11166 results about "Smart control" patented technology

A method for controlling energy consumption within a building includes providing at least one environment sensing device and at least one energy consumption sensing device associated with the building. Current data is collected from the environment sensing device and the energy consumption sensing device along with associated time-of-day data. A value of a future energy consumption parameter is predicted based upon the collected current data, the associated time-of-day data, and historic data collected from the environment sensing device and the energy consumption sensing device. A profile of future costs per unit of energy consumption as a function of time is determined. Energy consumption is controlled dependent upon the predicted future energy consumption parameter value and the determined profile of energy consumption costs.

A centralized social network tool is configured to interface with and integrates into one or more videogames and/or videogame series. The social network tool may be integral to the theme of the games and be pervasive within game play. The social network may drive progression of the story and interaction between characters. According to another aspect of the invention, the members of the social network may include actual members (corresponding to real people) and virtual members (e.g., artificial intelligence controlled bot members). The virtual members may be part of the social network and may interact with real members within and outside of the game as part of the theme of the game.

An intelligent controller of electronic cigarette includes a switch module, a voltage acquisition module coupled to a heating wire, a control module coupled to the switch module and the voltage acquisition module, respectively, a display module electrically connected to an output of the control module, and a battery electrically connected to the switch module, the voltage acquisition module, the control module and the display module, respectively. The control module sends a control signal to the voltage acquisition module to make the voltage acquisition module acquire a terminal voltage of the heating wire. After receiving a signal from the switch module, whether the heating wire of an atomizer is in a short-circuit condition, an open-circuit condition or a normal condition is detected based on the acquired signal, and a detection result is output such that these conditions of the heating wire are observed directly by users.

A smart controlling method applied to a smart home system for controlling a number of home appliances which may detect and act upon the approach of a user to the smart home. The smart home system learns the habits of a user from repeated inputs at repeated times by the same user to determine that a control command is a habit. When the user arrives at home or is discovered in proximity to the smart home, the smart home system calls a control command to control a relevant home appliance to execute certain operations. A smart gateway and a smart home system are also provided.

File operations on files in a peripheral system are controlled by an intelligent controller with a file processor. The files are accessed as if the intelligent controller were an addressable virtual storage space. This is accomplished first by communicating controller commands for the intelligent controller through read/write commands addressed to a Command Region of a virtual storage device. The controller commands set up a Mapped Data Region in the virtual storage device for use in controlling data transfer operations to and from the peripheral system. With the Mapped Data Regions set up, blocks of data are transferred between the host and the intelligent controller in response to read/write commands addressed to the Mapped Data Region of the virtual storage device.In an additional feature of the invention file operations are communicated between host and controller through a device driver at the host and a device emulator at the intelligent controller. If the address in the device write/read command is pointing to the Command Region of the virtual storage device, a Command Region process interprets and implements the controller operation required by the controller command embedded in the device write/read command. One of these controller commands causes the Command Region processor to map a requested file to a Mapped Data Region in the virtual storage device. If the address detected by the detecting operation is in a Mapped Data Region, a Mapped Data Region process is called. The Mapped Data Region process reads or writes requested data of a file mapped to the Mapped Data Region addressed by the read/write command. This mapped file read or write is accomplished as a transfer of data over a data path separate from a control path. In an additional feature of the invention, the data transfer between host system and intelligent controller is accomplished by performing a direct memory access transfer of data.

The intelligent console method and apparatus of the present invention includes a powerful, intuitive, yet highly flexible means for accessing a multi-media system having multiple multi-media data types. The present intelligent console provides an interactive display of linked multi-media events based on a user's personal taste. The intelligent console includes a graph/data display that can provide several graphical representations of the events that satisfy user queries. The user can access an event simply by selecting the time of interest on the timeline of the graph/data display. Because the system links together all of the multi-media data types associated with a selected event, the intelligent console synchronizes and displays the multiple media data when a user selects the event. Complex queries can be made using the present intelligent console. The user is alerted to the events satisfying the complex queries and if the user chooses, the corresponding and associated multi-media data is displayed.

Systems and methods for intelligent control of microphones in speech processing applications, which allows the capturing, recording and preprocessing of speech data in the captured audio in a way that optimizes speech decoding accuracy.

The present invention relates to a several wind mills parallelly-connected type wind energy and optical energy complementary water elevation system. Said system includes the following several portions: wind-driven power generator unit, solar cell component, intelligent controller and submersible pump. The described intelligent controller can be used for controlling, managing and tracking said system.

