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Methods and systems are described for the automation of a human living environment such as a home, an apartment, a workplace, or a vehicle. The methods and systems are directed to the control of various groups of objects within the human living environments according to defined criteria and defined object groupings, in a manner that establishes operational themes and scenarios within the environment. The methods and systems utilize devices for characterizing the environment (sensors), making decisions about actions appropriate in the environment (processors), and effecting actions and activities within the environment (switches, controls and actuators). The automation operates on multiple levels including; responsive safety functionality, one time action functionality, sporadically initiated timed action functionality, and periodically scheduled action functionality. The systems integrate with off-site information and action routing services that increase the decision making ability of the individuals within the environment.

An improved electronic lock with keyless, cardless digital key system and integrated facilities management and administration system is provided for use in multi-unit buildings, particularly in hospitality industry. The present invention relates generally to a network architecture that integrates a wireless communication network device operating a plurality of electronic locks, and the all-inclusive property administration and management system in a multi-unit facility such as a hotel or a condominium.

A method and apparatus for connecting and operating plurality of lockers in a multi apartment or multi office building connected via an interface to a video interphone system and via a local guardman or a virtual guardman over a network, for providing access to the building and opening a locker for a deliveryman to deliver packages, parcels and ordered goods. The tenants receiving a message through their video interphone monitor can retrieve the deliveries by opening the specific locker from their video interphone monitor, through the entry panel and through associated accessories.

A method for protecting local area networks within a selected local geographic region (e.g. office, apartment, building, coffee shop, hot-spot etc.) from wireless attacks, using a wireless sniffer apparatus. The method includes placing one or more wireless sniffer apparatus spatially to provide substantial radio coverage over at least a portion of the selected local geographic region comprising one or more local area networks. Moreover the method includes coupling one or more of the wireless sniffer apparatus to one or more of the local area networks.

An occupancy database is in electronic communication with a plurality of location-specific distributed computing entities to maintain real-time update occupancy data for various entities. As those entities relocate from one location to another (e.g., moving from one apartment to another), distributed computing entities associated with both the prior and new location of the entity transmit information to the occupancy database to reflect the changed location for the entity. The occupancy database also maintains communication data for the entities and / or locations associated with the entities, and the occupancy database may share that communication data with authorized mobile / user computing entities to enable communication between those authorized mobile / user computing entities and the particular entity or devices located at the entity's location.

A door lock particularly suited for an apartment or condominium where the resident has an entry key and management personnel also have a key that will allow access to the apartment, the door lock having a spring loaded axial pin which is retained in an externally visible position when the lock is actuated by the resident's key and which is released to an externally non-visible position when the lock is actuated by the management key.

Environmental characteristics of habitable environments (e.g., hotel or motel rooms, spas, resorts, cruise boat cabins, offices, hospitals and / or homes, apartments or residences) are controlled to eliminate, reduce or ameliorate adverse or harmful aspects and introduce, increase or enhance beneficial aspects in order to improve a “wellness” or sense of “wellbeing” provided via the environments. Control of intensity and wavelength distribution of passive and active Illumination addresses various issues, symptoms or syndromes, for instance to maintain a circadian rhythm or cycle, adjust for “jet lag” or season affective disorder, etc. Air quality and attributes are controlled. Scent(s) may be dispersed. Noise is reduced and sounds (e.g., masking, music, natural) may be provided. Environmental and biometric feedback is provided. Experimentation and machine learning are used to improve health outcomes and wellness standards.

A system measures electrical energy usage and combines the measured energy usage with other utility commodity usage for communication and data collection. The system is capable of metering electrical power utility services to residential homes and apartments or other users and combining electrical usage and other utility metering functions for utilities for multiple utility end users. The system thus integrates and communicates the results of utility usage, and eliminates the need for an individual electric metering device for each end user. The system serves as a single metering data collection point for multiple utilities and facilitates interactive communication technologies between the utility service delivery points and utility consumers or consumer devices. The system also includes a plurality of meter ports and a memory for storing meter data from each metered user. The UCI provides for injection of broadband signals onto the service conductors from multiple broadband sources.

