1696 results about "Control measure" patented technology

The methods and systems disclosed herein include a gaming platform that may support massively-multiplayer online computer games, with elements of social networking, in which players may use mobile devices in order to verify their location and claim a measure of control over the location. Players may function like game pieces in association with other members on a team and participate in competitions to capture and defend real-world territory as part of the gaming experience. The gaming platform and associated entities may share revenue and other incentives with entities associated with the locations controlled by the players on the game platform.

Systems and methods for automated vendor risk analysis are described. In one described method for automated vendor risk analysis, an analyzer receives payment transaction data associated with a vendor, compares the payment transaction data to a plurality of vendor fraud control measures, identifies the vendor or transaction associated with the payment transaction data as potentially fraudulent, and generates a notification regarding the potentially fraudulent vendor or transaction.

The invention belongs to the field of automation of power grid management and provides a virtual reality display system used for monitoring running of the power grid. On the basis of the middleware technology of the enterprise service bus (ESB) and a hardware topological structure of the distributed network, running parameters of the power grid are acquired, stored and displayed integrally organically, and virtual scenes of running of the power grid can be reproduced in pictures by the virtual reality technology. By means of a layering design from bottom to top, a service layer module, a middle layer module and a display layer module are organically integrated to form a dynamic power grid panorama display system on the basis of the virtual reality, wherein a virtual reality module of a display layer comprises a three-dimensional graph engine module, a three-dimensional primary and secondary equipment virtual assembly module and a plug-and-play container type component running module. The dynamic power grid panorama display system has the advantages of three-dimensional display, real-time interaction and dynamic simulation, is convenient for scheduling operators to observe current running states thereof more visually so as to take running control measures more effectively and more pertinently.

A wind turbine with a sensor that measures the out-of-plane deflection of the blades and a controller that uses the signal from the sensor to determine the risk of a tower strike. The controller takes any necessary action to prevent a tower strike when it determines that the risk of a strike is high. The sensor can include strain gages or accelerometers mounted on the blades or it can include a fixed sensor mounted on the side of the tower to measure tower clearance as the blade passes by. The control action taken can include pitching blades, yawing the nacelle, or stopping the turbine. The controller is preferably a fuzzy logic controller.

Signatures of character strings in a document which may indicate a possible intrusion into or attack on a networked computer system or node thereof or other security breach are detected at high speed using a hardware accelerator within the environment of a hardware parser accelerator. An interrupt or exception can thus be issued to a host CPU before a command which may constitute such a security breach, intrusion or attack can be made executable by parsing of a document. The CPU can initiate network control measures to prevent or limit the intrusion.

The present invention is a system and method for disease mapping and infection control. It may collect data from many sources, including through the tracking of Entities and external sources. Such data may be analysed by the system and represented visually. The system further facilitates data modelling. The present invention facilitates calculations of risk and exposure to an infection posed to a person, location or community. The system may be used to test and monitor infection spread and control measures. It can further be configured so as to produce reporting based upon its data to produce information relevant to the creation of infection control policies. The reports may also be utilized to develop standards and measures to improve the operation response to an outbreak of infection within an Institution or a Geographical Area, at the syndromic or pandemic levels.

Institutional risk is calculated by collecting information about the products and services offered by an institution and assigning a risk value to each product and service. Other aspects and components of an institution are also assigned risk values. The various risk values are calculated along with institutional controls that are in place to mitigate risk in order to determine an overall residual risk assessment for the entity. Forecasts can be made for an institution by adding new or subtracting current business activities and/or institutional controls and calculating an alternative overall residual risk assessment.

The invention discloses a method for tracking infection sources and predicting trends of infectious diseases by utilizing mobile phone tracks. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring new infected person data from a disease control and prevention center to obtain new infected persons; acquiring mobile phone traffic data and related base station data of the new infected persons in periods of time before and after the attack; carrying out track visualized analysis on the mobile phone traffic data and the related base station data of the new infected persons on a geographic information system platform; and analyzing the high-danger areas and crowds with infectious disease transmission, and predicting the trends of the infectious diseases. According to the method disclosed in the invention, the mobile phone tracks of the new infected persons and the geographic information system are combined, so that the regions through which the infection sources pass and the environmental conditions of the regions can be rapidly and correctly judged, the high-danger areas and crowds can be determined and prevention and control measures can be adopted in time.

Disclosed is an improved method and system for implementing DBMS server performance optimization. According to some approaches, the method and system incorporates DBMS wizards recommendations with analytical queuing network models for purpose of evaluating different alternatives and selecting the optimum performance management solution with a set of expectations, enhancing autonomic computing by generating periodic control measures which include recommendation to add or remove indexes and materialized views, change the level of concurrency, workloads priorities, improving the balance of the resource utilization, which provides a framework for a continuous process of the workload management by means of measuring the difference between the actual results and expected, understanding the cause of the difference, finding a new corrective solution and setting new expectations.

