354 results about "Distributed intelligence" patented technology

A programmable lighting control system integrates time-based, sensor-based, and manual control of lighting and other loads. The system includes one or more groups of controlled lighting areas, which may be, for example, floors of a building. Each group may have one or more lighting zones, which may be, for example, individual rooms or offices on a building floor. Each lighting zone includes occupancy and / or daylight sensors that may be wirelessly coupled to a gateway of the group. Each gateway is coupled to a network, such as, for example, a local area network (LAN). Control software, residing on a computer (e.g., a personal computer or a server) coupled to the network and accessible via the network, remotely communicates with and controls the lighting zones either individually, groupwise, or globally. Each lighting zone can also be locally controlled at the gateway and can function independently of the control software and the gateway.

A ballast for use in a multi-ballast lighting system wherein the ballasts are coupled together by a digital communication network. The ballast comprises a power circuit portion for providing an electrical current to power a lamp. The ballast further includes a sensor input circuit for receiving at least one sensor input from a sensor device, a processor receiving an input from the sensor input circuit and providing control signals to control the operation of the ballast, and a communication port coupled to the processor and to the communication network for exchanging data. The ballast processor is operative to receive a serial data that has a portion defining whether the message is in a first or a second format, the first format comprising a DALI standard format and the second format comprising a format providing extended functionality. The ballast processor is capable of processing messages in either the first or second formats.

A ballast for use in a multi-ballast lighting system wherein the ballasts are coupled together by a digital communication network. The ballast comprises a power circuit portion for providing an electrical current to power a lamp. The ballast further includes a sensor input circuit for receiving at least one sensor input from a sensor device, a processor receiving an input from the sensor input circuit and providing control signals to control the operation of the ballast, and a communication port coupled to the processor and to the communication network for exchanging data. The ballast processor is operative to receive a serial data that has a portion defining whether the message is in a first or a second format, the first format comprising a DALI standard format and the second format comprising a format providing extended functionality. The ballast processor is capable of processing messages in either the first or second formats.

A gaming table with multiple sensing devices on or proximate the table. Each sensing device or groups of devices has a separate intelligent module that senses changes in the sensing devices. The module date stamps and transmits the data over a network to an external database.

An Internet of things (IoT) system, including a distributed system of virtual machines, includes at least one IoT platform system control engine, that includes a platform system control engine secure system space and a IoT platform system control engine user defined space, at least one network node device that includes a network node device secure system space and an IoT network node device user defined space, and at least one edge device that includes an edge device secure system space and an edge device user defined space, where the secure system space of the control engine, the network node device, and the edge device are each configured to be secured to prevent unauthorized access, and the user defined spaces of the platform system control engine, the network node device and the edge device each define a respective virtual machine.

A communications system with distributed intelligence thereby allowing easy expansion of the system while also providing a high degree of fault tolerance. The communications system allows for conversion, transmission and restoration of the human voice over a digital network. A telephone can be used as the input device for receiving the analog signal, or human voice. The telephone is also used to select a destination for the analog signal. The information is transmitted over the digital network and may also traverse through a private branch exchange and a wireless network before it arrives at its destination. At the destination the transmitted information is restored to an analog signal and played over one or more speakers. The present system is especially suited for use with an existing network.

Exemplary systems, methods, and apparatuses for distributed intelligence in facility lighting control are provided. A facility lighting system may be organized into multiple control areas, each of which may include one or more component devices. Each lighting control area may be associated with a control apparatus, which controls the operation of the lighting devices of the associated control area based on various types of signal information. Signal information may include information concerning local conditions or environments, as well as information from a centralized control server. Some embodiments further include monitoring the operation and predicting fault states of the lighting control area.

A system and method for distributed intelligence of power tracking and power allocation may include: receiving data by at least one computer from a plurality of identified charging stations and vehicles of customers at distributed locations throughout a power grid; analyzing, with at least one processor of the at least one computer, the data with respect to available power for those locations and customer historical usage and profiles; and sending commands, with the at least one processor, to reallocate power to assets of the power grid to handle fluctuations or forecasted fluctuations in power demand based on the analysis. Customer preferences may also be considered in predicting power demand issues and need for demand response. Economic rules may be executed to incentivize the customers to comply with demand response requirements where demand is greater than power supply.

