468 results about "Microclimate" patented technology

Automated shade systems comprise motorized window coverings, sensors, and controllers that use algorithms to control operation of the automated shade control system. These algorithms may include information such as: 3-D models of a building and surrounding structures, shadow information, reflectance information, lighting and radiation information, ASHRAE clear sky algorithms, log information related to manual overrides, occupant preference information, motion information, real-time sky conditions, solar radiation on a building, a total foot-candle load on a structure, brightness overrides, actual and/or calculated BTU load, time-of-year information, and microclimate analysis.

This invention generally relates to automated shade systems. An automated shade system comprises one or more motorized window coverings, sensors, and controllers that use one or more algorithms to control operation of the automated shade control system. These algorithms may include information such as: 3-D models of a building and surrounding structures; shadow information; lighting and radiation information; ASHRAE clear sky algorithms; log information related to manual overrides; occupant preference information; motion information; real-time sky conditions; solar radiation on a building; a total foot-candle load on a structure; brightness overrides; actual and/or calculated BTU load; time-of-year information; and microclimate analysis.

The present invention of one embodiment includes a combined microclimate, thermal management, life-support system for care of patient and system for measurement of vital signs. The system of one embodiment, provides active external heating and simultaneously provides active internal heating.

A microclimate management sheet, for placing against a person's body, includes a flexible generally fluid impermeable first layer, a flexible generally fluid impermeable second layer with a gas permeable region for facing a patient's body. The first layer is joined with the second layer in a manner to form a chamber between the first layer and the second layer. An inlet operative to be in fluid communication with a supply of gas and in fluid communication with the chamber is provided for delivering a gas to the chamber, with the gas permeable region for directing the gas the patient's body.

This invention generally relates to automated shade systems. An automated shade system comprises one or more motorized window coverings, sensors, and controllers that use one or more algorithms to control operation of the automated shade control system. These algorithms may include information such as: 3-D models of a building and surrounding structures; shadow information; reflectance information; lighting and radiation information; ASHRAE clear sky algorithms; log information related to manual overrides; occupant preference information; motion information; real-time sky conditions; solar radiation on a building; a total foot-candle load on a structure; brightness overrides; actual and/or calculated BTU load; time-of-year information; and microclimate analysis.

The invention relates to an ecological restoration method for a city watercourse. The ecological restoration method for the city watercourse is characterized in that the polluted city watercourse is comprehensively restored with the combination of physical, biological and ecological technologies, the ecological theory is used for reference in the treatment process, the ecological idea is used as the guiding thought, a complex water ecosystem structure is constructed and restored, the original natural state of the watercourse is restored, the self-cleaning capacity of a river system is improved, the environment is beautified, and the local city microclimates are improved at the same time. The ecological restoration method mainly comprises the steps of (1) controlling a pollution source, (2) modifying the river bank, (3) optimizing the environment of the river bottom, (4) modifying the watercourse, (5) conducting aeration and oxygenation, (6) constructing an aquatic plant community, (7) constructing a fish and macrobenthos community, and (8) maintaining the system. The watercourse ecological system restored through the ecological restoration method has the certain anti-interference capacity, on the premise that a large amount of exogenous pollution is cut off, the certain-strength interference can be resisted, and the good ecological environmental effect is obtained. After one-time input, the better ecological benefit can be obtained only with a small number of maintenance costs.

A device for adsorbing water vapor from a gas stream. The device can be incorporated with an enclosure or garment in such a manner so as to enable water vapor to be adsorbed, thereby decreasing the relative humidity in the micrlimate surrounding the user. The water adsorption device is light-weight, has a high mass and volumetric energy capacity. A desiccant material is included within the water adsorption device to adsorb water vapor and a phase-change material is located in thermal communication with the desiccant to increase the loading capacity of the desiccant and maintain a cool gas stream by extracting the heat of adsorption from the desiccant.

The invention discloses a mountain fire image identification method of an image monitoring system of an electric transmission line tower. The mountain fire image identification method comprises the following steps that firstly, the forest fire danger rating is evaluated by means of data of a microclimate on-line monitoring system on the electric transmission line tower, and the image collecting frequency of the on-line monitoring system is adjusted according to rating evaluation; secondly, abnormal situations of an image are detected by the image difference principle; thirdly, skyline segmentation is conducted on the image; fourthly, whether the image has a flame region is judged; fifthly, whether the image has a smoke region is judged; sixthly, whether a fire occurs is judged. The mountain fire image identification method has the advantages that remote early warning of mountain fire of an electric transmission line is achieved, and safe and stable operation of the electric transmission line of an electric system is guaranteed.

The present invention of one embodiment includes a combined microclimate, thermal management, life-support system for care of patient and system for measurement of vital signs. The system of one embodiment, provides active external heating and simultaneously provides active internal heating.