The invention discloses a multi-time scale forecasting method for a road traffic running situation. Highway traffic parameters in different time scales are analyzed according to the running time-space characteristics of highway traffic flow; the highway road traffic running situations in different time scales are forecast by an exponential smoothing algorithm, a weighted average algorithm and a Kalman filtering method respectively; a highway road traffic running situation evaluation index system and a multi-time scale highway traffic flow running situation forecasting technology are constructed to implement the conversion from experience guide to science guide for the highway running management and the preliminary conversion from passive management to active management. Therefore, the running efficiency of a road traffic running situation forecasting system can be increased effectively, the running cost of the system is reduced, the coordination degree between road traffic guidance and management can be improved obviously, and an optimal policy is provided for improving a traffic management and control measure and planning a travel plan for a road traffic manager and a user to a large extent.

The invention discloses an automobile driver emotion monitoring and automobile control system, and solves the technical problems that in the prior art, the monitoring method for driver's adverse emotion is single, and no emotion regulating measure and no corresponding automobile safety control measure are provided. The automobile driver emotion monitoring and automobile control system provided by the invention can control the automobile and regulate driver's emotion promptly when the driver's emotion is detected to be in an adverse state, and comprises a camera shooting device, an emotion monitoring and processing unit and a sounding unit, wherein the output end of the camera shooting device is connected with the emotion monitoring and processing unit; and the emotion monitoring and processing unit is connected with the sounding unit, an engine controller and an electronic steering controller through a communication bus.

The invention discloses a thermal management device for power batteries and a thermal management method for the power batteries under abnormal working conditions. The thermal management device for the power batteries comprises an acquisition module, an evaluation module, a forecast module, a display module and a control module, wherein the forecast module is used for calculating the heat generation rate and the specific heat capacity according to temperature and temperature rise rate information obtained by the acquisition module and the evaluation module and information such as types, operating states, states of charge and the like of the power batteries so as to obtain forecasted temperature field distribution of a battery unit, and the display module is used for displaying the temperature field distribution of the battery unit forecasted by the forecast module and a current alarm status of the battery unit to a user. The thermal management method for the power batteries is capable of forecasting the temperature field distribution of the battery unit according to acquired temperature and temperature rise data, and at least one of control measures such as turn-off, heat dissipation, alarm and the like is effectively taken, so that the danger of an automobile due to the power batteries can be reduced under the abnormal working conditions.

The invention provides a building construction quality safety online risk assessment system. The system comprises: a project management module, an engineering information module, a risk identification module, a risk assessment module and a dynamic risk assessment module. The project management module is used for information management of a building construction project and a case library. The engineering information module is used for general situation information management of the building construction project. The risk identification module can automatically identify a risk event and a risk factor according to an engineering general situation information system so as to form a risk list and a risk tree. The risk assessment module carries out data reasoning according to comparison of the project general situation information and the similar project information in a database, estimates a risk event generation probability and losses, determines a risk grade, determines an importance degree of the risk factor through a sensitivity analysis and automatically searches the database so as to obtain a pre-control measure and form a risk assessment report. The dynamic risk assessment module is used for risk tracking, monitoring and situation evaluation during an engineering construction process.

The invention relates to a quick load test method for bridge carrying capacity, and aims to provide a quick and accurate bridge carrying capacity evaluating method. The method comprises the following steps: performing a bridge quasi-static load test; establishing an initial finite element model; correcting the model by a control measuring point strain influence line obtained through actual measurement of the quasi-static load test; respectively distributing loads on the model before and after the correction according to the load test requirement, and calculating to obtain control measuring point flexivity values f before the correction and f after the correction; and defining that eta'=1.1*f after the correction/f before the correction, obtaining a check-calculation coefficient Z2 of a structure according to the efficiency coefficient eta', and performing check calculation on the structure through Z2.

Provided is a method and device for assessing and monitoring voltage security in a power system. More specifically, a method and device for assessing and monitoring the value of reactive power load when changes in reactive power outputs of at least some of the generators in the electrical power system cause all of the generators in the system to reach the combined operating limit of their reactive power output. In response thereto, the method and device are further adapted to initiate suitable control measures such as switching of transformer banks and/or capacitor/reactor banks, as well as shedding loads whenever necessary to mitigate an impending voltage stability problem.

The invention relates to a method for optimizing and controlling the dissymmetrical space time of a roundabout; each inlet of the roundabout is provided with two sets of signal lamps which assign wayleaves to loop vehicles and intra-annular vehicles in turn in order that the vehicles pass through an annular-island interleaving section alternately according to a signal lamp control proposal. According to the condition of annular-island flow rate, the traffic signal time of a left-hand traffic flow is determined with the largest parking number as a constraint condition; in addition, the starting and the intermitting time of a traffic signal in a transverse and intersectant inlet road takes the safety of the traffic flow and the need of the largest traffic into account, actualizes flexible control measures and best coordinates and utilizes the space-time resource of the roundabout. According to the dynamic change of the traffic flow, the optimal control is carried out. The method for optimizing and controlling the dissymmetrical space time of the roundabout can effectively relieve the conditions of congestion and deadlock in the intersectant roundabout, improve the safety of the roundabout and is easy for practical application.

