208 results about "Outage detection" patented technology

A system for managing loads and detecting outages over electric power lines that comprises wireless temperature sensors which are attached to bare conductors of the electric power line(s), at line junctions or lines' splitting points, for sensing temperatures generated by the currents flow in the conductors. The system also includes a Current Measurement Units (CMU) for wirelessly reading the temperature sensed by the sensors, to allow cheap, rapid and easy RMS currents measurements on power lines at any voltage levels, by using temperature into current conversion formulas and tables.

In a wireless communication system, local detection of an interrupt indicator during a voice communication between a user of a subscriber unit and another person is provided. Responsive to the interrupt indicator, a portion of a speech recognition element is activated to begin processing voice-based commands. The speech recognition element can be implemented at least in part within an infrastructure, such as in a client-server speech recognition arrangement. The interrupt indicator may be provided using an input device forming a part of the subscriber unit, or through the use of a local speech recognizer within the subscriber unit. By locally detecting interrupt indicators at the subscriber unit, the present invention more readily enables the use of electronic assistants and similar services in wireless communication environments.

Systems and methods for detecting presence and movement of intruders. Various embodiments of an intruder detection system can be based on, for example, a beam-interrupt detector or a thermal imaging device. The beam-interrupt detection based system can provide functionalities such as counting of intruders crossing a given beam. A plurality of such beams at different heights can also allow distinguishing different-sized intruders. The thermal imaging based detection system can provide functionalities such as tracking movement of intruders. A recording can be triggered by detection of intruder movement, thereby improving the efficiency of recording and reviewing information indicative of presence and movement of intruders in a monitored area. In one embodiment, non-intruders can be distinguished from intruders by querying an RFID tag carried by non-intruders. In one embodiment, non-intruders can be distinguished from intruders by facial recognition.

The invention provides an SRAM type FPGA single particle irradiation test system and method. The test system comprises a host computer, a current monitoring acquisition plate and a test plate. The current monitoring acquisition plate comprises a current monitoring acquisition FPGA, a current acquisition unit, a power supply module and a first communication interface; the test plate comprises a control processing FPGA, a refreshing chip, an SRAM, a configuration PROM, a storage PROM, a second communication interface and a detected FPGA; the host computer is in charge of flow control and data processing; the current monitoring acquisition plate is in charge of power-on and power-off of the test plate and monitoring and testing of FPGA currents; and the test plate is in charge of processing a command sent by the host computer and performing work such as single particle overturning, single particle function interruption detection and the like. According to the invention, the refreshing chip is utilized to replace some of the reconfiguration modules in a conventional irradiation test system so that a detected chip can be more conveniently and reliably refreshed; and the system and method provided by the invention can realize static and dynamic overturning testing on a trigger, and more reliable trigger overturning data can be obtained by combing the two methods.

Systems and methods for detecting presence and movement of pests. Various embodiments of a pest detection system can be based on, for example, a beam-interrupt detector or a thermal imaging device. The beam-interrupt detection based system can provide functionalities such as counting of pests crossing a given beam. A plurality of such beams at different heights can also allow distinguishing different sized pests. The thermal imaging based detection system can provide functionalities such as tracking movement of pests. A recording can be triggered by detection of pest movement, thereby improving the efficiency of recording and reviewing information indicative of presence and movement of pests in a monitored area. Movement of pests can be monitored on a passive basis, or by providing a stimulus that induces movement.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for systems and methods that provide for a power outage lighting management within an environment, comprising a power outage detection device adapted to detect a power outage condition and to wirelessly transmit power outage indication data to a plurality of lighting systems within the environment, where at least one of the plurality of lighting systems include an LED light source that is powered by an internal power source.

In order to detect a defective light source, such as a LED coupled to a DC-DC converter circuit for receiving a power signal, an outage detection circuit comprises a top voltage detector coupled to the LED for detecting a voltage across the LED. The top voltage detector has an top voltage terminal for supplying a top voltage signal. The detection circuit further comprises a differential amplifier coupled to the top voltage terminal for receiving the top voltage signal as a first input signal and coupled to a reference voltage terminal. The reference voltage terminal is configured to supply a reference voltage as a second input signal. The differential amplifier comprises an output terminal for supplying an outage detection signal.

