157 results about "Requirements management" patented technology

A computer-implemented platform server and method is provided for energy management operations in a Smart Grid environment. The platform server includes an application module configured to operate any of a plurality of Smart Grid Applications. A consumer-side module is configured for bi-directional communication with a plurality of consumer-side intelligent appliances. An Operations Technology (OT) module is configured for communication with an electrical grid Energy Management System (EMS). A translation module is coupled to, and configured to translate data received from, the application, consumer-side, and OT modules, so that the platform is configured to selectively receive, translate, and transmit data from and among any of said application, consumer-side, and OT modules, to facilitate automated energy management operations in a Smart Grid environment.

Energy commodities in the form of electricity and combustible fuel (e.g. natural gas, propane) are used by appliances in a fashion which is monitored and controlled through a Premises Energy Management System (PEMS). The system facilitates direct monitoring and control of energy-consuming appliances, in real time, utilizing automated programmatic control and a plurality of human interfaces including local display and control, email, web browser, text messaging, and integrated voice response (IVR). A Monitoring and Control Coordinator (MCC) provides centralized coordination of functions and one or more Communicating Appliance Interfaces (CAI) interacting with energy consuming appliances are interconnected via wired and wireless communication networks and protocols. The system may retrieve information from third parties, such as weather services, for optimizing energy usage. An interface may be provided to the energy provider / purveyor to enhance the provision of energy by providing additional real-time services such as demand management and service outage management.

Systems and methods for providing incentives for the public to travel during time windows and routes that help alleviate traffic congestion. The systems described herein include at least two components: a computer server software system that includes various algorithms and database sub-systems; and a mobile device application. Generally, a user may enter an origin, destination, and preferred time of travel for an intended trip into the mobile device application, which transmits the information to a remote server. The server computes a route for the trip and provides the user with available incentives for traveling the route at one or more departure time windows. The user's mobile device transmits GPS data to the server, which allows the server to verify whether the user has traveled the route during the specified time window. If so, the server then provides the incentive to the user via the user's mobile device or through email.

The invention is directed to an integrated computerized product lifecycle manager and requirements manager system for associating high-level requirements data with everyday product lifecycle management activities. The system includes a networked database comprised of one or more central computerized data servers, and a plurality of user computers (terminals, workstations) connected to the central server or servers by a computer data network. The server or servers will usually run multiple software modules such as database modules, various product lifecycle management modules, data viewer and decoder modules, and requirements management modules all operating in an integrated manner so that selected portions of the requirements tree, from the top high-level requirements to more detailed low level requirements, can be presented to users in a context relevant manner. The invention additionally includes context management module by which selected portions of the requirements data may be exposed or redacted according to organizational needs.

A system and method are provided for the collaborative charging of electric vehicles. The collaborative charging manages the disbursement of power from a neighborhood transformer so as to increase the efficiency of electric vehicle charging at the residences without significantly altering the existing power distribution and residential infrastructures. Time-flexible loads are shed in order to efficiently allocate energy distribution without compromising the comfort or security of the user. The identities of individual residential power demands can be concealed to protect the user's privacy or made available to further optimize power allocation. The power allocation negotiation may be performed in a residential local demand management client separate from the residential charging station.

Energy commodities in the form of electricity and combustible fuel (e.g. natural gas, propane) are used by appliances within a residence or commercial premises in a fashion which is monitored and controlled through a Premises Energy Management System (PEMS). The system facilitates direct monitoring and control of energy-consuming appliances, in real time, utilizing automated programmatic control and a plurality of human interfaces including local display and control, email, web browser, text messaging, and integrated voice response (IVR). A Monitoring and Control Coordinator (MCC) provides centralized coordination of functions and one or more Communicating Appliance Interfaces (CAI) interact with energy consuming appliances are interconnected via wired and wireless communication networks and protocols. The system may retrieve information from third parties, such as from weather services, for optimizing energy usage. An interface may be provided to the energy provider / purveyor to enhance the provision of energy by providing additional real-time services such as demand management and service outage management.

