Patent EP-4177681-A1 (EP)
Inventor: HEDIGER MICHAEL
IPC: G05B15/02
Filed: 2018-08-20
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for commissioning an HVAC system of a building structure with a control structure (100), a fluid conduit system (3), a communication network (4) and a plurality of HVAC devices connected over the communication network (4) to the control structure (100), wherein the plurality of HVAC devices comprises fluid control devices (11, 12, 13) and sensor devices (21, 22), wherein the fluid control devices comprise at least one fluid flow generation device (11), wherein the control structure (100) has a plurality of control devices, the method comprising: 1) step S0: a model of the HVAC system is created at a remote computer with all the HVAC devices to be installed in the building structure and the control structure (100), the model comprising one or more of the following information: representations of the control devices of the control structure; representations of the HVAC devices, with representations of the fluid control devices (11, 12, 13) and of the sensor devices (21, 22); assignments from each representation of a HVAC device to at least one representation of the control devices; information about units and sub-units of the building structure and the HVAC devices associated to these units and sub-units; wherein a configuring section (150) has access to said model of the HVAC system stored in memory; 2) step S1: the HVAC devices are installed in the building structure; 3) step S2: the HVAC devices are registered, the registration including an identification of the HVAC device by reading an identifier of the HVAC device with a mobile device of a user, the registration information being then transferred to the configuring section (150); 4) step S3: an address section automatically assigns network addresses to the HVAC devices, and the assigned network addresses are sent to the configuring section, wherein the HVAC devices send their identifier to the configuring section (150) such that the configuring section (150) can identify and address each HVAC device; 5) step S4: check if there has been an error detected in the installation of the HVAC devices, such as when the number of actuators, the actuators being comprised by the fluid control devices, or sensor devices per sub-unit is different than in the sub-unit of the corresponding model; 6) step S5: one fluid control device is selected; 7) step S6: a fluid control parameter of the selected fluid control device is changed or varied; 8) step S7: a variation of a sensor parameter at at least one of the sensor devices (21, 22) caused by the variation of the fluid control parameter is determined; 9) step S8: the at least one sensor device determined is assigned to the selected fluid control device and to the corresponding at least one representation of the sensor devices in the model;10) step S9: check if there are remaining fluid control devices which have not yet sensor devices assigned; if yes, the steps S5 to S8 are repeated for each selection of fluid control device(s); if no, the method continues with step S10; and 11) step S10: a configuration of the control structure (100) and/or the HVAC system is performed on the basis of the assignments determined in the previous steps.