574 results about "Building environment" patented technology

A system for gathering date in a space includes a data server, a first wireless module operably connected to the data server, a first plurality of wireless sensor modules, and at least one other wireless sensor module. The first plurality of wireless sensors module are operable to generate sensor data relating to the control and operation of an HVAC system. The first plurality of wireless sensor modules are also operable to communicate the first sensor data to the first wireless module. The at least one other wireless sensor module is operable to generate second sensor data relating to at least one of the group consisting of light fixtures, architectural fixtures and plumbing fixtures, office equipment, and vending machines and furniture. The at least one other wireless sensor module is also operable to communicate the second sensor data to the first wireless module.

A system for supervised automatic code generation and tuning for natural language interaction applications, comprising a build environment comprising a developer user interface, automated coding tools, automated testing tools, and automated optimization tools, and an analytics framework software module. Text samples are imported into the build environment and automated clustering is performed to assign them to a plurality of input groups, each input group comprising a plurality of semantically related inputs. Language recognition rules are generated by automated coding tools. Automated testing tools carry out automated testing of language recognition rules and generate recommendations for tuning language recognition rules. The analytics framework performs analysis of interaction log files to identify problems in a candidate natural language interaction application. Optimizations to the candidate natural language interaction application are carried out and an optimized natural language interaction application is deployed into production and stored in the solution data repository.

A system for supervised automatic code generation and tuning for natural language interaction applications, comprising a build environment comprising a developer user interface, automated coding tools, automated testing tools, and automated optimization tools, and an analytics framework software module. Text samples are imported into the build environment and automated clustering is performed to assign them to a plurality of input groups, each input group comprising a plurality of semantically related inputs. Language recognition rules are generated by automated coding tools. Automated testing tools carry out automated testing of language recognition rules and generate recommendations for tuning language recognition rules. The analytics framework performs analysis of interaction log files to identify problems in a candidate natural language interaction application. Optimizations to the candidate natural language interaction application are carried out and an optimized natural language interaction application is deployed into production and stored in the solution data repository.

A system for supervised automatic code generation and tuning for natural language interaction applications, comprising a build environment comprising a developer user interface, automated coding tools, automated testing tools, and automated optimization tools, and an analytics framework software module. Text samples are imported into the build environment and automated clustering is performed to assign them to a plurality of input groups, each input group comprising a plurality of semantically related inputs. Language recognition rules are generated by automated coding tools. Automated testing tools carry out automated testing of language recognition rules and generate recommendations for tuning language recognition rules. The analytics framework performs analysis of interaction log files to identify problems in a candidate natural language interaction application. Optimizations to the candidate natural language interaction application are carried out and an optimized natural language interaction application is deployed into production and stored in the solution data repository.

A method for improving system performance in a building environment according to the invention includes installing a temperature monitoring system for a refrigeration system, and performing a temperature audit on the refrigeration system. Temperature and pressure sensors are calibrated, and operating parameters of the refrigeration system are obtained. Pressure drop and efficiency tests are performed on at least one component of the refrigeration system, and operating pressures of at least one component are adjusted. System stability is tracked. In one embodiment, the building environment further includes an HVAC system and the method includes adjusting the HVAC system according to desired presets. In another embodiment, the building environment includes a lighting system and the method includes adjusting internal lighting levels of the lighting system to desired set points.

A method for deploying source code from a version control system to at least one of a web server and an application server is provided. The method uses a build environment configured to be coupled to a client utility and a version control repository. The method includes scheduling a build request using a build scheduler, prompting a deployer to invoke the client utility including designating a specific time for execution, extracting source code at the scheduled time from the version control repository using the build environment, verifying promotion groups, building compiled modules to form an application, and deploying the application to at least one of a web server and an application server.

A monitoring system has integrated exit signs, which preferably have electroluminescent elements. The signs connect to internal wiring of a building, but local power sources can provide emergency power if building power is lost. Controllers on the signs communicate with a central workstation using building wiring and / or wireless communication. The controllers have one or more automated features for monitoring operation of the exit signs and the surrounding environment. These automated components, including an intensity sensor, an ambient light sensor, a temperature sensor, a smoke detector, a camera, a speaker, a microphone, a motion detector, an RFID detector, and the like. Because the signs are widely distributed throughout the building, operators can get detailed information of the building environment, security, fire, smoke, temperature, etc. The exit signs can store this information locally and can communicate useful information using a communication link to the central workstation.