A system, method and computer program product for requirements management. Particularly, a requirements management scheme performs at least the following functions: 1) it guides a team through the requirements process and provides a structure for collecting “requests”. By using the scheme, team members are prompted to think about and record relevant information that will help clarify and complete requests; and, 2) the scheme allows users to use the attributes throughout the development process to identify risk and make improvements to their process. Many of these attributes can be refined during the development phase or even later. Besides helping team members achieve continuous improvement in their requirements process by providing a set of data and metrics for collection and assessment, the scheme enables an organization to effectively manage their requirements as well as manage changes to those requirements.

Systems and methods for vendor managed inventory (VMI) that include a demand management system that receives customer product usage data and forecasts customer demand for products in accordance with the product usage data. The VMI system also includes an order management system that receives orders from the demand management system and sends the order for fulfillment. A relational database stores customer information for later retrieval and ad hoc querying. An aspect integrator platform is provided for collaboratively presenting the customer information.

The invention discloses a centralization cross-platform automated testing system and a control method thereof. The centralization cross-platform automated testing system comprises a server terminal and at least one test terminal. The server terminal comprises a database server used for storing test data and a test WEB server used for providing objectification drawing dragging, the database server and the test WEB server are connected with the test terminal through a test application server, and the test application server provides an automated testing script based on keywords and is connected with a demand management server to achieve data synchronism. According to the centralization cross-platform automated testing system and the control method thereof, by the adoption of the drive mode based on the keywords, the script and the test data are separated, the objectification drawing dragging operation mode replaces a traditional code writing mode, thus, the centralization cross-platform automated testing system and the control method thereof are adaptive to different scripting languages and test platforms, operation is simple, modification and maintenance are easy, and the repeatable utilization rate of the script is high.

A system and method configured that may allow performing a human-computer verification including crediting a verified task from a first user to a second user. In additional embodiments, may allow the user to perform a computer operation that require human-computer verification based upon an amount of credits that the user has been provided.

The invention provides a commuting traveling characteristic analysis method based on license plate data. The method includes: (1) acquiring detection data of road network intelligent toll-gate devices and urban static information; (2) performing data quality examination on vehicle license plate original data detected by the intelligent toll-gate devices, obtaining effective vehicle license plate data, integrating the effective data according to a time sequence, and analyzing the traveling types of the vehicles; (3) extracting license plate data information of urban commuting vehicles, and constructing traveling chain data of the commuting vehicles; and (4) performing statistics on traveling information of the commuting travelling vehicles, analyzing the resident leisure activity condition, the resident commuting traveling time and distance, and the resident traveling demand, and obtaining a resident traveling rule. According to the method, the commuting traveling characteristics of resident private vehicles are analyzed through data of a lot of license plates, statistics and analysis of the resident traveling demands are realized, support data is supported for a traffic planning model, the traffic demand management level is improved, and the problem of traffic jam is effectively alleviated.

A system and method for tracking and notifying related software, modules, and configuration files during software development and maintenance. A database, software build programming, a software module tracker, requirements management tools, and software source code that includes a comments area are implemented in connection with user interfacing to provide the method.

The present invention discloses a system that provides automated guidance for making architectural decisions when designing information services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Such a system can include a requirements manager, a reusable asset repository, and an asset advisory tool. The requirements manager can be configured to capture non-functional requirements for information services. The reusable asset repository can be configured to store design assets. The design assets can be stored according to a unique data model that associates each design asset with a non-functional requirement. The asset advisory tool can be configured to determine a list of recommended design assets for a user-selected non-functional requirement and document the architectural decision made from the list of recommended design assets.

