865 results about "Smart transducer" patented technology

System determines integrity of a product through shipment and has: (a) plurality of identical smart sensors for direct attachment to different locations on the product and (b) interrogating device, the identical smart sensors monitoring like environmental condition of the product during shipment and wirelessly communicating data about the environmental condition to the interrogating device during or after shipment, the interrogating device communicating the environmental condition over a network, wherein the identical smart sensors comprise an accelerometer and the environmental condition comprises acceleration. Method establishes product integrity after shipment from first location to second location by: attaching plurality of identical smart sensors directly to product at first location; monitoring environmental condition of product via the identical smart sensors during shipment; wirelessly communicating the environmental condition from the identical smart sensors to receiver at the second location; and communicating the environmental condition from the receiver to a third location.

An intelligent lighting system employs energy efficient outdoor lighting and intelligent sensor technology in cooperation with video analytics processing. The lighting system selectively illuminates outdoor spaces and identifies and evaluates events in a scene monitored by a video camera, thereby to facilitate proactive and appropriate security responses to those events. Selective use of advanced lighting fixtures may significantly reduce costs of lighting areas that are monitored by security systems such as streets, public parks, and parking lots, while simultaneously improving security, safety, and traffic control. Energy savings alone, for a properly designed system, are estimated at 50%-90% of current usage. When combined with remote monitoring, such systems may prevent accidents and criminal activity.

A sensor system that provides an adjustable threshold level for the sensed quantity is described. The adjustable threshold allows the sensor to adjust to ambient conditions, aging of components, and other operational variations while still providing a relatively sensitive detection capability for hazardous conditions. The adjustable threshold sensor can operate for extended periods without maintenance or recalibration. In one embodiment, the sensor is self-calibrating and runs through a calibration sequence at startup or at periodic intervals. In one embodiment, the adjustable threshold sensor is used in an intelligent sensor system that includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with the sensor units. When one or more of the sensor units detects an anomalous condition (e.g., smoke, fire, water, etc.) the sensor unit communicates with the base unit and provides data regarding the anomalous condition. The base unit can contact a supervisor or other responsible person by a plurality of techniques, such as, telephone, pager, cellular telephone, Internet (and / or local area network), etc. In one embodiment, one or more wireless repeaters are used between the sensor units and the base unit to extend the range of the system and to allow the base unit to communicate with a larger number of sensors.

The invention provides a smart sensor in the form of an adhesive bandage. The sensor may be used in many applications such as within sports, the shipping industry and medical and health industries. The sensor sticks to people and objects and wirelessly communicates with remote receivers. Internal detectors sense conditions associated with movement and / or the environment of the sensor. In one example, an accelerometer detects impact and drop distance of a package in transit; the sensor is either within a label or attached to a product within the package. The sensor may also prevent theft and assist in tracking package disposition so as to reduce lost packages. The sensors of the invention may also be used in fitness and health, such as to monitor body functions of heart rate and respiration; these sensors also may initiate immediate wireless warnings for improper functions so that persons may obtain immediate assistance. Sensors of the invention are also useful for sports media broadcasts; multiple sensors may attach to athletes so that wireless performance data is made available, in near real time, to audiences and media observers. Data from sensors of the invention may also change the computer gaming community; that is, certain sensors tracking real performance data may relay information used within gaming so as to govern computer gaming motions. Typically, sensors of the invention communicate by an RF transmitter or transceiver. Groups of sensors may be combined within a common canister that imparts date and time information and “power on” when dispensed.

A moisture sensor system is described. In one embodiment, the system provides an adjustable threshold level for the sensed moisture level. The adjustable threshold allows the moisture sensor to adjust to ambient conditions, aging of components, and other operational variations while still providing a relatively sensitive detection capability. In one embodiment, the adjustable threshold moisture sensor is used in an intelligent sensor system that includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with the moisture sensor units. When one or more of the moisture sensor units detects a excess moisture the moisture sensor unit communicates with the base unit and provides data regarding the moisture condition. The base unit can contact a supervisor or other responsible person by a plurality of techniques, such as, telephone, pager, cellular telephone, Internet (and / or local area network), etc. In one embodiment, one or more wireless repeaters are used between the moisture sensor units and the base unit to extend the range of the system and to allow the base unit to communicate with a larger number of sensors.

