45results about "Catathermometers" patented technology

A system determines dew point and temperatures through a mobile platform. The system identifies a likelihood of condensation forming on a roadway surface. A controller may process the data to determine the likelihood of frost, ice, and / or black ice conditions. Some systems provide aural, visual, and / or tactile signals or feedback to identify a condition or a change in conditions. The change, condition, and / or data may be associated with position data.

Data on indoor air quality can be obtained using air monitoring stations. Air stations can provide information on odor and chemicals, microscopic airborne particulates, carbon monoxide, relative humidity, temperature and carbon dioxide. This data on indoor air quality, however, does not in itself provide a sufficiently comprehensive picture of indoor air quality. The data can be correlated with an infrared home inspection to facilitate the identification of factors affecting indoor environmental quality in a specific residence. Additionally, data on air quality can be obtained using mold air samples. Additional data on indoor environmental quality can be obtained using a sound pressure level meter to measure sound levels (indoor / outdoor) and temperature changes over time. A report on indoor environmental quality can be provided to a homeowner.

Methods and systems that determine automatically the likelihood that a device is inside or outside of a structure or building. The system uses one or more sensors to detect ambient conditions, and make the determination. The inference can be used to save power or suppress services from certain devices, which are irrelevant, cannot be used effectively, or do not function under certain circumstances. In support thereof, the system includes one or more context sensors that measure parameters associated probabilistically with the context of a device. A context computing component considers one or more context sensors and facilitates determination of ideal actions, policies, and situations associated with the device. A service provided by the subject invention is the inference from one or more available observations the probability that the device is inside versus outside.

A step of preparing data of (1) material properties of a first part and so on and data of (2) an amount of solar radiation passing through the translucent member to reach a measuring device having a shape imitating a human body part, an amount of solar radiation to the structure, an amount of convection heat transfer in the structure, an amount of radiation heat transfer in the structure, humidity in the structure and / or a thermo-regulating function of the measuring device, and calculating at least one of the amount of heat loss from the surface of the measuring device, the temperature of the measuring device and / or the wettedness at the surface of the measuring device based on at least one in each of data (1) and (2), and a step (b) of calculating a thermal comfort index of the measuring device by using a result of the above calculation, are presented, whereby the thermal comfort of a structure is evaluated without using a laboratory equipment.

A system determines temperatures and relative humidity from a mobile platform. The system includes a mobile sensor that measures relative humidity and a second mobile sensor that measures temperatures. A processor processes the sensor data to determine temperatures at which quantities of air retaining water vapor may be cooled to cause a condensation. The temperatures may be linked to position data that identifies position in many weather conditions.

A device for determining the ambient heat index and communicating that information to a user, the device having a housing member, a control mechanism, and a power source. The control mechanism includes a microprocessor, an air temperature measuring device, and a relative humidity measuring device, wherein the air temperature measuring device and the relative humidity measuring device respectively determine the user's ambient air temperature and ambient relative humidity and communicate that information real time to the microprocessor for determination of the heat index. The control mechanism has a display mechanism for displaying the heat index, and another display mechanism for displaying the ambient temperature and the ambient relative humidity. Switches permit manual operation of activation of the display mechanisms. The control mechanism may also include a signaling device for signaling the user when the ambient heat index reaches a certain predetermined condition, and an attaching mechanism for attaching the housing member to the user.

Surface modification control stations and methods in a globally distributed array for dynamically adjusting the atmospheric, terrestrial and oceanic properties. The control stations modify the humidity, currents, wind flows and heat removal rate of the surface and facilitate cooling and control of large area of global surface temperatures. This global system is made of arrays of multiple sub-systems that monitor climate and act locally on weather with dynamically generated local forcing & perturbations for guiding in a controlled manner aim at long-term modifications. The machineries are part of a large-scale system consisting of an array of many such machines put across the globe at locations called the control stations. These are then used in a coordinated manner to modify large area weather and the global climate as desired. The energy system installed at a control stations, with multiple machines to change the local parameters of the ocean, these stations are powered using renewable energy (RE) sources including Solar, Ocean Currents, Wind, Waves and Batteries to store energy and provide sufficient power and energy as required and available at all hours. This energy is then used to do directed work using special machines, that can be pumps for seawater to move ocean water either amplifying or changing the currents in various locations and at different depths, in addition it will have machineries for changing the vertical depth profile of the ocean of temperature, salinity and currents. Control stations will also directly use devices such as heat pumps to change the temperatures of local water either at surface or at controlled depths, or modify the humidity and salinity to change the atmospheric and oceanic properties as desired. The system will work in a globally coordinated manner applying artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to learn from observations to improve the control characteristics and aim to slow down the rise of global surface temperatures. These systems are used to reduce the temperatures of coral reefs, arctic glaciers and south pacific to control the El Nino oscillations.

