1038 results about "Hazard" patented technology

Systems and methods for controlling a climate control system of a smart-home environment that includes a plurality of smart devices are provided. One method includes detecting, with a hazard detector of the smart devices, a level of carbon monoxide (CO) at the hazard detector that exceeds a threshold CO level at a location of the hazard detector, determining, by one of the smart devices, that the climate control system includes a combustion based heat source, and in response to the detecting and the determination, transmitting, by a system controller of the climate control system, a first signal to turn off at least one aspect of the climate control system.

A robot includes a hazard sensor, a locomotor, and a system controller. The robot senses a hazard intensity at a location of the robot, moves to a new location in response to the hazard intensity, and autonomously repeats the sensing and moving to determine multiple hazard levels at multiple locations. The robot may also include a communicator to communicate the multiple hazard levels to a remote controller. The remote controller includes a communicator for sending user commands to the robot and receiving the hazard levels from the robot. A graphical user interface displays an environment map of the environment proximate the robot and a scale for indicating a hazard intensity. A hazard indicator corresponds to a robot position in the environment map and graphically indicates the hazard intensity at the robot position relative to the scale.

Systems and methods for detecting and verifying the adequacy of personal protective equipment needed by a person to complete a potentially hazardous task.

Apparatus for routine monitoring and automatic reporting of electrical power and gas utility usage also provides means for detecting and reporting to the relevant utility companies, fire department, and other emergency responders the development of local hazards on premises at which one or more utility usage meters are installed, including the occurrence of a fire, a gas leak, or any other circumstances such as medical emergencies that demand fast response. Such reporting can include automatic reporting of both zero or excess electrical current draw or zero or excess gas usage. The system is clock driven, fully programmable, and expandable to such other types of sensors as would detect and report on such circumstances as the presence of noxious materials as in a chem / bio attack. A permanent record of all reported events is made.

The invention relates to the field of coal mine safety technique, specifically to a down-hole coal and gas outburst hazard early warning system and early warning method. The coal and gas outburst synthesized early-warning system, uses the existing local area network to connect a synthesized early-warning data server, an early-warning data management system and the existing coal mine safety monitoring system; analyzes the coal and gas outburst early-warning data in the synthesized early-warning data server by an outburst early-warning module; and emits early-warning information based on the analyzed result. The inventive coal and gas outburst synthesized early warning system and early warning method can perform centralized management and comprehensive analysis of the geological structure, coal seam occurrence, gas occurrence, mining production, daily forecast indicators, outburst forecast, gas emission and other security information that originally scatter in various functional sections of coal mine on the geographical information system GIS platform, integrates the existing resources, improves the accuracy of early warning, so that the early warning is both real-time and forward-looking, and can effectively prevent the occurrence of coal and gas outburst in coal mine.

The invention belongs to the field of safety production and early warming emergency of construction of water conservancy and hydropower projects and relates to an Internet of Things framework type system and method for monitoring and early warning of major accident potential safety hazards of a water conservancy and hydropower project. According to the Internet of Things framework type system and method for monitoring and early warning of the major accident potential safety hazards of the water conservancy and hydropower project, information of the potential safety hazards which can cause a potential accident in the area of the water conservancy and hydropower project is recognized and positioned to determine the types and levels of the potential safety hazards, and judging of the types and levels of the potential safety hazards and information statistics are carried out; meanwhile, the geographic position, spatial position, dynamic change, state change and state prediction of monitoring points in the area are analyzed by combining with the historical information of the area, early warning information can be generated automatically after potential safety hazard information in the monitoring area is beyond a set alarm value, and comprehensive data information of the potential safety hazards in the area and early warning of the major accident potential safety hazards of the project are provided through communication transmission.

Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for conveying vehicle driving information. A hazard index indicating a level of driving safety is generated for a plurality of road segments. The generating comprises determining a hazard value for each of the plurality of road segments based on weather conditions data associated with the road segments, road conditions data associated with the road segments, and physical attributes of the road segments, and assigning the hazard value to the associated road segment. Location data associated with a remote device is received. Hazard information associated with one or more of the plurality of road segments and based on the location data and the hazard index is transmitted.

