Patent ID: 8090675

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a commissioning server operative to receive information, via a wide area network, corresponding to monitored air temperatures associated with an environment; operating an environment controlling asset in accordance with a predetermined business strategy to control a temperature of the environment, the environment controlling asset being located remotely from the commissioning server and comprising at least one of a heating ventilation air condition (HVAC) system, a variable air volume component, an air handler unit, and a chiller, the environment controlling asset providing an input that affects the temperature associated with the environment, the commissioning server in communication with the environment controlling asset via the wide area network; identifying responder data points associated with the environment controlling asset, each of the responder data points corresponding to one of the monitored air temperatures associated with the environment controlling asset; storing information corresponding to the responder data points in the commissioning server; identifying predictor data points associated with the environment controlling asset, each of the predictor data points corresponding to one of the monitored air temperatures and one of the responder data points such that an operational correlation exists between each of the predictor data points and its corresponding responder data point, each one of the predictor data points and corresponding one of the responder data points defining a predictor/responder pair; storing information corresponding to the predictor data points in the commissioning server; monitoring the air temperatures; comparing the air temperatures associated with each of the predictor/responder pairs to determine deviations from predefined standards for the pairs; and identifying an error in operation of the environment controlling asset in accordance with the predetermined business strategy responsive to determining that any of the deviations fails to correspond to a respective predefined standard for the respective predictor/responder pair.