The invention discloses a solar-air-geothermal multisource dual-machine heat pump heat supply and air conditioning composite system, relates to a heat supply, air conditioning and refrigerating composite system which takes solar energy, air and a ground source heat pump of a buried tube as cold and heat sources, and belongs to the technical field of building environment, equipment engineering and refrigeration engineering. The system comprises a solar thermal collector (1), the buried tube (3), a heat storage water tank (13), a heat storage / exchanger water tank (17), a control system, an end user (16) and the like. The invention provides a multisource dual-compressor heat pump system which takes the solar energy, geothermal energy and air as the cold and heat sources; and the system can supply heat in winter, refrigerate in summer and supply hot water for daily life all year round. Moreover, the overheat of the solar thermal collector in summer is avoided, so that the heat of the solar energy is stored in soil for use in the winter; and the system particularly has higher applicability in the area in which heat load in the winter is greater than cold load in summer.

Certain embodiments relate to systems and methods for monitoring and improving the efficiency by which systems maintain building environments. A building management system may analyze values observed by sensors and other devices and determine whether the observed values fall within a range. If the observed values do not fall within the range and the building's control system has not taken appropriate action to ensure that the observed values do fall within the range, the building may generate a floor plan specifying where the failure occurred. A building ranking system may rank a plurality of buildings based upon their relative efficiency. The building ranking system may determine each building's efficiency based on a set of parameters related to the building's energy usage that are normalized for weather, occupancy, and other external parameters.

The invention provides a security monitoring alarm system based on the geographical position and a method therefor. The system comprises a positioning navigation network, a communication network and a smart phone into which a sensor, a security terminal program and an automatic alarm module are built. The method comprises the following steps: predefining the hazardous condition, as well as the traveling path, time and / or destination of users in the monitoring area, in the security terminal program; starting up the security terminal program and entering the monitoring area; monitoring the user state and evaluating the security state of the users through the security terminal program; starting up the automatic alarm module if the user state is dangerous according to evaluation; and closing the security terminal program if no hazards exists. The system and the method which are provided by the invention are free from influence of building environments, monitoring range and the like; the operation is simple, convenient and fast; and whether the users have possible accidents or not can be accurately and quickly judged, and the alarm joint defense mechanism can be started in time to protect the personable and property security of the users.

The invention relates to a system for simulating operation of a central air-conditioning. The system comprises a data collecting module for collecting building environment data required by simulating the operation of the air-conditioning; a simulation parameter selecting module, connected with the data collecting module, and used for selecting a parameter for simulation and a simulation mathematical model according to a simulated building object, and sending the data collected by the data collecting module and the selected parameter for simulation and the simulation mathematical model to the system simulation module; and a system simulation module, connected with the simulation parameter selecting module and used for carrying out simulation calculation by applying the selected simulation parameter and the simulation mathematical model according to the collected data. The system for simulating the operation of the central air conditioner can simulate the operation condition of the central air-conditioning system and provide reference data for the system to save energy.

Various embodiments employ technology solutions to enable isolated client device interaction with building automation and control (BAC) networks, for example including configuration of a third-party application access framework which enables access to physical devices in a built environment. For example, a data exchange gateway interfaces a system with a BAC (Building Automation and Control) network, wherein the BAC network provides via the gateway, on a periodic basis, data values presented by each of a plurality of physical devices on the BAC network. A data exchange module receives periodic data values and causes recording of those values in a BAC database isolated from the BAC network. A permissions rules module control access to data in the BAC database. An API request handling module handles requests from third-party software platforms via an API.

An iterative software development environment is provided to perform modified dependency analyses for use in building a target file and all the files on which it depends from one or more source files using a set of prioritized build rules. In one embodiment, the build rules indicate how different types of target files can be generated from different source file types. A given target file type may be associated with several rules, each having a different priority, for building the target from different source file types. In one embodiment, if more than one source file exists that can be used to generate a given target file, the rule with the highest priority is used. In one embodiment, the build environment identifies how to generate a particular target file by identifying the highest priority rule for which an associated source file type exists. Moreover, the development environment identifies the presence of a new source file having a corresponding build rule with a higher priority than that of the source file type(s) previously used in the generation of the target file. In one embodiment of the invention, the target file is rebuilt if such a new source file is identified, or if one or more source files previously used to build the target file are determined to have been modified more recently than that indicated by the build date / time of the target file itself.