The present invention relates to detectors of hazardous environmental conditions (e.g., smoke, gas, motion). Specifically, the invention relates to a hazard detector configured to transmit and / or receive information related to hazardous environmental conditions based at least in part on the location of the hazard detector as identified through one or more location based service means (e.g., global positioning systems (GPS), cellular triangulation, Internet IP geolocation).

The invention relates to a security risk assessment and early warning method for a high-speed railway tunnel during operation period. The method comprises the first step of constructing an evaluationbasis, including a risk rating assessment standard, an evaluation index system and an early warning mechanism establishment: the risk rating assessment standard includes a risk possibility assessmentstandard and a risk consequence severity rating assessment standard. The risk rating assessment is based on the risk probability rating as the ordinate, and the risk consequence severity rating as theabscissa to construct a risk assessment matrix. The evaluation index system is established by the hazard factors of the four aspects of "human- things-management-environment ", and constructs the risk probability membership function of the hazard factors. The early warning mechanism is established by four-color early warning. The second step of risk rating assessment is quantitatively calculatedbased on the membership function and the second-level fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model, and conducted combining the risk consequence severity rating assessment standard and the risk rating assessment matrix. The third step of determining the early warning rating: obtained by coupling the superposition analysis risk rating and the early warning indicator risk rating. The beneficial effects of the security risk assessment and early warning method for a high-speed railway tunnel during operation period are that the evaluation results are quantified, and the decision is based on science.

In one embodiment, an electronically controlled hatch system for safe ingress, egress, hazard detection, and methods thereof are provided to reduce or eliminate hazards to personnel, including protection of people above and below a scuttle hatch, access port, skylight or elevated deck. Said hatch system reduces the risk of falls while ascending or descending a ladder through an access port. In certain embodiments, severe weather, hazard, security, and other safety information are detected and transmitted to a central control unit for processing and regulating the opening and closing of a hatch covering the access port and / or raising and lowering a safety railing system based on said information and / or user input. Said hatch system may include an actuator and guides for automatically locking / unlocking and opening / closing a hatch, an actuator and guides for automatically raising / lowering a railing system, hazard, security, lighting, and other safety monitoring detectors / apparatuses, and a centralized controller.

System for customizing hazard notifications based on user activity includes a hazard detector and a computer server system communicatively coupled to the hazard detector. The hazard detector detects a hazard level that is greater than a threshold setting, the hazard level indicating an amount of smoke or carbon monoxide present at the hazard detector. The hazard detector generates hazard data indicating the detection of the hazard level and transmits the hazard data to the computer server system. The computer server system associates a location with the hazard detector. Activity data indicating a user location is received at the computer server system and the hazard data is received at the computer server system. The computer server system generates a notification based on the hazard location and the user location in response to receiving the hazard data.

The invention particularly relates to an audio / video combined monitoring method and a system thereof, belongs to the technical field of industrial environment monitoring, and aims to solve the problems in the prior art, for example, the monitoring is only conducted by video monitoring operators on duty, who are easy to be fatigue and hardly identify places with potential safety hazards, moreover, video monitoring is limited by functions and viewing angles, so that the potential hazard cannot be found in time, thereby missing rescue opportunities. The audio / video combined monitoring method uses audio signals and video signals at the same time to conduct environmental monitoring, and guides the operators on duty to selectively observe video windows by using the identification results of the audio signals. The processing method of the audio signals comprises the following steps: (1) feature extraction, (2) model training, (3) sound classification, (4) online study, and (5) hazard rating evaluation.

A control system that activates countermeasures to hazards indicated by a database and by information systems external to the vehicle by activating a plurality of vehicle systems. The control system analyzes location and time information regarding multiple situations that may coincide with the path of the vehicle and controls vehicle systems to provide countermeasures to hazards when probability of encountering those hazards meets a sufficient threshold.

Embodiments of a testing method for optimizing a therapy to a diabetic patient comprise collecting at least one sampling set of biomarker data, computing a probability distribution function, a hazard function, a risk function, and a risk value for the sampling set of biomarker data wherein, wherein the probability distribution function is calculated to approximate the probability distribution of the biomarker data, the hazard function is a function which yields higher hazard values for biomarker readings in the sampling set indicative of higher risk of complications, the risk function is the product of the probability distribution function and the hazard function, and the risk value is calculated by the integral of the risk function, minimizing the risk value by adjusting the diabetic patient's therapy, and exiting the testing method when the risk value for at least one sampling set is minimized to an optimal risk level.

