Patent ID: 9703276
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G05B,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for creating an equipment definition for a type of building equipment in a building automation system, the method comprising: receiving, at a processing circuit, a user selection of an archetypal device of a type of building equipment of the building automation system; identifying, by the processing circuit, one or more data points associated with the archetypal device, wherein each of the identified data points comprises a text string specific to the archetypal device; automatically creating, by the processing circuit for each of the identified data points, an abstraction of the text string specific to the archetypal device, wherein the abstraction of the text string comprises a portion of the text string that is applicable to multiple different devices of the same type of building equipment; generating, by the processing circuit, a point definition for each identified data point associated with the archetypal device, each point definition comprising the abstraction of the text string of the corresponding data point; using the generated point definitions to create, by the processing circuit, an equipment definition for the type of building equipment, the equipment definition comprising one or more of the generated point definitions; storing the equipment definition in a data storage device; using the equipment definition to automatically create a plurality of equipment objects, each of the equipment objects corresponding to one of the multiple different devices of the same type of building equipment; and using the equipment objects to monitor and control the multiple different devices to affect a variable state or condition within a building.