Techniques for accurate determination of service impact are provided by provisioning network deployed probes with actual business object information related to business entities, such as VPN sites. Such probes are capable of sending a network trap (or alarm) containing actual business information in response to detecting a loss of connectivity. As a result, service impact caused by the loss of connectivity may be determined accurately by simply parsing the contents of a network trap, thus avoiding the complication and inaccuracy of conventional impact analysis.

A system for detecting and neutralizing a target aerial vehicle comprises a counter-attack unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising a flight body and a flight control system supported about the flight body operable to facilitate flight of the UAV, and an aerial vehicle countermeasure supported by the flight body. The system can comprise an aerial vehicle detection system comprising at least one detection sensor operable to detect a target aerial vehicle while in-flight, and operable to provide command data to the counter-attack UAV to facilitate interception of the target aerial vehicle by the counter-attack UAV. Upon interception of the target aerial vehicle, the counter-attack UAV is operable to disrupt operation of the detected target aerial vehicle with the aerial vehicle capture countermeasure, thereby neutralizing the target aerial vehicle. The counter-attack UAV and systems may be autonomously operated. Associated systems and methods are provided.

The present invention provides a detection method in which a CDMA-coded data signal is transmitted in the form of a data stream of spread data bursts between a transmitter and a receiver, hierarchical CDMA codes being used for the transmission. In a first step, codes having a smaller spreading factor than a maximally to be detected spreading factor (SF) are detected. In a second step, codes having a larger spreading factor than in the previous step are detected, the detection results of the first step being taken into account. In a third step, the detection process is broken off if all codes are detected, or otherwise the second step is repeated with the detection results last obtained in each instance, until all codes are detected.

The invention relates to a 3D printer capable of printing continuously at an outage and a method for controlling the 3D printer to continue printing at the outage and belongs to the technical field of 3D printing. The 3D printer comprises a power module capable of storing electric energy, an outage detection module used for detecting the power supply state of an external power source, and a control module which controls all components of the printer to switch between the power supply state and the outage state. By means of the method, the printer can use the stored electric energy to record the work state at the outage, and all the components are set to be in the outage state; when power supply is recovered, the printer can be controlled to return to the previous state and continue last work; as a result, reprinting is avoided, consumable items are effectively saved, and the success rate of printing is increased substantially; furthermore, closed-loop control is achieved in cooperation with a displacement detection module, and the accuracy of continuous printing at the outage is further improved. Moreover, the 3D printer capable of printing continuously at the outage is simple in structure, the method for controlling the 3D printer to continue printing at the outage is easy and convenient to implement, and the application range is rather wide.

An AC power interruption detection system is provided which compares an AC signal with a phased AC reference signal to determine the presence or absence of an AC power signal. By comparing the AC power signal with a phased reference signal, power interruption detection occurs within a predetermined minimum time frame, for example, with ½ cycle. In exemplary embodiments, the detection system includes AC power signal frequency multiplying circuitry to improve speed and performance. In other exemplary embodiments, the detection system includes threshold detection circuitry to detect undervoltage (e.g., brownout) and / or overvoltage (e.g., spike) conditions of the AC power. In system-level embodiments, the interruption detection system is implemented in a switch array environment in which a switch controller controls a redundant switch array based on the detection signal generated by the power interruption detection system to couple a selected AC power line, from one or more redundant AC power lines available, to a load.

This invention relates to Ethernet cut-over net virtual LAN cut-over technology including port and 802.1 Q protocol to realize VLAN automatic joining and flexible switch via VLAN ID in virtual LAN tag. This invented method is to set up adaptive VLAN submodule in the equipment soft exchange protocol and function module in which the adaptive VLANN submodule can be distributed into following tasks: interrupting detection task, main process task, ageing process task. Since VLAN ID in tag is applied for automatic joining, cancel ageing, switch in the Ethernet exchange equipment, this method reduces network management manual arrangement need in ordinary VLAN.