Embodiments include a system providing sensor feedback for property condition monitoring, including: a plurality of sensors disposed in a roof structure of a property; the plurality of sensors providing output indicative of ice formation associated with the roof structure; a hub device that receives output from the plurality of sensors, the hub device detecting at least one sensor output indicative of ice formation and providing a notification regarding the ice formation; a computing device of an insurance carrier that receives the notification, the computing device updating a status of the property in an insurance carrier database in response to the notification; and a communication link between the plurality of sensors, the hub device and the computing device of an insurance carrier. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Smart sensors are employed to determine one or more of drug identification, dose, flow rate, concentration, agglomeration, and degradation and / or other characteristics of drug administration that can be detected via sensing technology. A smart sensor(s) can be coupled to or retrofitted onto injection pen injectors and / or drug delivery cartridges and / or infusion sets or cannulae, enabling infusion sets, pen injector systems or drug delivery cartridges to improve tracking of drug self-administration and stop medication errors that occur primarily through self or automated injection (e.g., due to incorrect or incomplete dosing, excessive dose or rate, incorrect drug, or drug degradation).

A low cost, robust, wireless sensor system that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The system includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with a large number of sensors. When one or more of the sensors detects an anomalous condition (e.g., smoke, fire, water, etc.) the sensor communicates with the base unit and provides data regarding the anomalous condition. The base unit can contact a supervisor or other responsible person by a plurality of techniques, such as, telephone, pager, cellular telephone, Internet, etc. In one embodiment, one or more wireless repeaters are used between the sensors and the base unit to extend the range of the system and to allow the base unit to communicate with a larger number of sensors. In one embodiment, each sensor is labeled according to its intended location, and system configuration data containing the sensor identification codes and corresponding sensor locations is provided to the user.

Building-integrated photovoltaic devices can be provided, which function as sensors, wherein the output parameters from the device are used to provide information about light intensity and ambient temperature, in addition to providing power, to an intelligent building energy management system.

A low cost, robust, wireless sensor system that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The system includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with a large number of sensors. When one or more of the sensors detects an anomalous condition (e.g., smoke, fire, water, etc.) the sensor communicates with the base unit and provides data regarding the anomalous condition. The base unit can contact a supervisor or other responsible person by a plurality of techniques, such as, telephone, pager, cellular telephone, Internet, etc. In one embodiment, one or more wireless repeaters are used between the sensors and the base unit to extend the range of the system and to allow the base unit to communicate with a larger number of sensors.

Embodiments of the present disclosure is directed to the use of spatially diverse multiple antenna structures and associated radio transmitters and receivers in a sensor for accurate proximity detection. In a retail environment, a system based on a network of such (smart) sensors can accurately detect presence and location of a shopper's wireless mobile device as the shopper moves along the shopping aisles carrying the wireless mobile device (e.g. smartphone). Based on the location of the shopper and the duration of the shopper stopping in front of a product shelf in an aisle, embodiments can engage the shopper (through the wireless mobile device) in transaction-oriented interactions using the ‘sense, analyze, and connect’ capability of the various embodiments described herein. Such interactions result in increased revenue for the retailers as well as better understanding of the shopping behavior of the retail shoppers. Such understanding can be embodied in improved analytics.