The invention provides a method for building a software production line platform based on Test Director, Harvest or Subversion, which is characterized in that: by combing the information standards, information flow and information dependency relationship during the process of software research and development; then general defects, modification and configuration management rules (such as flows, tables, fields, roles, authority and protocols) are formulated; unified bases for quality measurement and statistical analysis are established, and a set of measurement models for product quality and process quality is formed. Furthermore, an assistant software research and development synergic management system is also provided for fulfilling support; the operations of service linkage connection, rule mapping and information synchronization are performed for Test Director, Harvest or Subversion. Therefore, the invention has the advantages that: the multi-dimensional data acquisition for demand management, configuration management, alteration management, release management, project management and defect management can be completed, and a software enterprise asset library with a full life cycle is thus formed.

The invention relates to the field of software development process control and discloses a control method of the integrated iteration software development process and a method thereof. The system comprises a database unit, a demand management module, a task management module, a primary code version control module, a test management module, an item management module and a release management module; the control of the project progress is carried out under the uniform iteration development management by the relation among modules, and the software quality is ensured and the project process is controlled. The invention has the advantages that the progress of the whole software development process can be controlled, the quality is ensured and the software which can be developed is easy to expand and maintain; and the difficult problems of the integrated project changing management are solved really, especially the uniform difficult problems which exist through the software life cycle are solved in the process of iteration development management including software requirements, project progress, primary software code, software configuration, software test, software building and software release and maintenance.

A metering apparatus (100) installed to a distribution network of a consumable commodity comprises a plurality of sensors (110) capable of real-time measuring consumption data of the consumable commodity used by a plurality of recipients (120) located in a single building that each sensor (110) is responsible for measuring consumption rate of one recipient (120) of the consumable commodity and the measurement is acquired as analog signal; a processor (130) connected to the plurality of sensors via a signal processing unit (140), which process and convert the analog signal to digital signal, to obtain the measured consumption data for analysis through instructions from one or more software applications; a storage device (150) in communication with the processor for recording information of the analysis and providing the recorded information to the processor upon request; a display unit (160), which is in communication with the storage device (150) and / or the processor (130), shared and accessible by more than one user of the recipients (120) allowing the user to acquire information of the analysis; and an input means (170) receiving input from the user to command the processor (130) to perform task through the one or more software application; wherein the instructions of one or more software applications are used for consumption data recording, signal processing, automated metering, theft detection, demand management or any combination thereof and the common display is able to simultaneously show analysis information and / or reading of the automated metering of at least two recipients. The home users can connect to the processor to view web-based energy consumption data etc. The processor has the software modules to process signals, ID sensor and privacy module to determine “private” and public views.

The invention discloses a knowledge-engineering-based automatic scheme generation and evaluation system. The automatic scheme generation and evaluation system comprises a project management subsystem, a demand management subsystem, a product database subsystem, a collaborative design subsystem and an electronic product design technology platform, wherein the project management subsystem is in charge of providing solving ideas and tools; the demand management subsystem is used for decomposing the product design demand, converting into task indicators and multi-level task sequences, realizing dependence mapping and providing real-time monitoring of the indicators; the product database subsystem is used for managing design data and setting data standards and regulations; the collaborative design subsystem plays the role of a bridge; the electronic product design technology platform is in charge of generalizing and managing typical data, design methods and digital prototype models of all products and pushing information to the collaborative design subsystem. A method comprises the steps of knowledge extraction and classification, professional knowledge base setting, knowledge-engineering-based platform construction and automatic design scheme generation and evaluation. According to the invention, knowledge engineering is introduced into the electronic product design, so that the reuse rate of knowledge and other resources is effectively improved, automatic generation and evaluation of product schemes are realized, the product research and development time is shortened and the intelligence degree is high.

A computer-implemented platform server and method is provided for energy management operations in a Smart Grid environment. The platform server includes an application module configured to operate any of a plurality of Smart Grid Applications. A consumer-side module is configured for bi-directional communication with a plurality of consumer-side intelligent appliances. An Operations Technology (OT) module is configured for communication with an electrical grid Energy Management System (EMS). A translation module is coupled to, and configured to translate data received from, the application, consumer-side, and OT modules, so that the platform is configured to selectively receive, translate, and transmit data from and among any of said application, consumer-side, and OT modules, to facilitate automated energy management operations in a Smart Grid environment.