Hardware and software techniques for interrupt detection and response in a scalable pipelined array processor environment are described. Utilizing these techniques, a sequential program execution model with interrupts can be maintained in a highly parallel scalable pipelined array processing containing multiple processing elements (PEs) and distributed memories and register files. When an interrupt occurs, interface signals are provided to all PEs to support independent interrupt operations in each PE dependent upon the local PE instruction sequence prior to the interrupt. Processing / element exception interrupts are supported and low latency interrupt processing is also provided for embedded systems where real time signal processing is required. Further, a hierarchical interrupt structure is used allowing a generalized debug approach using debug interrupts and a dynamic debuts monitor mechanism.

Packet communication apparatus connects plural LANs to each other, in termination of a WAN that conducts data communication using handshake communication protocol. Apparatus buffers data packets between the LANs, and transfers, as a proxy, response packets and data packets to a terminal device. The apparatus stops transmission of data packets belonging to an arbitrary packet flow when the reception of the response packets belonging to the packet flow from the WAN is ceased for a network outage detection time or more set, while transmitting data packets belonging to the arbitrary packet flow. The apparatus retransmits a first data packet whose corresponding response packet is not received, belonging to the packet flow immediately after the data packet transmission stops, and retransmits all data packets whose corresponding response packets are not received, belonging to the packet flow, when receiving the response packets from the WAN.

The invention relates to a cell outage detection and compensation method and a cell outage detection and compensation device. The cell outage detection and compensation method includes the following steps: the operating status information of a plurality of operators in cells under a base station is monitored by the base station; according to the monitored operating status information, the disabled cells among the cells under the base station and the disabled operators in the cells are determined; and aimed at the disabled operators, outage compensation is carried out on the disabled cells.

Systems and methods for detecting presence and movement of intruders. Various embodiments of an intruder detection system can be based on, for example, a beam-interrupt detector or a thermal imaging device. The beam-interrupt detection based system can provide functionalities such as counting of intruders crossing a given beam. A plurality of such beams at different heights can also allow distinguishing different-sized intruders. The thermal imaging based detection system can provide functionalities such as tracking movement of intruders. A recording can be triggered by detection of intruder movement, thereby improving the efficiency of recording and reviewing information indicative of presence and movement of intruders in a monitored area. In one embodiment, non-intruders can be distinguished from intruders by querying an RFID tag carried by non-intruders. In one embodiment, non-intruders can be distinguished from intruders by facial recognition.

The invention relates to a vehicle-mounted earthquake emergency handling device for a high-speed railway. The vehicle-mounted earthquake emergency handling device for the high-speed railway comprises a GSM-R communication unit, a catenary outage detection unit and a control unit, wherein the GSM-R communication unit is used for receiving earthquake alarm information, and sending the earthquake alarm information to the control unit, the catenary outage detection unit is used for detecting whether a catenary is in the outage state or not, and sending the detection result to the control unit, and the control unit is connected with an emergency braking loop installed on a train braking system in a hardwired mode, and is used for controlling the emergency braking loop to carry out emergency braking when necessary according to the information sent by the GSM-R communication unit and the catenary outage detection unit. According to the vehicle-mounted earthquake emergency handling device for the high-speed railway, early-warning information sent by an earthquake early-warning system is received through a GSM-R wireless communication system, the power supply state of the catenary is detected in real time in an online mode, the corresponding train control mode is adopted according to the received early-warning information and the catenary outage state, and thus reliability and timeliness of earthquake emergency handling are effectively improved.

Techniques and apparatus that allow for accurate determination of network topology utilizing multicast groups are provided. A multicast group may be established that contains a set of VPN endpoints to be monitored. By sending ping packets from each provider edge endpoint to the multicast group, ping responses (with unicast addresses for responders) may be collected and analyzed to determine reachability of the endpoints.

Disclosed are embodiments for an intermediary signal conditioning device with an input adaptable detection mode. In one embodiment, an intermediary signal conditioning device has a control module, an input module, and an output module. The input module and the control module are for receiving an input signal. The control module is configured to interrupt the output module within a duration of time to allow at least a minimum pulse length of the input signal to be output as an output signal from the output module. The intermediary signal conditioning device is configured to condition the input signal for retransmission as the output signal.