Exemplary systems, methods, and apparatuses for distributed intelligence in facility lighting control are provided. A facility lighting system may be organized into multiple control areas, each of which may include one or more component devices. Each lighting control area may be associated with a control apparatus, which controls the operation of the lighting devices of the associated control area based on various types of signal information. Signal information may include information concerning local conditions or environments, as well as information from a centralized control server. Some embodiments further include monitoring the operation and predicting fault states of the lighting control area.

Comprehensive, Systematic and Practical Engineering / Manufacture / Operation / Management System for Electric Vehicle with dual usage for Decentralized Smart Power Storage that includes: Smart Battery Subsystem (SBS), which includes the Smart Battery Assembly (SBA) with embedded computer / data logger and the Battery Compartment (BC) on the EV and in the Swapping Recharge Stations (RS); the computers on the EV and RS; hardware and software for the SBA Exchange / Recharge / Maintenance / Management / Billing Subsystem; the Smart Decentralized Energy Storage Subsystem for on-line, off-line and / or emergency uses. The SBA can be swapped at RS or recharged at home or any recharge stations, or dismounted / mounted easily in garage or during roadside service. The SBA could include the built-in charge controller and inverter. All the subsystems are indispensable parts or options for this invented integrated system.

A commercial refrigeration system including a compressor, a condenser, a valve, and an evaporator coil, all of which are in fluid communication. The refrigeration system further including a fixture adapted to be cooled by the evaporator coil, a system controller operable to control operation of the refrigeration system, and a subsystem controller in communication with the system controller. The subsystem controller being operable to monitor at least one parameter of a subsystem having at least one of the compressor, condenser, valve, and fixture, and being further operable to execute a command from the system controller to affect the operation of the subsystem.

The present invention is directed to utility service delivery wherein distributed intelligence and networking is used in the optimization of the service delivery. The present invention employs a network of data collection nodes and aggregation nodes located on a power grid controlled by a controlling agency. The data collection nodes comprise Intelligent Communicating Devices (ICDs) and Communicating Devices (CDs), which transmit metrics they collect over the power grid from locations near meters or service transformers to the aggregation nodes. Commands, policies, and program updates may be transmitted from a server at an aggregation node to the ICDs and CDs. The ICDs are also capable of issuing control commands to the CDs and grid management devices, acting locally and / or in conjunction with other ICDs, CDs, aggregation nodes, and central controlling agencies. Through these communications and commands, utility services delivery and utilization is optimized.

A control architecture for material handling includes multiple tiers of controllers, such as three. The lowest-level controllers interact directly with sensors and actuators used in the material handling system, such as photo-eyes and motors used with conveyors. The lowest-level controllers receive higher level commands from one or more mid-level controllers. The mid-level controllers, in turn, receive still higher level commands and information from at least one upper level controller. Each mid and low level controller is designed to include sufficient intelligence to deal with many of the signals and messages it receives without having to forward those signals or messages to the next higher level controller and await instructions from that higher level controller. The system thus distributes intelligence amongst the controllers. The system is well-adapted for application to conveyor control systems.

A system and methodology that employs an agent technology logic layer operating in connection with or integral to a controller is provided. The logic layer can be a functional extension of the controller's firmware that facilitates logical reasoning and decision-making with regard a network as a function of individual agent(s) state and / or status. The components of the subject invention can facilitate combining high level reasoning and / or decision making capabilities with conventional control programs to effect agent-based system diagnosis and / or system reconfiguration.

In one embodiment, a distributed intelligence agent (DIA) collects local state information from a plurality of minimalistic connected objects (MCOs) in a computer network, the local state information for each MCO comprising a corresponding neighbor list and a selected next-hop for the respective MCO, where one or more of the MCOs are configured to select their next-hop without any self-optimization. The DIA may then analyze a current routing topology, which is the combined result of the selected next-hops, in comparison to a computed optimal routing topology, and (optionally) in light of required service level agreement (SLA), to determine whether to optimize the current routing topology. In response to determining that the current routing topology should be optimized, the DIA may transmit a unicast routing instruction to one or more individual MCOs to instruct those individual MCOs how to optimize the current routing topology, accordingly.