The invention relates to a direct-current micro-grid system and a control method thereof. The direct-current micro-grid system comprises a direct-current power distribution circuit, a bi-directional AC/DC (alternating current/direct current) rectifying/inverting device, a distributed energy generating device, an energy storing device, direct-current loads, alternating-current loads, a urban microclimate interactive system, a clock interactive system, a micro-grid control system and micro-grid protecting devices, an upper scheduling management system is arranged in the micro-grid control system so as to form layered management for micro-grid energy. The direct-current micro-grid control method includes: entering a grid connection mode or an island model according to working state of a large power grid, and determining the working states of the energy storing device and the distributed energy generating device according to information of the urban microclimate interactive system and the clock interactive system. The direct-current micro-grid system can independently supply power to the alternating-current and the direct-current loads and can be connected with a power grid to generate power according to processed result of urban microclimate interactive information, so that requirements on power supply for users are met, cost is reduced, designing, controlling, operation and maintenance of a micro-grid are benefited, and reliability, economy and efficiency of the micro-grid are effectively improved.

The invention relates to an environmental control system, in particular to a house microclimate control system for a biological fermentation hog house, which comprises a lower computer subsystem and an upper computer monitoring subsystem. The lower computer subsystem comprises an input device, a detection unit, a master control unit, a display unit, an executive drive unit and an executive unit. The system is mainly functionally capable of automatically acquiring environment factors, such as interior air temperature, interior air humidity, interior ammonia concentration of the hog house, temperature of padding of a biological fermentation bed, exterior air temperature and exterior humidity of the hog house, and the like, capable of starting and stopping ventilation operation, water curtain cooling operation and interior sprinkling operation to effectively regulate house temperature and ammonia concentration according to physiological comfort of hogs, and capable of intelligently sprinkling to effectively regulate humidity of the biological fermentation bed according to physiological comfort of the hogs and the humidity of the biological fermentation bed.

The invention discloses a micro grid monitoring and energy management device and method. The device comprises a master controller module and a microclimate information monitoring module. The master controller module comprises a central processing unit module, a storage module, a communication module and an auxiliary module. The microclimate information monitoring module comprises a transfer module and an in-situ monitoring module. The method includes an information monitoring and communication modeling step, a super short-term power prediction step based on microclimate monitoring, a rolling optimization step, and a micro grid energy management method based on multi-time scale coordination control. According to the device, sufficient consideration is given to convenience and real-timeness of microclimate information acquisition, and real-time monitoring of various microclimate characteristic quantities is achieved; cost is low, the convenience is high, the real-timeness is strong, and strong flexibility is achieved; the method enables step-by-step thinning to be carried out on a micro grid energy management process and enables the micro power grid monitoring and energy management device to have higher real-timeness and accuracy and to feed back and respond to wind, light and load fluctuation information in a micro grid timely.

The invention relates to a special-region band-type private network transportation communication navigation monitoring and warning device. The device comprises an LTE (long term evolution) private network communication base station, a GPS (global positioning system)/Beidou dual-mode positioning foundation reinforced reference station, a multifunctional vehicle-mounted multimedia information terminal, a sparse distributed monitoring and LED induced warning device, a traffic warning mobile phone APP (application), a tracking body aerial photography system, a microclimate acquisition device, a distributed automatic snow and frost removing device and a background control and data center. By the device, highway all-section non-blind-area high-speed wireless data communication services and highway vehicle sub-meter high-precision navigation and positioning are realized, lanes where vehicles are located are identified accurately, illegal acts such as overspeed and road occupation of the vehicles are judged, accident information is identified through fixed-point monitoring and fixed-point cruising of unmanned aerial vehicles, along-highway meteorological information is acquired in real time, warning information is released in time, and snow-melting agent is sprayed automatically in snowy and frosty weather so as to guarantee traffic safety.

An improved sleep system includes an actively responsive bed and mattress combination. The system adjusts the contour and microclimate of the mattress surface, in addition to the ambient conditions of the sleep environment based on the user's preferences and physiological state. A variety of technologies are integrated into the sleep system in order to determine the settings for an improved sleep environment, and automatically adjust the mattress firmness, bed surface temperature, humidity, and/or ambient light and sound.

The present invention employs chimneys and chimneys structures to move or vent heat and moisture away from the foot and out of the microclimate of the shoe. The chimneys define pathways that utilize convection and other principles to cool and dry the foot. The chimneys and chimney structures can have many different configurations, and can be positioned anywhere desired in the upper. For example, chimneys can be positioned on the sidewalls of the upper, in the tongue, or both. Chimneys and chimney structures can also be used with form-fitting foot coverings such as socks or leggings, or used with other apparel. Specialized footbeds can also be employed with footwear chimneys to evacuate hot, moist air away from the underside of the foot and towards the chimneys.