The invention discloses a self-service room reservation method and system based on a mobile device. The method comprises the following steps that a room reservation terminal of the mobile device displays the positions of all hotels or guesthouses or apartments or rental house hosting centers having unoccupied rooms according to needs of a client in a map mode; after the client selects the needed hotel or the guesthouse or apartment or rental house hosting center on the map, selects a room and accommodation time and fills in client information, the room reservation terminal uploads the information to a room reservation server; the room reservation server extracts identity information and uploads the identity information to a public security system; the public security system verifies the identity information, judges whether the identity information is correct or not and feeds a verification result back to the room reservation server, and if the identity information is correct, the room reservation terminal reminds the client to carry out payment operation; if the identity information is incorrect, the client needs to submit the identity information again. According to the self-service room reservation method and system based on the mobile device, the client can reserve the room, rent the room and check in through self-service completely, reception services are avoided, the information is verified through the public security system, safety and high efficiency are achieved, and management is convenient.

Methods and systems for cleaning and providing barrier coatings to interior walls of piping systems. An entire piping system can be cleaned in one single pass by dry particulates forced by air and the piping system coated in one single pass. Pipes can be protected from water corrosion, erosion and electrolysis. Pipes having diameters of approximately ⅜″ up to approximately 6″ are treatable. Piping systems such as potable water lines, natural gas lines, HVAC, drains, and fire sprinkler systems in homes, apartments, high-rise hotel / resorts, office towers, high-rise apartment and condominiums and schools, can be treated. The coating forms an approximately 4 mils or greater covering inside the pipes. Buildings can return to service within approximately 24 to approximately 96 hours.

The invention discloses a management and operation platform applied to temporary accommodation management places such as hotels, serviced apartments, family hotels and short-term accommodations and an operation and management method running on the platform. By the utilization of the platform and the operation and management method, commercial tenants can realize fully automated management of the hotels without using high-cost computers, network or professional software, even unattended operation of the hotels can be achieved, and therefore hardware cost and management cost of the hotels are effectively reduced. Through the platform, clients can know the real-time states of the hotels by the utilization of the internet, a mobile communication network and the like, reservation, payment, check-in, service, check-out and the like of the hotels can be completed in a self-help mode, complicated procedures when the clients check in are avoided, and the privacy of the clients are protected effectively. The platform and the operation and management method can effectively meet the need of modern hotel management, improve the efficiency of the hotels, lower the cost of the hotels, and meet the requirements for simple and rapid check-in of modern persons.

The present invention is a device that assists with securing packages of varying sizes to the door or a home, apartment, or business. The device is capable of collapsing when not in use or while hanging on the user's door. Once a package is delivered and dropped into the secured apparatus, only the user will have access to the package by unlocking a pick-up door located on the device's bottom enclosure and retrieving the package from an interior bag. The user may additionally provide an enlarged bag to hang and secure to the outside of the device, if the package is expected to be too large to fit within the bottom enclosure of the apparatus.

A connection in wood frame construction such as in frame walls of homes, wood framed apartment buildings and light wood framed commercial buildings. Specifically, the disclosure describes a pair of connectors for joining wall studs to a base plate and to a top plate for framing a wall. The two connectors used in the connection are identical and include an edge member for connection to the edge faces of the stud and the base or top plates, and a face member for engaging the lower face of the base plate or the upper face of the top plate. The face member is joined to the edge member and projects at a right angle thereto. The face member serves the dual purposes of locating the connected at the ends of the studs and of resisting tension forces.

A modular system of construction of loft apartment buildings. This type of unit is in high demand in many metropolitan areas, and the modular nature of the inventive buildings allows them to be produced quickly and at low cost. In addition, the invention provides a novel system for interconnecting apartments quickly during construction, providing further cost savings. A mix of apartment types, including handicapped-accessible apartments, may be placed in each building, with the proportions of different apartment types being tailored to the needs of the local market and the constraints of local building codes. The apartment modules may be sized to permit convenient shipping of modules within the constraints of overland shipping regulations.