A control architecture for material handling includes multiple tiers of controllers, such as three. The lowest-level controllers interact directly with sensors and actuators used in the material handling system, such as photo-eyes and motors used with conveyors. The lowest-level controllers receive higher level commands from one or more mid-level controllers. The mid-level controllers, in turn, receive still higher level commands and information from at least one upper level controller. Each mid and low level controller is designed to include sufficient intelligence to deal with many of the signals and messages it receives without having to forward those signals or messages to the next higher level controller and await instructions from that higher level controller. The system thus distributes intelligence amongst the controllers. The system is well-adapted for application to conveyor control systems.

Methods and systems for efficient and effective distribution of system management messages between customer and service provider sites are provided. Customer sites each recognize characteristics of the content of messages distributed by the system and receive only messages relevant to the customer site. System dynamic changes are adapted to such as inter-site communication link interruption or congestion and providing seamless automated information technologies operations during these system dynamic changes. Automated management services are only postponed until such communication link can be restored. Two illustrative embodiments are provided. In one embodiment, system management resides at the service provider site with local system management backup at the customer site. In a second embodiment, system management resides at both the service provider site and customer site.

Multiple autonomous intelligent Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) are positioned on distribution lines in an electrical power grid. The intelligent RTUs are capable of performing advanced analytics on power flowing through the distribution lines, thus providing accurate real-time analysis of the power.

The invention provides a large-scale distribution intelligent data collection system and a method based on industrial cloud and belongs to the technical field of data collection. The system user is subjected to permission verification by an user management module in the invention; the log management function is added to record the collection result,storage result and alarm log of each collection period; the remaining collection nodes are used as redundancy hot-backup; meanwhile, when the system is abnormal, the collection nodes are dispatched; the monitoring alarm function is added to monitor each aspect of the system and alarm the abnormal system in real time; the data compression function is added to compress the collection data, save space and improve the efficiency; when the collection nodes are abnormal in the current collection period, the backup collection nodes store the collection result of the backup collection task in a database so as to ensure the fault tolerance and reliability of the current sampling period collection.

The invention puts forward a method with verification for intelligently crawling network information in a distributed way. The method comprises the following steps that: when a judgement result shows that the target page data of a website can be obtained after login verification is carried out, obtaining corresponding login information from a database, carrying out automatic login through a browser, and submitting verification information; starting a timed task, using cookie to access the webpage of the timed task, and carrying out keep-alive processing; starting a network package capture detector, accessing a corresponding target page according to business requirements, carrying out HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol) message analysis, carrying out customization on a crawler script, and determining a task crawling data size; and emitting a broadcast by a main node, notifying a corresponding task node, distributing the crawler script, starting the task node, applying for a task from a main node task queue, carrying out data crawling according to the applied task, and storing the crawled target data into the queue so as to store the crawled target data into the database in batches. By use of the method, a protected page can be automatically logged in and accessed, and a quick and expandable distributed webpage crawler integrated framework capable of mining the script is automatically generated.

The present invention relates to a distributed intelligent motor monitoring system. The system includes a locale bottom layer intelligent monitoring substation, a high layer intelligent monitoring main station, and a modular system application software for executing data acquisition and information processing to realize motor monitoring function. Wherein, the monitoring substation is connected to the motor in corresponding position, and is composed of an intelligent monitoring module including monitoring instrument, instrument and data sampler, the intelligent monitoring main station is composed of computers for realizing motor information centralized processing and intelligent monitoring, the substation and the main station is interconnected by data communication network. The system can realize the real time acquisition and local / remote monitoring for the parameters of single or multiple motors, the motor running status recognition and failure diagnosis function. The system not only can be used as the special equipment for delivery tests and type approval test for the motor manufacturer, but also can be broadly used for the motor real time monitoring or on line failure monitoring for the industrial department such as metallurgy, chemical industry, petroleum and pharmacy.

Nodes within a wireless mesh network are configured to monitor time series data associated with a utility network (or any other device network). One or more servers coupled to the wireless mesh network configures a data ingestion cloud to receive and process the time series data from the nodes to generate data streams. The server(s) also configure a distributed processing cloud to perform historical analysis on data streams, and a real-time processing cloud to perform real-time analysis on data streams. The distributed processing cloud and the real-time processing cloud may interoperate with one another in response to processing the data streams. Specifically, the real-time processing cloud may trigger a historical analysis on the distributed processing cloud, and the distributed processing cloud may trigger real-time processing on the real-time processing cloud. Any of the processing clouds may encompass edge nodes configured to perform real-time processing and generate data streams.