The invention relates to a wireless telecommunication system including a transmitter and a receiver, said transmitter being used to transmit data packets to the receiver, said receiver including error detection means (220) in order to detect if a received packet contains errors, and further comprising means of outage detection (225) in order to determine, in the event an error packet is detected, if the transmission channel between the transmitter and the receiver is in an outage situation and in order to transmit a first (OUTAGE) signal indicating this situation, the transmitter being used to modify the conditions of transmission in response to said first signal.

In a commercial-break detection device (7) for the detection of commercial-break information (WBI) present in picture information (RI) of a television signal (FS), having detection means (8) arranged to receive the television signal (FS) and adapted to detect black-frame information (SBI) in the picture information (BI) of the television signal (FS), and having memory means (9) for the storage of black-frame lime information (SZI) for each one of at least two units of detected black-frame information (SBI), and having analysis means (10) for analyzing the stored black-frame time information (SZI) and for determining commercial-break position information (WP1, WP2) identifying the commercial-break information (WBI) in the picture information (BI), the detection means (8) are now adapted to detect a fade-out (FO), in which fade-out (FO) a luminance signal (Y) of the picture information (BI) decreases during a fade-out time (FT) until the picture information (BI) is formed by the black-frame information (SBI), and the detection means (8) are adapted to determine fade black-frame time information (FI) and edge black-frame time information (KI), the fade black-frame time information (FI) identifying black-frame information (SBI) which is directly preceded by a fade-out (FO), and the edge black-frame time information (KI) identifying black-frame information (SBI) which is not directly preceded by a fade-out (FO), and the analysis means (10) are adapted to separately analyze the stored fade black-frame time information (FI) and the stored edge black-frame time information (KI), in order to determine the commercial-break position information (WP1, WP2).

A handsfree device in communication with a remote communication device by one of wireless communication and wired communication for establishing a handsfree call includes a call interruption detection unit for detecting a call interruption by a second call while the remote communication device is involved in a first call and a response command transfer unit for transferring a response command to the remote communication device in response to the call interruption when the call interruption is detected by the call interruption detection unit.

To provide a debugging system, debugging method, and a semiconductor integrated circuit device capable of collecting debug-target information with accuracy and improving debug efficiency. A semiconductor integrated circuit device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: subsystems; a break detecting unit detecting that a program execution of a CPU core in one subsystem satisfies a predetermined break condition; and a break selecting unit stopping operations of one selected from the subsystems in accordance with the detection result of the break detecting unit.

A “super-fast” polling method for electrical meters for outage detection. In response to a query, a large group of electric meters (M) all simultaneously transmit reply signals over an electrical distribution network using TWACS®. The signals are separated by an inbound detector (IB) at a receiving end of the network. This allows a very large number of meters to be polled in a very short period of time to determine whether or not an outage has occurred at the location of each meter. Each meter transmits a bit pattern, and bit patterns are designed so a group of meter units can transmit their patterns simultaneously over a power line (L) to the inbound detector. The presence or absence of a bit pattern in the received signal conveys the presence or absence of the associated meter in the system. The ability to transmit multiple bit patterns in parallel requires that they be orthogonal to each other. The Hadamard matrices are a class of matrices whose rows could be used as a set of bit patterns. In addition to super-fast polling for outage detection, the method of the invention can also be used to poll meters for the presence of an alarm condition, as well as for both outage detection and an alarm condition.

A leakage-current detection and interruption apparatus includes a plug adapted to receive an alternating current voltage, pairs of separable contacts adapted to receive the AC voltage from the plug, and an operating mechanism adapted to open and close the contacts. A power cord includes line and neutral power conductors adapted to conduct the AC voltage from the contacts to the load, a ground conductor, and two non-load carrying, non-ground conductors. One or both of the conductors do not shield one or both of the power conductors. A detection circuit is adapted to detect cord faults. The detection circuit includes a ground fault detection circuit having a current transformer with an opening through which the power conductors pass. The ground fault detection circuit cooperates with the non-load carrying, non-ground conductors to detect one or more of the cord faults and with the operating mechanism to interrupt the detected faults.

Method and system for providing network connectivity outage detection for MPLS cores based on service level agreement (SLA) parameters including receiving a service level agreement parameter, determining a probe interval associated with the service level agreement parameter, and performing network connectivity outage detection based on the service level agreement parameter, is disclosed.