The invention discloses a train communication system and method based on AP (Assess Point) switching. The train communication system comprises a central layer, a trackside layer and a vehicle-mounted layer which are in wireless communication in sequence, wherein the central layer comprises a master wireless controller and an auxiliary wireless controller respectively connected with a server through a backbone network, the trackside layer comprises two or more APs linearly distributed beside a track, and the vehicle-mounted layer communicates with the APs through an STA (single thread apartment). As for the rain communication system and method based on AP switching, firstly, the architecture of a CBTC (communication based train control) system is improved firstly, the wireless controller is introduced on the central control layer of a train, the functional configuration of APs is simplified so that other functional configurations of the APs are transferred upwards and the functions are intensively realized in the wireless controllers; and secondly, a communication channel for the APs and the STA is designed, and the STA can work without searching an appropriate communication channel in the detection stage.

Particular aspects of the present invention provide novel systems and methods for method for epidemiological and environmental monitoring and assessment, and for active management of human health hazards associated with building environments. In particular aspects, the inventive system and methods are used as a human health and environmental health management tool for corporations (e.g., offices, factories), commercial buildings, condominiums, hotels, resorts, camps, military installations, schools, daycares, cruise ships, real estate developments, towns and cities, prisons, or any other institutional or community settings. In particular aspects, the inventive system and methods are used in a proactive manner to maintain the health of building occupants. Additional aspects provide systems and methods having substantial utility as an investigative tool to substantiate human health claims and correlate underlying environmental factors.

The present invention for a puppy apartment for use by domestic animals includes a container portion and a room divider having a kennel opening thereby allowing the animal to pass between apartment bedroom and bathroom portions. Adjustable apartment boundary regions for bathroom, bedroom, and living areas are adaptably configured to accommodate the pet in a comfortable domestic training environment. The present invention includes a method for providing positive and consistent household pet puppy training with the puppy apartment device.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a furniture simulation layout method and a furniture simulation layout system and belongs to the field of system simulation. The method comprises the following steps: capturing apartment layout drawings of buildings around the position of a terminal and modeling according to the apartment layout drawings to obtain indoor models of the apartment layouts; selecting a target furniture, calling scenes, corresponding to target positions, in the indoor models according to the target positions to which the target furniture is dragged, and displaying a model corresponding to the target furniture in the corresponding scenes in the indoor models; predicating supporting furniture matching with the target furniture according to the attribute of the target furniture, and issuing a model corresponding to the supporting furniture to recommend and display the model in corresponding scenes of the indoor models; and receiving a trigger signal and enabling the supporting furniture to be dragged and placed in the indoor models with the trigger signal. Intuitiveness is achieved by displaying effects with graphs, home furnishing spaces, furniture and the like are simulated and displayed through graphs, and a user can accurately judge whether a piece of furniture meets the selection requirement at a display terminal.

An Electronic / Communication system here forth interchangeably referred to as “ARMED” or “ARMED System” enabling households including single family residence owners or renters, condominium owners or renters and apartment renters as well as commercial, industrial offices and retail business operators to personally purchase from retail outlets, install and easily operate the system. When in operation, the ARMED System will inform the homeowner / renter or business owner / operator as well as local law enforcement including police department and fire department if and when there is intrusion, holdup or fire at the premises.

A method of inspecting a physical asset using a mobile computing device is disclosed. Data regarding the asset and its condition is collected on the mobile device by a user, and may include photographs, audio or video recordings, text or other types of data. The data is automatically annotated with the current time and the geo-location of the device. The data is transmitted to a server and saved in a manner such that it may not be modified. This allows for auditing, as well as tracking of the asset over time by comparing data entered at one time with data entered at another time. Reports may be automatically generated from the saved data when desired. Pre-defined fields for data entry may be presented for ease of use. In some embodiments, the asset being inspected is a building, house or apartment.

The invention discloses a browsing method for realizing palm apartment viewing according to 3D galleries and a 3D apartment viewing system. The browsing method includes the following steps: (A) a 3D gallery corresponding to an apartment, which includes 360-degree panoramic images of a plurality of spaces, is obtained and downloaded; (B) the turning state and moving state of a mobile terminal are detected, the panoramic image of one corresponding space is switched to be displayed according to a turning direction, and the currently displayed image is correspondingly changed according to a moving direction. The invention can display the 360-degree panoramic image of each space in the apartment, and a user can enter the different spaces to browse the general view of the apartment according to the turning directions of the mobile terminal, and can view the room layout at any angle by moving the mobile terminal. The palm apartment viewing operation method can be easily comprehended and mastered by users, so user acceptance is high. Meanwhile, 3D images can bring an immersive feeling to users, and can provide more apartment information than planar pictures, consequently, users can conveniently know true apartment rental information, and the experience of users is improved.