The invention provides a temperature, humidity and dew point measurer, characterized by comprising apparatus box, observe coating, key seat and keys, RS232 interface, sensor interface, adapter interface, screw, circuit board, MCU, master control and peripheral circuits, liquid crystal module and interface, communication module, memory module, clock module, power consumption management module, voice module and interface, JATG interface, button cell, voltage stabilizing module, cell charging module, Lithium cell and interface, sensor box, sensor circuit board, sensor and interface, and sensor connections, and it is used to measure and record environmental temperature, humidity and dew point.

A method for deploying at least one climate sensor in an indoor space includes: several candidate deploy points in the indoor space are obtained. Climate properties at the candidate deploy points are obtained. Deploy-point-number limit is obtained. Available deploy point sets, which conform to the deploy-point-number limit, are generated according to the candidate deploy points. Climate-property differences of the available deploy point sets are calculated according to the climate properties at the candidate deploy points. The climate-property differences of the available deploy point sets are differences between the climate properties at the available deploy point sets and those at the candidate deploy points. A target deploy point set, climate-property difference of which is the least among those of the available deploy point sets, is selected from the available deploy point sets. At least one first climate sensor is deployed at the target deploy point of the target deploy point set.

The invention provides a severe-cold-area outdoor thermal comfort degree real-time evaluation method based on local correction UTCI. The method comprises the following steps of step1, using an Internet of things cloud platform to establish a severe-cold-area local outdoor thermal sensation voting database; step2, establishing a severe-cold-area local meteorological database; step3, calculating local Tmrt and UTCI values, carrying out regional correction on a local UTCI scale and calculating a real-time pressure type, and compiling a data interaction interface program and realizing data cloud transmission and cloud downloading; and step4, using a miniature card computer and the Internet of things cloud platform to store, process, actually measure and calculate data, carrying out remote monitoring through a terminal, and realizing real-time evaluation through a display device. In the invention, severe-cold-area outdoor thermal comfort degree real-time evaluation can be realized, the terminal is used to carry out remote, off-site, real-time monitoring, and simultaneously, the local outdoor thermal sensation voting database is combined so that the accuracy and reliability of the evaluation can be greatly improved and a technology support is provided for the travel decision of residents in a severe cold area.

The invention discloses a device and method for evaluating an outdoor environment comfort level of a building. The device is an outdoor environment evaluation device which integrates a plurality of testing instruments and a plurality of sensors and is used to measure parameters related to a human body comfort level, wherein a user can select a measurement manner, and results are output by a display. The device has the advantages of a simple structure, low manufacture cost and a wide utilization scope. The evaluation manner provided by the invention is more accurate and scientific than single thermal environment comfort level evaluation, wherein a comprehensive evaluation core based on a network index system is applied; a weight of each single-item index is acquired by an analytic network process method ANP; and thus evaluation of the comprehensive comfort level is acquired. The evaluation manner is different from a single tree-form structure and a tree-like structure of other evaluation methods.

The present invention includes methods, systems and computer-readable media for more accurately determining wind chill temperature, Twc, equivalent temperature, Teq, time to freeze, tf, facial temperature, Tfm+Δt, as a function of time and the altitude correction factor, Δtf / 1000. The wind chill model of the present invention accounts for the two major heat losses (forced convection, radiation) and a minor heat loss (evaporative cooling) from the facial surface and is also capable of accounting for the two major heat gains (metabolic, solar) at the facial surface due to the individual's physical activity and the presence of sunshine. The wind chill model of the present invention also provides a more accurate value for the wind velocity at head level.

An enclosure having a front and back and including at least one environmental parameter detector is built. The environmental parameter detector is electrically coupled with a display mechanically attached to the front or back of the enclosure. The display may be programmed to show a variety of environmental parameters from the at least one environmental parameter detectors inside the enclosure. An optional alarm may be mechanically attached to the enclosure configured to activate when one or more of the environmental parameters exceeds their defined margin.

The invention relates to a portable personal data processing device, such as a wrist-worn measuring device, a heart rate monitor, a subscriber terminal of a radio system, or a sports watch. The device includes a temperature sensor for measuring the ambient temperature and a humidity sensor for measuring the ambient humidity. Furthermore, dependence information, which defines temperature values of the dew points corresponding to the humidity values, is stored in the device. The control unit is configured to monitor the change rate of the measured temperature, to determine, on the basis of the change rate, the moment at which the temperature reaches the temperature value of the dew point corresponding to the measured humidity on the basis of the dependence information, and to provide a forecast on fog appearance in relation to the moment employing the user interface.