Patent ID: 11961387
Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method of operating a computing device for a fire control system, comprising:
receiving, from a database of an architectural modeling system external to the fire control system:
a graphical representation of a facility;
location information associated with a number of components of the fire control system, wherein the location information associated with each respective component indicates a location of that component in the facility; and
type information associated with the number of components of the fire control system, wherein:
the number of components include a number of different types of components including sensors, alarms, fans, dampers, and sprinklers; and
the type information associated with each respective component indicates which type of the number of different types of components that component is;

integrating the location information and type information associated with each respective component of the fire control system in the graphical representation of the facility such that:
the graphical representation includes a representation of each respective component;
the graphical representation includes a representation of which type of the number of different types of components each respective component is in the graphical representation; and
a location of the representation of each respective component in the graphical representation corresponds to the location of that component in the facility; and

displaying the graphical representation of the facility with the location information and type information associated with each respective component of the fire control system integrated therein on a user interface of the computing device.