Patent ID: 9571986
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for detecting and using equipment location in a building management system for a building, the method comprising: receiving measured location information at a processing circuit, wherein the measured location information is obtained by one or more measurement devices at one or more physical locations of building equipment in a building management system, the building equipment comprising a first BMS device and one or more other BMS devices; automatically determining, by the processing circuit, the physical locations of the building equipment in the building management system using the measured location information; ranking each of the other BMS devices based on a physical distance between the first BMS device and the other BMS devices, wherein each physical distance is a function of the physical location of the first BMS device and one of the physical locations of the other BMS devices; generating an association between the first BMS device and one of the other BMS devices based on a result of the ranking; and controlling a building zone by operating the one of the other BMS devices to affect an environmental condition of the building zone.