The invention provides a method for switching a user terminal between access joints in a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) based on AP (Access Point) collaboration. The switching method is mainly used for solving the problems in the prior art that the switching delay is overlong, and the switching mode is single. The method is technically characterized in that two selecting modes including a driving switching mode and a driven switching mode are adopted, wherein the driving switching mode is used for carrying out the switching from a network side; under a condition that a current AP is overloaded, the driving switch can be started for the AP, and an STA (Single Threaded Apartment) of the user terminal is selected from an STA set of the currently-connected user terminal and then is switched into an adjacent AP; if the communication quality of the STA of the user terminal is degraded, the driven switching mode can be automatically started through the STA of the user terminal, and the STA is switched into an optimal AP; and under the driving switching mode and the driven switching mode, channels to be scanned are subjected to priority ranking, and the time for scanning each channel is dynamically adjusted. The switching method has the advantages of less switching delay and high success rate in scanning and can be applied to distribution type wireless local networks with basic network support.

A method and apparatus for connecting and operating plurality of lockers in a multi apartment or multi office building connected via an interface to a video interphone system and via a local guardman or a virtual guardman over a network, for providing access to the building and opening a locker for a deliveryman to deliver packages, parcels and ordered goods. The tenants receiving a message through their video interphone monitor can retrieve the deliveries by opening the specific locker from their video interphone monitor, through the entry panel and through associated accessories.

A portable rolling carpentry workshop includes a table saw mounted on a sliding means to allow the blade of the saw to be shifted to the left or to the right of the longitudinal centerline of the workshop so that more supporting surface is available on either side of the blade to allow cutting large workpieces on a relatively narrow tabletop surface. The workshop of the invention is sized to allow easy maneuvering through the narrow hallways of apartment buildings but affords the functionality of larger worktables due to this unique ability to slide the table saw. Also provided is an extendable miter saw table located above the main tabletop surface and allowing passing of the longer workpieces underneath thereof when ripping with table saw. Therefore the use of both the table saw and the miter saw can be accomplished at the same time without the need to rearrange the configuration of the power tools on the workshop.

Methods and systems for providing cleaning and providing barrier coatings to interior wall surfaces of small diameter metal and composite piping systems in buildings. An entire piping system can be cleaned in one single pass by dry particulates forced by air throughout the building piping system by an external generator, and the entire piping system can be coated in one single pass by a machine also connected exterior to the piping system. Small diameter pipes can be protected by the effects of water corrosion, erosion and electrolysis, extending the life of small diameter piping systems such as copper, steel, lead, brass, cast iron piping and piping systems made of composite materials. The invention meets the National Sanitation Foundation standard for products and services that come into contact with potable water, and the American Water Works Association. Coatings can be applied to pipes having diameters of approximately ⅜″ up to approximately 6″ so that entire piping systems such as potable water lines, natural gas lines, HVAC piping systems, drain lines, and fire sprinkler systems in buildings such as single-family homes to smaller walk-up style apartments to multi-floor concrete high-rise hotel / resort facilities and office towers, as well as high-rise apartment and condominium buildings and schools, can be cleaned and coated to pipes within existing walls. The barrier coating forms an approximately 4 mils or greater covering to the inside of pipes. Entire buildings can return to service within approximately 24 to approximately 96 hours depending on the size of the building piping system.

The invention discloses a system for quickly recognizing functional regions in an apartment rendering, comprising image processing system module 100, image recognition and detection system module 200 and apartment rendering cloud service system module 300, wherein the image recognition and detection system module is connected with the image processing system module, and the apartment rendering cloud service system module is connected with the image recognition and detection system module. The system disclosed herein can recognize functional region image information in the apartment rendering reliably and quickly, the needs of people for searching for functional formation of the apartment rendering are met, people's work and living quality are improved, and the system is easy to widely apply and is of important production and practical significance.