In order to effectively supply and demand electric power between an electric power supplier and a node or a group of nodes individually having an electric power generator, the present invention provides an electric power supply and demand management system capable of obtaining the difference between the total of electric power supplied from the electric power supplier to the node or group and the total of electric power consumed by the electric power loads of the node or group and capable of transmitting information for increasing / decreasing the amount of electric power supply so that the difference becomes smaller to the electric power supplier.

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for a combined LED driver and emergency backup battery system. The LED driver can include current regulation circuitry as well as a bus enabling charging and discharging of an energy storage device from and to the bus. A master controller can control charging and discharging of the energy storage device via a controller of an energy storage management system, and also communicate with the current regulation circuitry to control a balance of power between an AC mains, the energy storage device, and driving of an LED light source. Accessories may be coupled to the bus and receive low voltage power from the bus and optionally receive commands from the master controller and provide sensed data back to the controller. A wireless network interface to the master controller can enable system states based on electrical power company indications and instructions.

A critical parameter / requirements management process model for managing a development program for a product and an associated product structure-driven critical parameter / requirements management tool and environment is provided. In one embodiment, the process includes a product structure classification scheme, a parameter / requirements classification scheme, a parameter / requirements process and maturity model, and in-process and requirements conformance views. In one embodiment, the tool includes a user interface layer, a business layer, a data layer, and a database. The user interface layer may include a product structure feature group, an add / edit / link feature group, a manage maturity feature group, and a manage conformance feature group. The tool may be implemented as a web server accessible to user workstations operating as thin clients. The tool may be integrated with one or more other product development tools, such as a document-driven requirements management, configuration management, manufacturing / production control system, problem management, and phased product delivery process tools.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a client for realizing plug-in management, wherein, the method for realizing plug-in management comprises the following steps that: a plug-in request message is obtained; application of the requested plug-in is searched; and the application is managed according to the search result. By utilization of the technical proposal provided by the invention, the IM client can manage plug-ins according to user requirements, thereby meeting the demand of user individuation and simultaneously improving the usability of IM software.

The invention discloses a complete software life cycle management method based on DevOps. The method comprises the steps of: collecting and analyzing requirements; performing demand tracking management; performing an automatic project delivery process; and monitoring operation and maintenance analysis and constructing a DevOps platform of a complete software life cycle based on the management method, wherein the platform comprises a demand management module formed by collecting management demands and tracking a development progress, a development delivery module which is composed of project creation, code development management, automatic testing and delivery management, and an operation and maintenance management module which is composed of project state analysis, monitoring and alarm management. According to the method, communication among early-stage demand analysis, development schedule arrangement, software development, automatic testing and operation and maintenance monitoring isenhanced, all-around support for the whole software life cycle is achieved, and the software development efficiency is improved.

The invention provides an intelligent banking enterprise-level demand management system, comprising a keyword library building module, a demand entry module, a fingerprint creation module, an intelligent recognition module and a demand process management and control module. The keyword library building module creates multidimensional keywords according to banking business classification and demandtemplate contents and carries out keyword identification; the demand entry module splits a demand into various detail modules solidified in a demand management system for compiling; the fingerprint creation module creates corresponding fingerprint sequences for each demand list and a demand specification according to demand entries; the intelligent recognition module performs deep learning according to each fingerprint sequence to create a correlation model for subsequent automatic retrieval; the demand process management and control module comprises operations for each phase of a whole lifecycle of each demand, such as automatic recognition, retrieval, monitoring and displaying. The intelligent banking enterprise-level demand management system can provide full-life-cycle intelligent visual management for demand assessment, compiling, reviewing, alteration and the like.

