DYNAMICALLY EXTENSIBLE AND AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURABLE BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A building automation system (BAS) architecture is disclosed. The BAScomprises, in one embodiment, an architecture comprising a communicationnetwork and having a dynamic extensibility capability and an automaticconfiguration capability; an engine communicatively coupled to thecommunication network; and at least one control device communicatively coupledto the communication network, the control device being known or unknown to theengine. The engine can be adapted to selectively implement the dynamicextensibility capability to establish communications with and to control bothknown and unknown control devices. The engine can be further adapted toselectively implement the automatic configuration capability to determine atleast one characteristic of both known and unknown control devices. A methodof adding a control device to a building automation system (BAS) bydynamically extending and automatically configuring an architecture of the BASis also disclosed.