The invention discloses an apartment lease method. The method includes the following steps that: a plurality of kinds of apartment source information of an apartment lease server is obtained; at least one kind of apartment source information is selected as target apartment source information; demand apartment characteristics in the target apartment source information are sent to the apartment lease server; at least one demand apartment according with the demand apartment characteristics is received; a request for checking the basic information of the demand apartments is sent to the apartment lease server; at least one apartment to be leased is selected, a lease transaction request is sent to the apartment lease server; lease transaction feedback information which is corresponding to the lease transaction request and is sent by the apartment lease server is received; and a lease apartment is determined according to the lease transaction feedback information, and the lease transaction of the lease apartment is completed. The invention also discloses an apartment lease system. The apartment lease method provided by the invention provides complete full-chain services from apartment lease to transaction.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a network remotely-controlled door lock integrated system. In the embodiment of the invention, a center server computes a time-base code according to reservation information of guest rooms and transmits the computed time-base code to terminal equipment a user; a coded door lock deciphers the inputted time-base code according to a preset deciphering algorithm if the coded door lock of a certain guest room receives a check-in instruction and the time-base code which are inputted by the user via an input device, so that check-in time, check-out time and coded door identification which are included in the time-base code are acquired; and the coded door lock of the guest room is unlocked if the identification of the coded door lock of the guest room is identical to the coded door lock identification obtained when the time-base code is deciphered, current time is later than or is equal to the check-in time acquired when the time-base code is deciphered or is earlier than or is equal to the check-out time acquired when the time-base code is deciphered. Based on the mechanism, the user can directly check in the guest room by the aid of the time-base code obtained when the guest room is reserved, and the network remotely-controlled door lock integrated system is beneficial for improving operational convenience and efficiency for check-in of guest rooms in the industry providing accommodation, such as hotels and service apartments. .

Broadband connections of end users to the Internet are becoming more and more common today, and the most common types of these fast connections are ADSL and Cable modems. These connections are typically still very slow compared to the speeds that are expected in the next few years and typically also highly asymmetric and allow typically 750-2000 Kbit per second (most typically 1500 Kbit) for the downlink and typically for example 96 Kbit or 128 Kbit per second for the uplink (although standard ADSL can in principle support up to 8 Mbit per second download speed and up to 800 Kbit per second upload speed), based on the assumption that most users download much more data than they upload. However, for many users these limitations are highly undesirable, and these are for example home users or small businesses or organizations who want to use the connection also for example for VOIP (voice over IP) communications and / or Video-over IP communications and / or conferences and / or for example running web servers and / or for example various p2p applications, and in fact the low uplink also many times slows down the downlink due to the overhead needed for dealing with relatively small packets, so that any additional uplink by the user can severely limit the real downlink that can be achieved below the downlink bandwidth which the user is paying for. Actually ADSL is beginning to be replaced in some places by VDSL where the distance to the nearest street switchboard is about 1.2 Kilometers or less, which in principle allows up to 52 Mbit per second Download speed and up to 16 Mbit per Second Upload speed. However, these modems are expensive and are only slowly entering the market and only in a few countries. On the other hand there is no need to upgrade typical cable modems for enabling faster speeds, such as for example 20 Mbit downlink and 2 Mbit uplink, as is offered for example in France, when the ISPs start offering such speeds—since the typical common cable modem is already capable of such speeds. The present invention enables an improved Ethernet-over-coax solution which enables using one or a few very high speed modems, each for multiple users or apartments, preferably in combination with very cheap and very fast home networks (offering preferably at least up to 100 Mbit per second for each computer, preferably at full duplex), preferably based on the Cable TV coax cables, so that multiple computers can share the same internet connection for example in the same apartment and / or communicate between themselves. This preferably includes using a different frequency for the Ethernet-over coax channel for each computer in the apartment. Also shown are for example improved home networks using the second set of normally unused 2 phone wires and for example some improvement in HPNA networks, such as for example using HPNA also to connect between the street switchboard and the home or office instead of having to use also for example an ADSL or VDSL modem.