Building management system site categories

Abstract

An approach relating to providing a user an ability to place sites into multiple categories and providing applications an ability to query a configuration for members of the categories. The approach not only may provide a user an ability to easily create, deploy, modify and monitor a multi-site enterprise hundreds and thousands of remote building management system site controllers and allow the user to establish each site within the context of a single enterprise group, but it may also incorporate where the site controllers can be identified, sorted or managed within multiple categorical groupings. For example, categorical groupings may facilitate managing the configurations at the sites, applying an operational setting by selecting a logical category, applying common operating parameters to multiple sites, and so forth.

1 . A site category approach for viewing components, comprising:
 connecting to a supervisor;   navigating to a component console;   requesting components from a database; and   filtering component records on a site category in a view of the component console.   
     
     
         2 . The approach of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the database comprises an component collection; and   the component collection is provided by the site controller.   
     
     
         3 . The approach of  claim 2 , wherein:
 the site controller comprises a site controller enterprise model element set;   the site controller enterprise model element set comprises an enterprise model site element; and   the enterprise model site element comprises a site category property.   
     
     
         4 . The approach of  claim 3 , wherein the enterprise model is appended with a site category to components. 
     
     
         5 . The approach of  claim 4 , wherein components are selected out from the site controller model enterprise element set and provided to the database. 
     
     
         6 . The approach of  claim 1 , wherein a component is an alarm. 
     
     
         7 . A site category approach for viewing histories, comprising:
 connecting to a supervisor;   navigating to a history viewer;   selecting a site category to view history; and   selecting sites for a selected site category.   
     
     
         8 . The approach of  claim 7 , further comprising:
 selecting a controller and history points;   retrieving history logs from a database in a supervisor data server; and   viewing history data in the history logs.   
     
     
         9 . The approach of  claim 8 , wherein:
 the database comprises a history collection; and   the history collection is provided by the site controller.   
     
     
         10 . The approach of  claim 9 , wherein:
 the site controller comprises a site controller enterprise model element set;   the site controller enterprise model element set comprises an enterprise model site element; and   the enterprise model site element comprises a site category property.   
     
     
         11 . The approach of  claim 10 , wherein the enterprise model is appended with a site category to history logs. 
     
     
         12 . The approach of  claims 11 , wherein history logs are selected out from the site controller enterprise model element set and provided to the database. 
     
     
         13 . A site category approach for navigating to sites, comprising:
 navigating to a main table view;   retrieving enterprise model elements from an enterprise element tree node in a supervisor data server;   showing a list of site categories; and   selecting a site category.   
     
     
         14 . The approach of  claim 13 , further comprising:
 showing a list of sites in the selected category; and   selecting a site from the list of sites in the selected category.   
     
     
         15 . The approach of  claim 14 , further comprising:
 selecting a site controller; and   connecting to the site controller.   
     
     
         16 . An approach for adding a site category comprising:
 accessing a user interface console;   connecting to a supervisor;   navigating to a site node in a site navigation tree;   obtaining access to an enterprise model site element; and   adding a site category entity to the enterprise model site element.   
     
     
         17 . The approach of  claim 16 , wherein the site category entity comprises a site category property. 
     
     
         18 . The approach of  claim 16 , further comprising updating a site controller with a site property. 
     
     
         19 . The approach of  claim 16 , wherein the enterprise model site element is in the supervisor. 
     
     
         20 . The approach of  claim 16 , wherein the enterprise model site element is in the site controller.