The invention relates to an effect evaluation method of a traffic demand management measures based on identification data of license plates, particularly to an implementation effect evaluation technology for the traffic demand management measures based on the identification data of license plates, which comprises the following steps: analyzing the data mining and effective information extraction from the existing identification data of vehicles in details, extracting traveling routes of vehicles with a shortest route algorithm and fuzzy inference technology in consideration of the basic characteristics of urban transportation, and real-time evaluating the traffic demand management measures in combination with the traffic subzone dynamic partitioning method. By adopting the technology provided by the invention, the effects that the travelling conditions are easily met, the operation method is simple and feasible and the evaluation results are accurate and timely are achieved, and the shortcoming that the evaluation technology in the prior art is difficult in dynamic adjustment of evaluation range and has long data acquisition cycle and poor real-time performance is overcome.

A system and method are provided for the collaborative charging of electric vehicles. The collaborative charging manages the disbursement of power from a neighborhood transformer so as to increase the efficiency of electric vehicle charging at the residences without significantly altering the existing power distribution and residential infrastructures. Time-flexible loads are shed in order to efficiently allocate energy distribution without compromising the comfort or security of the user. The identities of individual residential power demands can be concealed to protect the user's privacy or made available to further optimize power allocation. The power allocation negotiation may be performed in a residential local demand management client separate from the residential charging station.

The invention discloses a modeling and analysis method for joint selection of a travel mode and the departure time, and belongs to the field of urban travel analysis. The method includes the steps of firstly, constructing a model based on the principle of cross-nested logit; secondly, pre-processing a resident travel survey database and urban point of information data and selecting an influence factor variable; thirdly, estimating parameters based on maximum likelihood estimation and evaluating the model; and fourthly, performing emulation using a Monte Carlo method, simulating travel joint selection results under different cases such as congestion pricing, and evaluating the performance of travel demand management measures in reducing peak travel and promoting public transportation. The modeling and analysis method of the invention can be used for analyzing a joint selection behavior of the travel mode and departure time of a commuter and revealing the factors affecting travel behaviors of the commuter, can be applied to help analyze a travel joint selection behavior mechanism of the commuter and know the pattern of travel behaviors from a deeper level, and provides theoretical and technical support for making transportation policies.

An apparatus and a method for analyzing economics of a power demand management business project using a smart power demand resources modeling data simulation module, the apparatus including a cloud computing module for grouping N smart power demand resources modeling data simulation modules according to their positions and IDs through a web application server and connecting the modules to a network, a web application server (WAS) positioned between a cloud computing module and a smart power demand resources modeling data simulation module, and a smart power demand resources modeling data simulation module.

The invention relates to the field of software development process control, and discloses an integrated iteration software development process control system and method. The system comprises a database unit, a demand management module, a task management module, a source code version control module, a testing management module, an item management module and a publishing management module. The system carries out the progress control of a project under the unified iteration development management through the mutual correlation of the modules, guarantees the quality of software, and achieves the control of the process of the project. The beneficial effects of the invention are that the progress of the whole software development process can be controlled; the quality can be guaranteed; developed software is easy to extend and maintain; the system truly overcomes a difficulty of the overall change management of the project, especially the difficulty of unified iteration development management which comprises the software demands, project progress, software source codes, software configuration, software testing, software building, software publishing and process maintaining, wherein the difficulty of unified iteration development management stays in the life cycle of software.

This invention relates to the field of automatic test, specifically relates to an automatic performance test system and method. The system is applied to the automatic test of the performance of a client by simulating a loading condition. The test system comprises a requirement management module for managing and sending a performance requirement, an automatic control module for receiving the performance requirement, deploying a test environment and generating a test task according to the performance requirement, a test control module for retrieving the test task and simulating the loading condition and the test process according to the test task, and a resource management module, wherein the automatic control module starts the resource management module; the resource management module performs the automatic performance test of the client in the test environment according to the loading condition and the test process. The method comprises the following steps: generating and sending the performance requirement; receiving the performance requirement, deploying the test environment and generating the test task according to the performance requirement; retrieving the test task, and simulating the loading condition and the test process according to the test task; and performing the automatic performance test of the client in the test environment according to the loading condition and the test process.