A computer-implemented method of tracking a target object in an object recognition system includes acquiring a plurality of images with a camera. The method further includes simultaneously tracking the target object and dynamically building environment map data from the plurality of images. The tracking of the target object includes attempting to estimate a target pose of the target object with respect to the camera based on at least one of the plurality of images and based on target map data. Next, the method determines whether the tracking of the target object with respect to the camera is successful. If not, then the method includes inferring the target pose with respect to the camera based on the dynamically built environment map data. In one aspect the method includes fusing the inferred target pose with the actual target pose even if tracking is successful to improve robustness.

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 invention discloses an operation method of a self-positioning robot-based multi-camera parameter automatic calibration system. A self-positioning robot carrying a marker cruises and carries out self-positioning in an offline built environment map to obtain a world coordinate, and a main control computer acquires a camera image and processes the image to obtain an image coordinate of the marker; and the main control computer can automatically carry out the parameter calibration of cameras by combining the dot pair data of more than eight world coordinates and corresponding image coordinates. The operation method provided by the invention has the greatest characteristics of automatically carrying out the parameter calibration on multiple distributed and fixed cameras, greatly reducing labor calibration cost and improving the standardization and accuracy of a calibration process. The upgrading can be realized very conveniently based on the existing monitoring system, and an advanced intelligent algorithm applied to a monitoring and visual system is based on the results of camera calibration, therefore, the operation method provided by the invention has a very broad application and popularization prospect in monitoring systems in the future road traffic, office building corridors, factories, public security and the like.

The invention belongs to the technical field of building cooling load control, relates to a method for predicting an office building cooling load, and through building an office building outdoor cooling load model, an office building indoor cooling load model and an office building fresh air load hourly variation model, an office building cooling load model is obtained. Based on the an energy conservation law and a thermal balance relation in building environment, from the point of view of variation of the number of people in an office building and personnel energy utilization modes, the interference amount of a cooling load in the office building is predicted and analyzed; and meteorological website data are utilized to predict a cooling load outside the office building and an office building fresh air load. The method for predicting the office building cooling load establishes an air conditioner enclosing structure, a solar radiation cooling load hourly variation model, and hourly variation models of personnel, equipment, illumination cooling loads and personnel indoor rate in air conditioning environment, and finally obtains a cooling load prediction model of the office building.

Distributing software image creation and configuration among a plurality of client computers. Server computers define jobs related to software image creation. Each of the client computers communicates with the servers to identify, accept, and complete jobs. The server and client computers maintain data structures indicating job availability and status. In the distributed build environment, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system builders may easily modify, create, and image software in the factory to dramatically reduce resource consumption and time.

Transportable steel module units and methods for assembling such units to form structures on site to create living and workspace building environments which are non-combustible and resistant to unhealthy contaminants, and high winds and other environmental conditions and wherein each module unit is substantially completely prefabricated and finished to permit immediate occupancy and predetermined use of a structure created by connection of two or more module units.

The invention discloses a positioning method based on environment line features. The method comprises the following steps: 1) a global coordinate system is set; 2) an environment feature map is built; 3) a robot starts to continuously scan environment information from a starting point; 4) filter processing is carried out on scanning data points; 5) the data points after scanning are divided into different types; 6) IEP algorithm is adopted to carry out line feature recognition on each type; 7) a line is drawn from the data point collection of the line features, and feature parameters are calculated; 8) the line features are converted under the global coordinate system from under a laser coordinate system, and laser scanning data are used for correcting dead-reackoning errors of inertial navigation; 9) the obtained line features are added to the environment feature map; 10) the above steps are repeated, and the environment feature map is obtained; and 11) the robot starts to move from the starting point, and the environment features scanned continuously and the built environment feature map are matched for realizing self positioning.