The invention is suitable for the field of unmanned planes and provides an unmanned plane panorama video-based virtual reality live broadcast system which comprises an unmanned plane, a mobility control terminal, a VR live broadcast cloud server, an immersion type visualization device, a VR processor and a panorama video camera. In a preferred solution, the unmanned plane panorama video-based virtual reality live broadcast system also comprises various kinds of wearable intelligent sensors that can be worn on all parts of a user. According to the virtual reality live broadcast system, VR live broadcast of an unmanned plane panorama video can be realized via three experience modes; specifically, the motional tendency of a user body can be felt via the wearable intelligent sensors and then can be converted into corresponding unmanned plane flight control instructions, the unmanned plane flight control instructions are sent to the mobility control terminal via the VR live broadcast cloud server, the control instructions are sent to the unmanned plane via the mobility control terminal, the unmanned plane synchronously performs flying motions after receiving the control instructions, a virtual operation user is embedded into the panorama video captured by the panorama video camera, then the panorama video is sent in real time to the immersion type visualization device in a reverse direction, and therefore VR interactive live broadcast effects can be realized.

The invention provides a plurality of individually addressable radio frequency (RF) modules, any of which can be installed with any electrical device such as an ambient condition sensor or an ambient condition modifier. A prime example would be a light fixture, whether with or without a dimmable light source efficient dimming and integrated smart sensor networking related to the lighting system itself or to other systems such as parking monitors, fire alarm monitors or security alarm monitors. Independent control processing in each lighting fixture or electrical device allows a multiplicity of sensors to be locally employed and their data to control local conditions or communicate to adjoining fixtures and electrical devices and thereby control larger portions of the lighting system network or network to several unrelated systems.

The present invention relates to a smart agriculture monitoring system based on a Web of Things. The system includes a CPU, connected with a smart sensor, a smart adjusting and controlling device, a real-time image and video monitoring apparatus, a transmission apparatus, an alarm system and a terminal; the CPU is connected with the smart sensor, the smart adjusting and controlling device, the real-time image and video monitoring apparatus, the transmission apparatus, the alarm system and the terminal via the wireless network controlling system; and the smart agriculture monitoring system is powered via a solar energy powering apparatus. The Web of Things agriculture smart detection and control system can greatly increase manufacturing and managing efficiency, save manpower, and can conveniently provide a strong scientific data theoretical support to aspects such as various agricultural fields or researches; and the important function thereof is obvious in the highly automated and intelligentized society.

A device API Abstraction layer is provided that is configured to operate as an interface between one or more applications operating on a device and an operating platform of the device. The device API abstraction layer comprises a universal set of APIs that enables the applications to execute irrespective of the operating system and software platform of the host device.

An intelligent sensor device and a method for controlling an intelligent sensor device are provided. In one example, the sensor device includes a memory; a radio frequency communicator configured to receive signals from and transmit signals to an external device having an external application; a radio frequency controller configured to control the radio frequency communicator; a processor; a process controller configured to instruct the processor to load one or more scripts into the memory; one or more sensors; and a sensor driver controller configured to activate one or more appropriate sensors based on a request received from the external application, wherein the process controller is further configured to instruct the processor to execute an appropriate script based on the request received from the external application.

The invention provides an on-board track traffic passenger flow transport capability and a running safety intelligent monitoring and pre-warning system, which is characterized in that the system comprises at least one or one group of vehicle running state gaining intelligent sensing device(s) in a passenger flow transport capability / scene image sensor, a mechanical vibration / noise sensor, a wheel track state and vehicle chassis image sensor and a road condition image information intelligent sensor, at least a set of train monitoring and pre-warning controllers which can carry out the network assembly of the vehicle running state gaining intelligent sensing devices, carry out information communication with all vehicle running state gaining intelligent sensing devices, carry out data memory and data integration, analysis and processing, achieve system function arrangement, operation, pre-warning and control and carry out information communication with earthwork equipments; all intelligent sensing devices and the train monitoring and pre-warning controllers are connected with each other by communication buses which are matched with each other. The system of the invention has the advantages of multi-function, high intelligent informatization level, high performance / price ratio, high reliability, etc., is easy to be expended and can be applied under all-weather meteorologic conditions.