System for providing a hazardous materials hazardous material alert. The system includes a method for transmitting a hazardous material alert for use with a vehicle that is transporting hazardous material. The method comprises steps of detecting a hazard event, and transmitting the hazardous material alert in response to the hazard event, wherein the hazardous material alert includes information relating to the hazardous material.

A system for monitoring hazards and determining potential loss exposure resulting from those hazards, the system comprising:a first user input component for permitting a user to specify at least one geographic location to be monitored;a second user input component for permitting a user to specify at least one hazard parameter to be monitored for the at least one monitored location;a first data acquisition component for acquiring hazard data for the at least one monitored location, wherein the first data acquisition component is configured to acquire the data from at least two disparate data sources and aggregate that data in a seamless data set;a second data acquisition component for acquiring data regarding entities associated with the at least one monitored location;an analytical engine for determining the potential loss exposure to the entities associated with the at least one monitored location resulting from the occurrence of hazards at the at least one monitored location; anda reporting engine for reporting the results of the analytical engine to a user.A method for monitoring hazards and determining potential loss exposure resulting from those hazards, the method comprising:specifying (i) at least one geographic location to be monitored, and (ii) at least one hazard parameter to be monitored for the at least one monitored location, and acquiring (a) hazard data for the at least one monitored location, wherein the acquired hazard data is from at least two disparate data sources, and aggregating the hazard data into a seamless data set, and (b) acquiring data regarding insured entities associated with the at least one monitored location;determining potential loss exposure to the entities associated with the at least one monitored location resulting from the occurrence of hazards at the at least one monitored location; andreporting the determined potential loss exposure to a user.

A personal alarm system includes a monitoring base station and one or more remote sensing units in two-way radio communication. An electronic handshake between the base station and each remote unit is used to assure system reliability. The remote units transmit at selectable power levels. In the absence of an emergency, a remote unit transmits at a power-conserving low power level. Received field strength is measured to determine whether a remote unit has moved beyond a predetermined distance from the base station. If the distance is exceeded, the remote unit transmits at a higher power level. The remote unit includes sensors for common hazards including water emersion, smoke, excessive heat, excessive carbon monoxide concentration, and electrical shock. The base station periodically polls the remote units and displays the status of the environmental sensors. The system is useful in child monitoring, for use with invalids, and with employees involved in activities which expose them to environmental risk. Alternative embodiments include a panic button on the remote unit for summoning help, and an audible beacon on the remote unit which can be activated from the base station and useful for locating strayed children. In another embodiment, the remote unit includes a Global Positioning System receiver providing location information for display by the base station.

The invention discloses a hard roof mine impact ground pressure hazard risk prediction analysis method. The hard roof mine impact ground pressure hazard risk prediction analysis method comprises substituting obtained mechanical parameters into an energy release equation based on an occurred impact ground pressure hazard to obtain the energy increase degree REC; performing the quantitative characterization on the energy absorption degree AEC according to six divided supporting schemes; dividing specific mine impact ground pressure hazard risk prediction analysis frameworks according to the degree of the influence on mining, wherein the formula of the impact ground pressure hazard potential RDP is as follow; calculating the impact ground pressure hazard potential produced in the mining process of the high press area in the process of the newly occurred hard roof breaking and performing comparison on the impact ground pressure hazard potential and the established impact ground pressure hazard risk prediction analysis frameworks to determine the hazard degree of the impact ground pressure. According to the hard roof mine impact ground pressure hazard risk prediction analysis method, the scientific quantification is performed on the impact ground pressure hazard potential induced by the hard roof breaking in a mine, the calculation method is simple, the required mechanical parameters are easy to obtain, and the impact ground pressure hazard risk of the hard roof mine is simply and conveniently determined.

The invention discloses an electrical fire warning service method and system. The electrical fire warning information processing method comprises the steps that an electrical fire comprehensive monitor sends detecting parameters obtained by detecting and computing parameters obtained by computing to a storage respectively; the detecting parameters, the computing parameters and meter numbers are sent to an electrical fire warning information processor; the electrical fire warning information processor carries out electric energy quality analysis computing on the received detecting parameters, according to the electric power detecting parameters, the electric power computing parameters and electric energy quality parameters and the changing trend thereof, whether electric equipment is in fault is judged; according to the meter numbers, electric safety data of equipment corresponding to the meter numbers are called from a safety database, comparing analysis is carried out according to the detecting parameters and the electric power computing parameters, whether potential safety hazards exist in the electric equipment is judged, the type and the degree of the potential safety hazards are judged, and an electric equipment safety analysis table is formed and is displayed. According to the electrical fire warning service method and system, electrical fire hidden danger can be effectively avoided.