A smart control device is disclosed. The smart control device can be equipped in an electrical appliance, so as to be capable of controlling the electrical appliance by using diverse information that is provided from both the inside and the outside of the electrical appliance. In a smart control device monitoring and scheduling operations of an electrical appliance, the smart control device includes an interface unit configured to receive energy information, a smart controller configured to control energy saving functions of the electrical appliance based upon the energy information received from the interface unit, and an input unit configured to receive an inputted control command respective to the electrical appliance. Herein, the smart controller may be provided in the electrical appliance, and the smart controller may control the electrical appliance so that the electrical appliance can be operated in an energy saving operation mode based upon the received energy information.

A system and method for accessing resources includes first and second data centers located at first and second respective geographic locations. The first center include a first file server and first data storage unit, while the second data center includes a second file server and second data storage unit. In one embodiment, the first data storage unit includes active resources designated for active use, while the second data storage unit includes standby resources designated for standby use in the event that the active resources are not available. A switch fabric and associated intelligent controller communicatively couple the first file server, the first data storage unit, the second file server, and the second data storage unit. The intelligent controller may route information through the switch in multiple different ways deemed appropriate in view of the failure conditions that affect the system.

A combined power supply and driver control module includes rectifier circuitry, switching circuitry, and driver circuitry for providing output power to a load. Rectified output from an input power source is used to produce a DC power. The switching circuitry receives the DC power and modulates the input current drawn from the power source. An intelligent control module includes control circuitry, such as a digital processor, for controlling the switching circuitry. Power factor is improved by modulating the input current to be closer in phase with the voltage of the power source. Also disclosed is a power factor correction circuit in which a digital processor reads waveform values from a lookup table and modulates the input current waveform based on the values. A zero crossing detector connected to the input power source may direct the digital processor when to commence reading values from the lookup table.

A system and method for providing entry-point, boundary-line, and presence intrusion detection by means of an intelligent controller process capable of driving both field alert/alarm systems and security station monitoring devices and for providing occupancy warnings and critical status alerts, one embodiment providing runway occupancy warnings and critical runway status alerts to both flight crew approaching an airfield and air traffic controllers managing ground traffic, the system including: a detection system, airfield output devices (including all FAROS, GAROS and CTAF Runway Occupancy Radio Signals (RORS)), an airfield communications network, a centralized data processing unit that contains all of the algorithms to drive light control, logging, and an optional administrative network layer that hosts a graphical user interface.

The invention includes the car borne intelligent control device and the monitoring management system (center). The car borne intelligent control device consists of the vehicle location unit, the unitfor monitoring vehicles, the mobile display terminal and the emergence process unit. The monitoring manage system is composed of two paths digital mobile communication, two paths telephone lines and one computer server. The information in the vehicle location unit and the monitoring vehicles unit of the car borne intelligent control device is processed by the data processor of the control device.The processed information is displayed on the mobile display terminal and the station is reported automatically by using voice. Also the processed information is sent to the monitoring management center through digital mobile communication network.

The invention relates to a visual computing and prewarning method of deviation angle and distance of an automobile from a lane line. The image processing and computer vision technologies are utilized, and the deviation angle and distance of the automobile from the lane line are computed in real time according to the road surface image acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera, thereby estimating the line crossing time for safety prewarning. The method comprises the following steps: detecting the lane lines of the road surface image to obtain a linear equation of partial lane lines; establishing a three-dimensional coordinate system by using the camera as the initial point, and recording the mounting height and depression angle of the camera; calibrating the focal length according to the lane detection result under the condition of a given deflection angle; computing the deflection angle and vertical distance of the automobile relative to the lane line according to a pinhole camera model; and estimating the deviation time from the lane according to the instantaneous running speed of the automobile, thereby obtaining the safety prewarning or intelligent control information of the running automobile.

Disclosed is an intelligent power grid management system. In a certain area, an area-level minisize intelligent power grid system is established, which uses the common power supply of regenerative resources such as photovoltaic generation and wind power generation and the traditional power grid as the main power supply, the micro-turbine generation as the supplementary power supply, and the storage battery energy storage as the adjusting device; and comprehensively connects the power supply system with the distribution system of the area, the power utilization system of each building user. And then the intelligent power grid system including a generation and energy storage side management system as well as a power utilization side management system is comprehensively managed by utilizing the network communication and the intelligent control as the nerve centre, thus effectively lifting the utilization rate of regenerative resources in the area, raising the reliability of the power supply network of the area, improving the intellectualization degree of the whole power grid of the area, effectively saving energy and improving the power utilization satisfaction of users.

