2683 results about "Operational costs" patented technology

A virtual pooled account is used in operating a system having multiple financial partners. In a specific implementation, the system is a mobile banking system. Instead of maintaining separate general ledgers for each financial institution, the system will keep one general virtual pooled account. This will reduce the settlement and operational costs of the system. The owner of the virtual pooled account will receive the float on the virtual pooled account, and this float will be distributed to the multiple financial partners according to a formula.

A system and method is disclosed for increasing the efficiency of a cellular communication network, reduce ongoing operating costs and increase revenue. According to one aspect, a method is disclosed for increasing the efficiency of a cellular communication network whereby network capacity in the radio access network (RAN) and baseband processing for wireless connections are dynamically adjusted to automatically provision sufficient bandwidth and baseband processing capacity in response to changes in the network. The method is further extended by implementing policy management which allows wireless carriers to develop and implement network based policies to automatically increase or decrease the amount of processing resources and network bandwidth required from any cell site, hub or mobile switching office. According to another aspect, network efficiency is enhanced by utilizing a novel cellular network infrastructure. RF signals from cell site antennas of various technology types are demodulated, digital bit information is extracted from the RF signals, processed, and groomed into Gigabit Ethernet/Resilient Packet Ring (GigE/RPR) or Ethernet over copper traffic flows using specific Quality of Service (QoS) priorities. The GigE/RPR traffic flows are routed to hub sites or mobile switching offices, at which point the packetized information is extracted and converted to RF signals that are equivalent to the signals that were received at the antenna. The RF signals are sent over coaxial cable to a network hub including a pool of Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs) (or Node Bs). The hub is coupled to one or more mobile switching offices via a second fiber optic ring.

A method of remote plasma cleaning a processing chamber of CVD equipment, which has high cleaning rates, low cleaning operational cost and high efficiency, is provided. The method comprises supplying cleaning gas to the remote plasma-discharge device; activating the cleaning gas inside the remote plasma-discharge device; and bringing the activated cleaning gas into the processing chamber and which is characterized in that a mixed gas of F₂ gas and an inert gas are used as the cleaning gas. A concentration of the F₂ gas is 10% or higher. The F₂ gas, which is a cleaning gas, is supplied to the remote plasma-discharge device from an F₂ gas cylinder by diluting F₂ gas at a given concentration by an inert gas.

The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having one or more motorized pumps and associated motor drives, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation.

The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having computer-controlled equipment, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation over a time horizon.

The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having computer-controlled equipment, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation over a time horizon.

The invention provides control systems and methodologies for controlling a process having computer-controlled equipment, which provide for optimized process performance according to one or more performance criteria, such as efficiency, component life expectancy, safety, emissions, noise, vibration, operational cost, or the like. More particularly, the subject invention provides for employing machine diagnostic and/or prognostic information in connection with optimizing an overall business operation over a time horizon.

An advanced internal combustion-electric hybrid airplane, having at least double the flight range and flight duration than a conventional equivalent airplane, while using the same amount of any desirable fuel. This is achieved by using 2-3× smaller and ultra-lightweight engine for cruising, and ultra-lightweight electric motor powered by lithium batteries during take-off and climbing. The electric motor becomes a generator during cruising and descent, recharging said batteries. The airplane has also temporary silent electric stealth capability and added safety by the electric back-up power. Due to its high efficiency, the operational cost is substantially reduced. Additional features include highly advanced, minimum drag and weight airframe.

An ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio access system for cellular communications systems using time division duplex as a way of maximizing the bits/hz/km2 for cellular systems. The network architecture of the ad-hoc system allows the radio access to be integrated with the fixed components of a conventional cellular system, PSTN or ISP. The objective is to make the system of the invention transparent to the features and services provided by the external network. The advantages of such a system to a cellular operator are that significantly less infrastructure is required, and that the RF spectrum is more efficiently utilized resulting in much lower building and operating costs. The system architecture is comprised of remote terminals, routers, gateways, and at least one gateway controller that interfaces the ad-hoc system to a cellular network system. The ad-hoc system of the invention allows for both voice and data transmissions and receptions.

A system and method of automatically replacing the geographic location of geo-fences stored in memory of a telematics system is described. The location of an asset is determined using an on-board telematics device with a location device. The location of the asset is compared with the location of predefined geo-fences stored in memory on the asset. When the asset is located within a geo-fence which triggers the replacement of geo-fences, the telematics system causes the asset to receive a new set of geo-fences, which replace the existing set of geo-fences in the telematics system memory. The operational cost of the system is reduced by minimizing communications charges when a reduced number of transmissions is needed to replace geo-fences stored in memory on the asset.

The disclosed I-CBTC mobile closed train operation control system applies wireless communication way to transmit information between ground control center and train, and comprises an ATS or CTC system, a DSU system, a CI system, a ZC or RBC system, a VOBC system, a dual-ring redundant backbone network COM_network system, a ground-train redundant wireless network DCS system, and interfaces among nodes. This invention normalizes and standardizes former function, performance index and interfaces, and reduces cost greatly.

The invention discloses turbine fracturing equipment. The turbine fracturing equipment comprises a transporting device, a turbine engine, a reduction gearbox, a transmission mechanism and a fracturingpump, wherein the output end of the turbine engine is connected with one end of the reduction gearbox; the other end of the reduction gearbox is in transmission connection with the fracturing pump; the transportation device is used for bearing the turbine engine, the reduction gearbox, the transmission mechanism and the fracturing pump and comprises a chassis; the chassis is provided with a transporting section, a bearing section and a lapping section which are connected in sequence; when the turbine fracturing equipment is in a working state, the bearing section can be contacted with the ground; and when the turbine fracturing equipment is in a transporting state, the bearing section does not make contact with the ground. The turbine fracturing equipment has the beneficial effects that the equipment adopts the design of linear connection and a special chassis, so that the gravity center of the turbine fracturing equipment is doubly reduced, and the stability and the safety are well ensured; the structure is simpler, and the investment cost and the operation cost are reduced; the collapse risk of the whole fracturing site is reduced; and the turbine fracturing equipment is good intransmission property and is suitable for long-time and bulky load continuous operation conditions.