The invention discloses an intelligent water-saving irrigation internet-of-things control system, comprising an automatic field microclimate observer, a data analyzer, a control device and an irrigation water discharging device; the automatic field microclimate observer is connected with the data analyzer and is used for all-weather on-site monitoring of the meteorological factors of wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, air temperature, air humidity, light intensity, soil temperature, soil humidity, evaporation, atmospheric pressure and total radiation, and for transmitting all monitored data to the data analyzer; the data analyzer is used for predicting crop evapotranspiration in real time according to the data received by the automatic field microclimate observer, and transmitting the crop evapotranspiration predicted in real time to the control device; the control device controls the irrigation water discharging device to arrive at automatic irrigation according to the crop evapotranspiration received by the data analyzer.

The present invention employs chimneys and chimneys structures to move or vent heat and moisture away from the foot and out of the microclimate of the shoe. The chimneys define pathways that utilize convection and other principles to cool and dry the foot. The chimneys and chimney structures can have many different configurations, and can be positioned anywhere desired in the upper. For example, chimneys can be positioned on the sidewalls of the upper, in the tongue, or both. Chimneys and chimney structures can also be used with form-fitting foot coverings such as socks or leggings, or used with other apparel. Specialized footbeds can also be employed with footwear chimneys to evacuate hot, moist air away from the underside of the foot and towards the chimneys.

A constant or controlled temperature microclimate protective system capable of providing either cooling or heating. Such a system may be used alone or in combination with protective armor without degrading the force impact integrity of the protective system. When used alone, the microclimate system of the present invention may be constructed into a garment configuration for personal use or a sleeve-type configuration for use with one or more electronic devices. When used in combination, the microclimate system may be integrally incorporated into a protective armor system, releasably attached or held within the protective armor system by means including but not limited to a pocket or pouch, or worn as a separate element underneath a protective armor system. The microclimate system may comprise a plurality of cells containing phase change material providing one or more transition temperature points while further assisting in impact shock attenuation.

A system for adjusting the microclimate of a bed environment, the system comprising a multi-zone mattress-style support including a plurality of individual heating zones, means for heating the individual heating zones, means for cooling the multi-zone mattress-style support, and a plurality of temperature sensors, wherein the means for cooling the multi-zone mattress-style support comprises at least one air duct within the multi-zone mattress-style support for transporting ambient air through the multi-zone mattress-style support, as well as a method for adjusting the microclimate of a bed environment.

A method and system for temperature control of a microclimate device are disclosed. The temperature control can be integrated into a reservation system for the microclimate device. A user interface can receive a user input of a temperature control setting. The user interface can be integrated into the microclimate device. A processor can receive the user input and control a heating and/or cooling device to execute the temperature control setting.

The invention discloses an expressway microclimate traffic early warning method based on a fuzzy neural network. The expressway microclimate traffic early warning method comprises the following steps of distributing traffic flow and microclimate monitoring points; defining a traffic controller of the fuzzy neural network; training the traffic controller of the fuzzy neural network; using the optimal traffic controller of the fuzzy neural network to generate traffic safety travelling parameters; and issuing traffic control information. The expressway microclimate traffic early warning method uses the fuzzy neural network and issues vehicle operating limiting-velocity value, distance limiting value and overtaking limitation and lane changing limitation measures through comprehensive detection of meteorological parameters such as precipitation, snow quantity, temperature and visibility along the line of an expressway. The method is used in the expressway to improve travelling safety under severe weather conditions.

The invention discloses a Ferris wheel type farm, which aims to solve food crisis caused by danger of over population, shortage of farmland, land abandoning, agricultural pollution, weather change and logistics dilemma. The Ferris wheel type farm is characterized in that the Ferris wheel type farm is a greenhouse facility which is arranged on a vertical surface and capable of moving circularly, comprises Ferris wheels, a sail transmission system, a water circulation system, a microclimate planting chambers, movable planting racks, a wind and solar hybrid power generating system, point-of-sale terminals and organism recirculation devices.

The invention discloses an urban intelligent high pole street lamp spraying system.The urban intelligent high pole street lamp spraying system comprises a high pole street lamp, a spraying atomization device, a water supply pipeline system and an automatic control system.The spraying atomization device is used for producing atomized water and comprises at least one spray nozzles arranged on the upper portion of the high pole street lamp; the water supply pipeline system comprises a vertical water supply pipe, an underground water supply pipe and a water inlet pipe network; the automatic control system comprises a display device, a controller, a first signal input module, a second signal input module, a third signal input module and a pressure sensor set.The intelligent high pole street lamp spraying system is simple in principle structure, low in construction cost and high in automation degree.Corresponding spraying equipment is additionally installed on an existing urban street lamp to spray atomized water to urban roads, floating diffusion of particulate matter in air is effectively restrained, urban microclimate is improved, and the air quality is improved.Meanwhile, water sprays are mixed in the air, people feel cool and comfortable, the urban temperature can be decreased within a small range, and the urban heat island effect is relieved.