Patent ID: 6859668
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A structured system for monitoring and controlling engineering equipment units and apparatus of the engineering equipment in an installation, mainly a building comprising several floors, that includes a central computer module with an input-output device as well as a plurality of monitoring and/or measuring and/or control sensors and/or control devices for the engineering equipment units and apparatus of the engineering equipment in the building connected via communications hubs to a centralized power supply system having a central distribution frame and the engineering equipment units and apparatus of the engineering equipment for independent control of said equipment, said computer module comprising: a programmable computer server station having functions, according to software that provide for a centralized acquisition of monitoring date through information channels within a single network protocol, as well as for a processing of said monitoring data and for outputting of control signals to control sensors or control devices for the engineering equipment units and apparatus of the engineering equipment in the building, wherein the structured system includes corresponding controllers placed at points of location of the communications hubs connected in a hierarchical-star circuit or a bus circuit to the central distribution frame of the centralized power supply system and units for off-line control of the engineering equipment, with the corresponding controllers further connected in a hierarchical-star circuit or a bus circuit to the input-output device of the central computer module, each of said corresponding controllers having a plurality of remote input-output modules connected serially or in said star circuit thereto, while each of said modules has a corresponding monitoring and/or measuring and/or control sensor and/or control device for each specific unit of the engineering equipment units or apparatus of the engineering equipment in the building connected thereto, and in that said engineering equipment units and apparatus of the engineering equipment includes at least one additional computer station linked through its input-output module via a local area network with the central computer module and, via a dedicated channel, the corresponding controller that ensures, according to the software, the local monitoring and the control of the engineering equipment units and apparatus of the engineering equipment in at least one functionally independent section of the engineering equipment in the building, and each of the at least one additional computer stations being connected with one another over an information channel in a hierarchical-star circuit via local area network hubs interposed in the dedicated channels.