# DP Automation

> DP Automation builds AI software for HVAC and building automation. It collects trend data from a building's existing control system (Niagara 4, EC-Net, BACnet/IP), shows it in a fast web trend viewer, and uses AI to review the data and write engineering findings. Based in San Diego, California. Contact: dallas@dpautomation.net

## What it does

- **Trend Viewer** (live): every HVAC trend log from every building in one phone-friendly web viewer. Overlay points, zoom into any time range. Each login sees only its own buildings.
- **AI Trend Review** (live): reads days or weeks of building automation trend data and writes a findings report: what is wrong, the evidence from the data, and what to check first.
- **Sequence Checks**: turns a written sequence of operations into checks and grades each unit PASS or FAIL against real trend data, for commissioning and functional testing.
- **Ask Your Building** (in development): plain-English questions answered from the building's trend data. Read-only by design.
- **Service Reports** (live): phone-first app that turns a technician's notes, photos and voice memos into a letterheaded service report (Word or PDF).
- **Install Checklists** (live): per-equipment controls installation checklists built from the controls drawings, with photo proof and sign-off.

## What the AI review finds

- Dead, stale, flatlined and out-of-range sensors
- Starved VAV boxes: dampers pinned open while airflow falls short of setpoint
- Zones that cannot hold setpoint
- Plant equipment short cycling, hunting or running when it should not
- Equipment that does not follow its sequence of operations

## Key facts

- Works with: Niagara 4 and EC-Net 4 stations (Tridium, Distech Controls and other Niagara-based systems) by scheduled history push; other BACnet/IP systems through a small on-site collector.
- Read-only: never writes setpoints, schedules or commands to building equipment.
- Privacy: each building's data is stored in its own database; demos use a fictional building.
- How it differs from rule-based fault detection and diagnostics (FDD): instead of a long list of fixed-rule alarms, the AI groups related symptoms into a short list of findings, shows the evidence in plain English, and says what to check first.
- For: facility managers and building owners, controls contractors and service technicians, commissioning agents.
- Founder: Dallas Probert, building automation specialist, Tridium Niagara 4 certified, B.S. Engineering Physics, programming and servicing HVAC controls since 2018.

## Links

- [Home](https://dpautomation.net/)
- [FAQ](https://dpautomation.net/#faq)
- [Contact](mailto:dallas@dpautomation.net)