Methods and apparatus are provided for generating applications for communication devices. An IP Terminal Markup Language (IPTML) is disclosed that modifies the operation of communication devices. IPTML allows abstraction of call control, media control and device control aspects of a communication device. An IPTML construct distributes intelligence between communication devices, allows applications to interact with a wide range of devices with varying capabilities and provides end-point functionality that enables converged applications at communication devices. When a communication device is operating, abstraction data related to the communication device is accessed in order to generate an application that modifies the operation of the communication device as a function of the abstraction data.

The present invention is an access control door controller which utilizes three relays, 16 alarm inputs, tamper switch, a Weigand reader, a RS 232 reader and a IP core module to enable access control alarm monitoring, inter locking of doors and / or energy management for a room with the help of a software. The present invention utilizes a distributed communication (peer to peer) thus creating a door access controller System network with a truly distributed intelligence permitting exchange of information between all controllers which may be situated in a single site or over multiple sites connected on a common network. The full system can be configured on the widely used TCP / IP network thus avoiding the need for extensive wiring traditionally required for Access Control System. The controller, with its associated software can support multiple types of readers and can directly interface IP cameras for an integrated TCP / IP based Access Control / CCTV Solution.

The invention relates to a distribution type intelligent video searching system and a using method. The system comprises a monitoring center and one to n intelligent front ends with unique address. A video processing system of each intelligent front end comprises a microprocessor, a data compressing module, a memory and a video analyzing module for storing N rules of the image feature of an event to be captured. The microprocessor analyzes the real-time video according to the rules, and the video data conforming to the rules are compressed as events and stored by classes. Each intelligent front end is connected with the monitoring center of the rear end through a network. The method comprises the following steps of: determining the monitoring rule; identifying the real-time video, and storing by classifying by each front end; sending the search instruction of time and event numbers by the monitoring center; searching the result according to instructions and sending the results back to the monitoring center by the front end; and requesting the front end to send the required video data according to the results by the monitoring center. The invention can realize quick video search based on events, saves a large amount of storing space and transmitting cost, and greatly decreases the workload of searching.

The invention discloses a robot monitoring and automatic mobile system operation method based on distributed intelligent monitoring controlling nodes. A robot monitoring and automatic mobile system based on the distributed intelligent monitoring controlling nodes is built and comprises the intelligent monitoring controlling nodes and a server; a real environment map is drawn and matched with real map coordinates; the server filers and blends image collection result data of all the intelligent monitoring controlling nodes in each cycle; the filtered and blended result data is used for generating a real-time control instruction of the robot and distributing the instruction to a corresponding intelligent monitoring controlling node. The method has the advantages of greatly reducing robot body manufacture cost and achieving robot dead-corner-free monitoring due to the fact that a widely used monitoring camera replaces traditional robot induction devices such as a laser and a speedometer, adopting the distributed structure, greatly improving system expandability and achieving expansion of a monitoring range due to the fact that the number of the nodes can be conveniently increased and reduced at will.

An exemplary apparatus and method for using intelligent gate driver units with distributed intelligence to control antiparallel power modules or parallel-connected electrical switching devices like IGBTs is disclosed. The intelligent gate drive units use the intelligence to balance the currents of the switching devices, even in dynamic switching events. The intelligent gate driver units can use master-slave or daisy chain control structures and instantaneous or time integral differences of the currents of parallel-connected switching devices as control parameters. Instead of balancing the currents, temperature can also be balanced with the intelligent gate driver units.

A intelligent distributed virtual server for providing distributed services to a plurality of clients, including one or more servers units, each server units storing data and providing service for accessing by one or more clients; one or more switches and routers for connecting the clients to the server units and to provide a communication link; and a distribution control station connected to the clients and the server units via the switches and routers, wherein the distribution control station receives a request for a service from a client, and selectively establishes a data link between that client and an server unit, which stores the requested data and provides service, such that the server unit provides the data stream to the client via the communication link, independent of other server units. Therefore, it provides distributed computing cross intra-net or Internet and it provides scalability and all intelligent services such as fault handling, security and others.