The invention relates to a power system short-term risk determination method taking disaster factors into account and belongs to the field of power system reliability and risk analysis. The method comprises the steps: geographically dividing regions where disasters causing power system transmission line failure are distributed (disaster regions for short, e.g. regions of lightning strokes, ice disasters, bird hazards and the like); establishing a corresponding relationship between power transmission devices and the disaster regions according to positions of the power transmission devices of a power system and the geographical distribution of the disaster regions; calculating the conditional failure rate of the power transmission devices located in the disaster regions when the disasters occur through carrying out statistics on historical failure of the power transmission devices of the power system and reasons for the historical failure; determining the power outage risk of the power system in a future short term by using power system risk assessment techniques according to weather forecast information and the conditional failure rate of the power transmission devices. By using the method, potential power outage accidents of the power system under disaster weather are warned, and maintenance plans and operating modes for the power system are arranged reasonably, so that large-scale power outage accidents of the power system are prevented.

The invention discloses a method for testing conductivity of medium material, wherein the method comprises the following steps of: positioning an electric potential probe at a zero electric potential position above a sample after the preparation before testing is finished; confirming the placing position of the sample, confirming the position coordinate of an electric potential measuring point bya probe driving mechanism, then closing a vacuum jar, turning on the power of an electric gun, and performing electronic irradiation to the sample via a Faraday cut test; quickly descending an electric potential meter probe to the front surface of the sample every 10 minutes to perform inducted non-contact measurement, wherein the data measured by a micro galvanometer and the electric potential probe is waved between negative 0.5% and positive 0.5%, then the charge of the sample is regarded as saturation; turning off the electric gun, attenuating the similar process via a tapping index form in the sample interior electric charge Q and measuring the electric potential decay process of the sample; in a word, the attenuation relationship of the surface electric potential of the sample along time is measured by a surface electric potential probe, and the conductivity of the sample can be calculated according to the sample surface attenuated electric potential at different time. The conductivity testing equipment in the invention can be applied to hazard assessment of deep charging, and also can provide valuable engineering data for the protection of deep charging or discharging.

The invention discloses a method for optimizing and balancing power-cut schemes. The method includes the steps that firstly, safety analysis checking is conducted on the drafted power-cut schemes, probably-caused safety risks and reliability of the power-cut schemes are comprehensively evaluated and analyzed, safety early warning is conducted in time before the schemes are executed, and therefore potential safety hazards are reduced; the power-cut schemes passing safety analysis checking are kneaded and analyzed, the power-cut schemes with the overlapped power-cut ranges are kneaded, the number of power-cut times of users is reduced, and therefore power supply reliability is improved; scheduling analysis is conducted on the kneaded power-cut schemes, the power-cut schemes of different types such as overhauls, service expansion and defects are comprehensively considered, factors such as holidays and festivals, electricity protection tasks and important users are considered in the scheduling process, dispatching, work area and construction unit workloads are distributed in a balanced mode, and a scientific power-cut time arrangement scheme is proposed.

A variable resolution grid provides a mechanism for focusing specific concentrations of risk exposure on a geographical grid to determine projected loss caused by a particular catastrophe. The geographic grid provides a stable base map by using latitudes and longitudes to define the grid points and cells. Each cell is assigned a geographic identifier or geocode that identifies the location of the cell and its associated resolution. The resolution of the grid may be varied depending in part, on the resolution of any available of hazard data.

The invention relates to the field of information security, and specifically, the invention relates to an APT firewall system. An extranet interface module 101, an abnormal flow detection module 102, an intranet interface module 103, an abnormal association module 104, a retrospective evaluation module 105 and a host program monitoring module 106 are integrated in the system for detecting the flow of an extranet and an intranet in real time, monitoring the program process in real time and further decomposing and identifying abnormal flow and abnormal behaviors containing APT threats so as to locate the APT threat level, intercept the APT communication, clear the APT Trojan program and eliminate the threat attacks and the potential safety hazards.

