METHODS OF INTEGRATING MULTIPLE MANAGEMENT DOMAINS

摘要

An integrated solution strategy that integrates multiple domains together in a seamless and standardized way for increasing a users control over facilities and equipment. This integrated approach can lead to a reduction of energy usage, more efficient energy usage, increased safety, health, and security of a facility and its occupants, optimized production in industrial settings, and associated and other economic advantages. Accurate, reliable information about a facility or equipment is essential to making timely, informed decisions. Enhanced automation provides a reliable means of collecting and assembling a variety of operating data and archiving that data into a central database for evaluation, reporting, forecasting, and negotiation with resource marketers.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of integrating data indicative of multiple sensed conditions received from multiple management domains, comprising:
receiving, at a computer first data from a first management domain comprising an arrangement of mutually related systems, the first data being indicative of at least one sensed condition in at least one of said mutually related systems, wherein the first data is communicated according to a communications protocol and formatted according to an application interface, and wherein the mutually related systems include a plurality of networked devices each of which communicates to another of the devices; receiving, at the computer second data from a second management domain comprising an arrangement of mutually related systems, the second data being indicative of at least one sensed condition in at least one of the mutually related systems of the second management domain, wherein the second data is communicated according to the same communications protocol as the first data and formatted according to the same application interface as the first data, and wherein the mutually related systems include a plurality of networked devices each of which communicates to another of the devices in the second system; storing the first data and the second data in a memory device accessible by the computer; displaying, on a video display coupled to the computer, a video image indicative of the first data and the second data; automatically determining, based on the first data and the second data and by the computer, an action related to a consumable resource; and displaying on the video display information indicative of the action.