The invention discloses a disaster recovery cloud storage system construction method based on a block chain technology. The block chain technology is introduced in a cloud storage system construction process. The characteristics of decentration and de-trust of the block chain technology are used to realize the distribution autonomy of storage nodes in a cloud storage system and data exchange and data sharing between the storage nodes based on a consensus algorithm. Compared with the current mainstream centralized cloud service system, the method has the advantages that network nodes can establish many-to-many rather than one-to-many contact relationship, which can greatly improve the transmission efficiency of data; and in the processes of data storage, exchange, upload and download, data block packaging and anonymous exchange and an asymmetric encryption algorithm are used, which greatly guarantees the safety and reliability of the entire ecological chain of data cloud storage. Compared with the current mainstream centralized cloud service system, the method provided by the invention has the advantages that on the basis of improved data safety, the operation efficiency of the system is greatly improved, and the operating cost of a cloud storage service is reduced.

The present invention includes a method and system for dynamically controlling cooling resources in a data center based on the workload of the data center. Accordingly, based on the workload constraints (power consumed, latency, etc.) of the data center, each of a plurality of different types of cooling resources is activated in an optimal fashion. Consequently, a substantial savings in operational costs related to cooling resources is achieved. A first aspect of the present invention is a method for dynamically controlling cooling resources in a data center. The method comprises determining a workload within the data center, determining an amount of heat being generated as a function of the workload and activating each of a plurality of different types of cooling resources within the data center in an optimal fashion based on the amount of heat being generated.

The invention discloses an information detection bionic spiral robot in a grain bin; the robot comprises the following structures: a housing; at least three spiral propellers, each propeller comprises a grain inlet and a grain outlet, can rotate to suck in the grains from the grain inlet and discharge the grains through the grain outlet, so the spiral propeller can advance in the grain bin; a sensor unit arranged outside the housing and used for detecting ecology information of the grains in the grain bin. The spiral propeller comprises the following elements: a hollow transmission shaft with two opening ends, and the transmission shaft can rotate relative to the housing; a spiral body arranged in the transmission shaft; a drive motor driving the transmission shaft to rotate through a pair of meshing gear wheels. The robot can obtain real time information of the grain condition in a remote mode, so no temperature measuring cable is needed in the grain bin, thus reducing grain bin labor and material operation cost, and fundamentally solving the problems that wiring in the grain bin is hard, and the temperature measuring cable can disturb grain incoming and outgoing works.

Receiving a connection establishment request message sent by a user equipment; establishing a signaling connection with the user equipment according to the connection establishment request message; and transmitting a user plane IP data packet through the signaling connection. After a signaling connection is established between a UE in an idle state and a mobility management device, an uplink user plane IP data packet or a downlink user plane IP data packet, is directly transmitted between the UE and the network side through the signaling connection, with no need to specifically establish (recover) an RAB between the UE and an S-GW, which can save the signaling overhead, thus reducing the network load and lowering the operating cost of an operator.

The invention relates to a nuclear power plant working robot and a control system thereof, which belong to the fields of robots and automation equipment. The nuclear power plant working robot is a crawler-type mobile manipulator and is composed of a mobile platform driven by double crawlers and a four freedom degree manipulator carried on the mobile platform. The nuclear power plant working robot can move inside a nuclear power plant, has two control modes of manual remote control and autonomous control, and is remotely controlled by a wireless or wired mode. The control system of the nuclear power plant working robot includes a host monitoring and planning control system and a robot control system which are matched to control the operation of the robot. The robot operates autonomously, is safe and reliable, can complete certain dangerous tasks in high radioactivity environment; the robot has small size, stable performance, great maneuverability and low operation cost; a crawler-type chassis has strong gripping force as well as certain climbing and obstacle clearing ability, and is suitable to walking over complex terrains; and the robot has high intelligence degree and can realize autonomous control and manual remote control.

A system for renting vehicles is disclosed. The system can comprise a vehicle access communicator (“VAC”) capable of interfacing with one or more functions of a rental vehicle and a user provided portable electronic device. The VAC can control various functions of the vehicle including, but not limited to, the door locks and/or enabling/disabling the vehicle. The VAC can also monitor various functions of the vehicle including, but not limited to, the fuel level and/or the odometer readings. The VAC can connect to the portable electronic device using a suitable connection method to access additional functionality such as, for example and not limitation, locations services, cellular, and/or internet access. The VAC and the portable electronic device can be used to provide a rental system with reduced infrastructure and operating costs. The system can enable the use of “Green Zones” to provide permanent or temporary vehicle rental areas.

An energy-saving method for the base station includes: determining a base station redundancy device; stopping allocating new service to the base station redundancy device; performing the discharging or dormancy process to the base station redundancy device when it does not carry any service any more. And, accordingly, the embodiments of the present invention also disclose an energy-saving apparatus for the base station. The Energy-saving method and apparatus for the base station provided by the invention launch on from the root of energy consumption for the base station, reduce the power energy waste of the base station by performing the discharging or dormancy process to the base station redundancy device without increasing the cost of the base station manufacture, achieve the aim of saving energy for the base station, and save on the operation cost. The invention also provides an energy-saving apparatus for the base station.