A system includes a first device comprising a housing, a battery disposed within the housing, an intelligent control disposed within the housing, a transceiver disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the intelligent control, and a plurality of sensors operatively connected to the intelligent control. The system further includes a second device comprising a housing, a battery disposed within the housing, an intelligent control disposed within the housing, a transceiver disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the intelligent control, and a plurality of sensors operatively connected to the intelligent control. The first device and the second device provide for balancing load by powering one or more of the biosensors in one of the first device or the second device and shifting functions to the other of the first device and the second device.

A scalable apparatus and a network environment dynamically changes the light transparency of a single SPD device, a small number of SPD devices or thousands of such SPD devices installed in windows in automobiles, aircraft, trains, marine vehicles, residential homes, commercial buildings and skyscrapers. A scalable apparatus and a network environment dynamically changes the light transparency of a single SPD device or thousands of such SPD devices in the presentation of a multi-media special effects display. Textual messages, graphical images and simulated motion effects are driven. Such scalable apparatus being capable of driving and using several operational parameters of SPD materials such as frequency range, AC voltage and temperature so as to provide fine control of SPD characteristics such as switching speed and power consumption.

A smart controlling method applied to a smart home system for controlling a number of home appliances of the smart home system is able to learn the habits of the user in relation to the home appliances, deeming a control operation a habit when a certain controlling command is repeated for more than a predetermined number of times in a predetermined period. When the current certain condition value matches one of the habit certain conditions, the smart home system calls the corresponding habit controlling command to control the relative home appliance to execute the habitual operation. A smart gateway and a smart home system are also provided.

The invention provides a camera-based intelligent lighting control system and a camera-based intelligent lighting control method. An indoor image is shot by a camera and is analyzed, and lighting information needed indoors is determined according to an analytical result, and the lighting control system is configured by utilizing the information to adjust indoor lighting, so that the aim of controlling the lighting intelligently is fulfilled. The required illumination condition is determined by image acquisition and the analysis of video/image contents without manual intervention, and scene modes do not need to be selected artificially, so the real intellectualization of the intelligent lighting control system is realized.

The invention discloses a spiral driving pipeline robot. The spiral driving pipeline robot comprises a robot body and a remote control box which are connected with each other through an cable, the robot body comprises a driving mechanism, a walking mechanism and a control system, the driving mechanism comprises a driving wheel rack, driving wheels are mounted on the driving wheel rack, the walking mechanism comprises a walking body, and guide wheels are disposed on the walking body. According to the spiral driving pipeline robot, a spiral driving mode is utilized, the robot can specially work in an elongated pipeline that people can not reach so as to perform cleaning, detecting, wiring and the like, an artificial intelligence control technology is applied, and thereby, the walking process of the robot in the pipeline is smooth. Besides, the spiral driving pipeline robot is high in driving force and stable in moving speed, walking speed and angles of the robot can be changed with the change of working environment by the aid of remote control so as to be adapted to changeable conditions in the pipeline, and specific implementation of investigation, cleaning and the like in actual application is facilitated.

The invention relates to an intelligent control device of a high power energy saving electromagnetic stove, and the method thereof, The intelligent control device comprises a controllable rectifying and filtering module, a contravariant module and a microcomputer controlling module, which is characterized in that a three-phase alternating current power supply is rectified into an adjustable direct current power supply through the controllable rectifying and filtering module ; the direct current power supply is inverted into a high frequency alternating current power supply through the contravariant module, and then the electric energy is converted into electromagnetic energy to be radiated to the bottom of a cookware, and vortex flow is generated, and the cookware can be heated because of the thermal effect of the vortex flow; the microcomputer controlling module is the core of the entire system, which is used for collecting data and transmitting control information to each module; the device adopts a series of advanced control policies, such as the trigger control of the rectifier bridge of an PI regulator, the intelligent self-adaptive constant power control, the intelligent soft-start control, the intelligent cookware detection control, etc., and thereby the working stability and the security of the electromagnetic stove are enhanced. The harmonic pollution of the equipment to the electric network can be reduced to the utmost extent when the electric energy of the electromagnetic stove is saved, and the electromagnetic stove is suitable for various kitchens and dining rooms.

The invention discloses a digitalized information management system and a method for realizing the same for nursing stations in hospitals. The digitalized information management system comprises nursing station monitoring management equipment, multiple ward field apparatuses and a communication network, and the communication network is used for connecting the ward field apparatuses with the nursing station monitoring management equipment. The digitalized information management system for nursing stations in hospitals integrates functions of general information processing, intelligent patient and bed combination, intelligent video tracking, calling information linkage and remote transfusion monitoring and alarming by the aid of the network communication, intelligent control and data processing and the like and realizes digitalization of general operation and informatization of ward management, and further, medical treatment technical level, medical treatment efficiency and safety in hospital of patients can be improved, meanwhile, resources are reasonably optimized and configured and resource waste is reduced.