The invention establishes a nonlinear and coefficient variation infectious disease predictive model aiming at epidemic diseases with viruses which have infectivity at a latent period and a period of onset, provides an epidemic situation control function directly related to the model, simulating and predicting effects of different control measures and different control degrees on the basis of prediction in consideration of the control measures, considers the epidemic situation control as a continuous change process, integrally simulating and predicting development and control of the epidemic situation and provides crucial quantitative information for decision-making departments to optimally decide and control the epidemic situation with the smallest cost. By adopting the invention, a relative error for simulating SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes) in Beijing areas in 2003 is 0.98% and predictive results for influenza A virus subtype H1N1 in US and Japan are well matched with the actual epidemic situation development, a quantified control factor for preventing the influenza A virus subtype H1N1 at an initial development stage and controlling the spread of the epidemic situation is obtained and epidemic situation development conditions of different control intensities and different susceptible people are predicted.

The invention discloses a road weather condition monitoring system and a road weather condition monitoring method. The monitoring system comprises a road weather data acquisition system, a road meteorological data processing system and a road condition execution system, wherein the road weather data acquisition system acquires meteorological information of the road surface and uploads the meteorological information to the road meteorological data processing system, the meteorological condition is judged by the road meteorological data processing system, and the traffic operating environment prewarning and control measures are issued through the road condition execution system according to the needs. The monitoring method of the invention adopts multi-sensor fusion recognition, greatly improves the accuracy of road condition recognition, and is low in cost and convenient in installation.

A method and system, which may be implemented in some embodiments as a video game, for identifying harmful airborne biota, particularly flying insects, and either killing or disabling the harmful airborne biota is disclosed. Lasers, radar, and other types of radiation may be used to illuminate objects in a detection region, with radiation returns detected and applied to a pattern classifier to determine whether the detected airborne biota are harmful, benign or beneficial. Tracking and classification information may be provided to a remotely located game participant who may be permitted to control measures taken to eliminate the harmful airborne biota, these measures including firing pulses of beamed energy or radiation of a sufficient intensity to at least incapacitate them, or mechanical measures such as flying a remotely-controlled miniature unmanned aircraft to engage and kill the pests.

The invention discloses a method for performing real-time regulation and control and digital management on a water environment, which belongs to the technical fields of water environment real-time simulation and management. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring data; establishing a monitoring database; identifying specific pollution areas and pollution sources by establishing a water environment model; and providing a control measure for the concentration and the total emission of point-source and non-point-source pollutants in the specific areas, so that the whole drainage basin can be guided to execute the best management plan, a system for performing real-time regulation and control and digital management on the water environment is established by combining with an informationization mode to regulate and control the water quality of the river in real time, systematic technique support can be provided for drainage basin 'source control and emission reduction', water environment comprehensive treatment and quantitative management, and the application prospect is wide.

The invention discloses a ship collision risk analysis method based on AIS (automatic identification system) data. Based on historical AIS data and standard ship selection and conversion, a density clustering algorithm is used for establishing a heat map of a ship collision risk to realize spatiotemporal visualization of the ship collision risk; based on real-time AIS data and the ship position field, the course direction field, and the navigational speed field, a regional ship collision risk assessment model is constructed, and a Gaussian kernel function kernel density estimation algorithm isused for proposing a dynamic ship collision risk visualization method to realize areal-time update of the regional ship collision risk. The ship collision risk analysis method is based on the AISdata,the spatiotemporal visualization of the ship collision risk is realized,the visual image after the complex abstract ship traffic flow multi-attribute information is effectively dug and fused is realized, so that the risk level of the environment of the location of the ship can be intuitively and conveniently obtained by a driver or an operator, thusself-alertness is improved, the reasonable control measures are taken, and the safe operation of the ship is ensured.

A method for providing context-based power consumption control may include accessing fused context data. The method may further include determining at least one power consumption control measure for each of a plurality of system layers based at least in part on the fused context data. The method may also include performing multilayered power consumption control by implementing at each respective system layer of the plurality of system layers the at least one power consumption control measure determined for the respective system layer. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.

Improved apparatus and methods, via an internet website, developed for the efficient implementation of workers' compensation cost containment practices for multi-unit employers, more particularly relating to indemnity (lost wages) and medical costs of workers' compensation claims in each unit. The methods analyze information about the user's current workers' compensation injury handling best practices and provide quantified results, customized recommendations and tools to reduce costs and improve best practices quality control.

The invention discloses a staff access control method based on face recognition and a staff access control device based on face recognition. The staff access control method comprises the following steps of: receiving log-on messages input by a user, storing and verifying the log-on messages; after the log-on message verification is successful, receiving and storing the messages of staff intending to come in and go out input by the user and the credibility of the staff intending to come in and go out set by the user; receiving the field facial images of field access staff, and comparing the field facial images with the log-on messages and the messages of staff intending to come in and go out to determine the credibility of the field access staff; carrying out first control measures on the field access staff determined as the staff with the first credibility; carrying out second control measures on the field access staff determined as the staff with the secondary credibility; and carrying out third control measures on the field access staff determined as the staff with the third credibility. The staff access control method is capable of realizing the classifying access control on staff coming in and going out according to the difference of credibility.