The invention discloses a system and a method for sensing emotion of juvenile environmental psychology based on electroencephalogram, and a method for selecting simulation samples. The system comprises an electroencephalogram signal acquisition module, an electroencephalogram signal preprocessing module, an electroencephalogram signal feature extraction module, an emotion sensing module and the like; and a built environment serves as a visual simulation source, wherein juveniles often contact with, participate in or are crazy about the built environment. The emotion sensing method comprises the steps of selecting the visual simulation source, acquiring the electroencephalogram signal, preprocessing the electroencephalogram signal, extracting electroencephalogram signal features, training a model, determining emotion intensity and the like. According to the method for selecting the simulation samples, arousal dimensionality and valence dimensionality are divided according to 5 emotion intensities, and rectangular select boxes are determined non-equidistantly according to the actual selected condition of the samples and the distribution state of the samples in a two-dimensional space. The emotion sensing system, the emotion sensing method and the method for selecting the simulation samples have the advantages of high emotion sensing ability, object extending ability and the like, and have high application values in environmental psychology research.

The invention discloses a method for identifying and predicting a bus passenger flow influence factor based on geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR). The method comprises steps of: extracting a traffic zone hour bus passenger flow and calculating built environment density; 2, constructing a space-time three-dimensional coordinate system according to the time of a passenger flow observation point and latitude and longitude to calculate space-time distance, and reckoning a spatial regression weight matrix according to a Gaussian function and the distance; 3, calculating a relation between a passenger flow volume and land utilization under different space-time conditions based on the GTWR; and 4, obtaining a change of a relevant parameter to a coefficient according to the calculation to perform visualization processing in time and space, and analyzing an inherent law. The method takes account of the influence of a time factor on the bus passenger flow and the built environment relation, can deeply excavate an internal relation between the passenger flow and the land utilization, accurately predicts the bus passenger flow, and provides the scientific theoretical guidance for the bus line planning and operation management.

The systems and methods of this disclosure control the flow rate of conditioned fluid at thermal distribution devices and at a conditioned fluid source that supplies conditioned fluid to the thermal distribution devices. The systems include multiple thermal distribution devices disposed throughout multiple rooms of a building, a fluid flow control device in fluid communication with each of the thermal distribution devices, multiple sensors disposed on each of the thermal distribution devices, a room temperature sensor disposed in each of the rooms, a first controller coupled to each of the fluid flow control devices, and a second controller coupled to a source of conditioned fluid. The first controllers control respective fluid flow control devices based on the measurement data obtained from the sensors and the room temperature sensors and a second controller controls the conditioned fluid source based on the demand for conditioned fluid by the thermal distribution devices.

It is possible within a bounded system, through manipulation of the built environment using novel combinations of technology, overall system design, and process cycle management, to moderate increases in system entropy for both energy and matter with a structurally coupled external environment.One example embodiment forms an engineered ecosystem, moderating eight primary systems—thermal management, atmospheric optimization, radiation controls, hydrological systems, energy systems, material flows, systems management, and built systems—to provide homeostatic regulation of cascading flows of matter and energy. Ideally the system's symbiotic processes work through reciprocity and devolved autonomy to form the unity of the system that balances resource use, reduces transport requirements, shortens cycles of water, minerals, and residual flows, and offers storage of surplus and reserves.This system enables a stable passive design where in consideration of bounded inputs and outputs, the outputs never exceed inputs.

This invention is an integrated system comprised of a flat plate, air-to-air heat exchanger, ducting and controls, and an AZFlow™ direct evaporative cooler in configurations where the system is able to provide air that has been cooled well below the ambient wet-bulb to temperatures approaching the dew point. These include: A) a two stage cooler where one evaporative cooler performs the stage one cooling by direct evaporative cooling, of the ambient air. This air is directed to the secondary side of the air to air heat exchanger where it indirectly and sensibly cools primary air which is then cooled by a second evaporative cooler which is able to produce the desired cool air approaching the dew point; B) an energy recovery cooling system where building exhaust is collected and directed to the secondary side of the air to air heat exchanger where it indirectly and sensibly cools primary air which is then cooled by an evaporative cooler which is able to produce the desired cool air approaching the dew point; C) an indirect evaporative cooler where an evaporative cooler performs direct evaporative cooling of the ambient air. This air is directed to the secondary side of the air to air heat exchanger where it indirectly and sensibly cools primary air. This sensibly cooled primary air can be used as input to a broad number of applications including but not limited to: inlet air to cooling towers producing water chilled to temperatures approaching the dew point which itself has a broad range of uses, and building makeup air in areas other than the most humid where cooling the air below ambient conditions reduces the energy required to maintain the building environment.