detects a number of persons based on information from a first set of sensors, authenticates the number of persons detected with the first set of sensors by comparing the information from the first set of sensors with registered information of the building automation system, determines a number of authenticated persons, detects the number of persons based on information from a second set of sensors for detecting physical parameters associated with the portion of the building, and activates a sensor for surveillance based on a difference between the number of authenticated persons in the portion of the building and the number of persons detected by the second set of sensors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing privacy enabled surveillance for a portion of a building with a building automation system. The building automation system comprises sensors communicatively coupled to a controller. The controller detects a number of persons based on information from a first set of sensors, authenticates the number of person detected with the first set of sensors by comparing the information from the first set of sensors with a registered information with the building automation system, determines a number of authenticated person, detects a number of persons based on information from a second set of sensor for detecting physical parameters associated with the portion of the building, activates a sensor for surveillance based on difference between the number of determined number of authenticated person in the portion of the building and the number of detected person by the second set of sensors.

Abstract: A method and system for automatically generating process control databases and process graphics for a distributed control system is disclosed herein. Programmed process control database and process graphics generators automatically render output in a target process control system environment (e.g., InFusion Engineering Environment—or IEE) from an intermediate (e.g., XML) representation of process control and process graphics definitions.