Discovery and identification of equipment and operational data in a building automation system

摘要

An apparatus and a method for discovery and identification of equipment and operational data in a building automation system (BAS), wherein: a definition file is read into memory (502); a database of elements of the BAS is accessed (504); a subsystem of the BAS is selected (506); the database is searched and a mapping of points and equipment is generated (508); inconsistencies in the mapping is identified (510), e.g. equipment not discovered (512), equipment discovered in error (516), duplicate equipment discovered (520), incorrectly mapped point (524), unmapped points (528); and the inconsistencies are resolved, e.g. by identification of the equipment not discovered (514), by removing the equipment discovered in error (518), by removing the duplicate equipment (522), by remapping the incorrectly mapped point (526), by mapping unmapped points (530).