Patent ID: 11953871
Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A controller for a building, the controller comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
parsing a computer-aided design (CAD) file or a building information model (BIM) file for the building to identify building equipment that operates to affect a variable state or condition of a zone of the building;
generating one or more zone models describing one or more control relationships between the building equipment and the variable state or condition of the zone based on the CAD file or the BIM file;
using the one or more zone models to perform a model-based operation for the building equipment;
determining if any properties of the building equipment cannot be obtained based on the CAD file or the BIM file;
in response to a determination that one or more properties of the building equipment cannot be obtained based on the CAD file or the BIM file, notifying a user regarding the one or more properties of the building equipment that cannot be obtained; and
receiving values of the one or more properties of the building equipment from the user, the one or more control relationships determined based on the values of the one or more properties of the building equipment.