The invention discloses an automated penetration testing method and system, including an automatic penetration method and a manual penetration method; in the manual penetration method, it is necessary to select a penetration mode for automatic penetration; the penetration mode includes loophole penetration, brute force cracking, and WEB penetration and social engineering tests. The present invention has the advantages of loophole hazard display, comprehensive coverage inspection, and automatic penetration. By utilizing the discovered loopholes, the present invention displays the hazards caused by the loopholes, deters development and operation and maintenance personnel, forms indirect security awareness education for them, and improves personnel security. Security awareness; comprehensive coverage inspection, through security inspection of networks, applications, and personnel; through automated penetration, improve the efficiency and comprehensiveness of security personnel inspections.

The invention discloses a method and a system for decision making and early warning based on ground subsidence monitoring. The method comprises the following steps of setting a plurality of monitoring points, and positioning the monitoring points in a monitoring map, so as to obtain the monitoring data; calculating and analyzing the monitoring data, so as to obtain the feature values of the monitoring data; establishing a single measuring point calculating model, a multi-measuring point calculating model and a time sequence model; determining the parameters of the models, so as to obtain a single measuring point predicting model, a multi-measuring point predicting model and a time sequence predicting model; generating a subsidence hazard level judging rule; obtaining the to-be-monitored data, and calculating the subsidence amount or subsidence rate of each model; determining the ground subsidence hazard level of a monitoring point on the basis of the subsidence amount or subsidence rate of each model according to the subsidence hazard level judging rule, and performing early warning. The system comprises a monitoring point positioning module, a data obtaining module, a data analysis module and a display module. The method and the system have the advantages that the monitoring, decision making and early warning on the ground subsidence are performed, and the integrated data management and processing are realized.

A system and method display a hazard free area around an aircraft that is modified to alert a pilot if a threshold distance between a detected object and the aircraft is reached. The modification may include, for example, altering the size of the hazard free area and its color. Additional information that may be displayed includes distance to the object, width of the hazard free area, stopping distance of the aircraft, and a route to avoid the object.

The invention relates to a coal mine safety monitoring system staged and sectional alarm method. The coal mine safety monitoring system staged and sectional alarm method comprises the following stepsthat hazard sources can be monitored by a monitoring system are listed; a risk level of the hazard sources is evaluated, and the hazard sources are divided into different stages according to the risklevel; a single hazard source warning criterion is set; according to the stages of the hazard sources, different weights are given, and a comprehensive staged warning criterion is set in combination with the single hazard source warning criterion; according to the comprehensive staged warning criterion, staged alarm is carried out; and system control measures for different warning stages are set.The coal mine safety monitoring system staged and sectional alarm method predicts the gas concentration of a coal mining face in advance, conducts gas outburst early warning on a tunneling working surface, and conducts alarm and power failure according to the staged alarm and power failure strategies; and when alarm occurs, voice audible and visual alarm are sent out, and short message notifications are sent to relevant personnel according to the staged alarm stages, so that the safety production management requirements are ensured.

A system of interconnected alarm modules for a building which warn of detectable hazards in and around the building as well as hazards such as natural disasters which originate elsewhere. The network includes at least one hazardous condition alarm module, capable of detecting dangerous conditions in and around the building such as carbon monoxide or smoke and which provides an audible warning accordingly and also transmits hazard-specific data through the network to all other alarm modules. For other types of hazard conditions, the network includes a radio receiver alarm module which receives broadcasts such as those from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that includes encoded data about hazards according to type of hazard and geographic location. When the radio receiver alarm module receives a broadcast which contains data indicating a threat for the geographic area to which it is preprogrammed, it provides an audible warning accordingly and also sends data, specific to the type of threat, to all other connected alarm modules. Each connected alarm module responds to data received from other interconnected alarm modules by generating audible alarm warnings specific to the type of threat. The radio receiver alarm module may be capable of receiver other types of radio or satellite broadcasts. Electric power to the network is preferably supplied by the building's power mains but may also be provided by a battery backup in the event of a power failure. This invention increases the usefulness of distributed hazardous condition detection systems, allowing them to warn about a great variety of dangers such as tornadoes, earthquakes and terrorism as well as the presence of smoke or other substances for which they were originally intended.