A system and method for interfacing with sensors using an open architecture and standards based approach is provided. A sensor controller located on each container and any variety of one or more sensors are equipped with complementary short range wireless communications devices. The sensor may adhere to a predefined interface specification such that it may be automatically commissioned into, and operation in conjunction with the sensor controller and the container security system.

The invention discloses an intelligent bag. The intelligent bag comprises a portable bag, a power source, an intelligent sensor, a network layer, a microprocessor, a man-machine interaction apparatus and an application layer. The intelligent bag is reasonably and effectively integrated with a series of technologies such as navigation positioning, block chains, electronic sensing, data networks, artificial intelligence, distributed calculation, automatic control, machine identification, mobile computation, man-machine interaction and the like and is embedded into a portable terminal so as to improve trip experience of people. An intelligent bag user, as a manager, a supervisor and a user of a peer-to-peer network system in a wireless Ad-hoc network, can perform self-disposition, self-maintenance, self-learning and self-production so that a decentralized self-growing trip database can be constructed. Hopefully, the intelligent bag can be a terminal member of the internet of things of an intelligent city traffic system.

A structural health monitoring system comprising intelligent sensors, wherein the intelligent sensors are individually programmable and can be tuned to listen to specific frequencies based on a scaling factor based on the sensor's location in the system being monitored, a set of pre-known frequencies based on the sensor's location in the system being monitored, and the output of a central frequency-based system sensor.

A low cost, robust, wireless sensor system that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The system includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with a large number of sensors. When one or more of the sensors detects an anomalous condition (e.g., smoke, fire, water, etc.) the sensor communicates with the base unit and provides data regarding the anomalous condition. The base unit can contact a supervisor or other responsible person by a plurality of techniques, such as, telephone, pager, cellular telephone, Internet, etc. In one embodiment, one or more wireless repeaters are used between the sensors and the base unit to extend the range of the system and to allow the base unit to communicate with a larger number of sensors.

An embodiment of the invention provides an intelligentized digital grain depot monitoring system which comprises a hardware equipment unit, an intelligent sensor integrated terminal and a grain depot integrated management platform. The intelligent sensor integrated terminal is used for message-processing prior to converting business data, in different message formats, reported by the hardware equipment unit, into business data in an uniform message protocol format through the heterogeneous integration technology and forming data with business characteristics through processing, and the grain depot integrated management platform is used for performing storage capacity monitoring, fumigating control, ventilation control, temperature-humidity monitoring and / or gas concentration monitoring in a grain depot according to the data with the business characteristics and a set control algorithm. By linkage of a temperature-humidity monitoring module, a ventilation control module and the storage capacity monitoring module, startup control on ventilation work and fumigating work can be realized, and current storage capacity can be automatically calculated by the system, so that storage capacity calculation precision is greatly improved.

The invention discloses an internet of things-based intelligent building monitoring managing system, which mainly realizes remote monitoring and managing on an intelligent building. The system comprises four parts of a building equipment managing system, a firefighting linkage alarm system, a positioning navigation system and a security system; the building equipment managing system realizes concentrated managing on building equipment based on a tree cluster network established by an intelligent sensor module; the firefighting linkage alarm system adopts an optimized A*algorithm to search for an optimal fire escape path; the positioning navigation system is achieved by a mobile navigation robot covering floors of the building, and if a user inputs a destination, the navigation robot directly inserts virtual scene information into a reality scene, and displays a direction mark; the security system is realized by a mobile patrolling robot based on a GPS / DR combined navigation technology, and an intruder is alarmed after being found, the current intelligentized managing requirements of the building are met and the system is suitable for a high-rise building such as a commercial building with a large scale.

An interface is provided that configures itself dynamically based on sensor information received from a sensor assembly or actuator information received from an actuator assembly. The interface may be configured to interoperate with sensor assemblies including analog transducers, smart transducers providing digital outputs and various actuators. The sensor information or the actuator information may include information for managing power consumption associated with the operation of the sensor or the actuator. Using the sensor information or the actuator information, a power management scheme may be implemented to reduce power consumption and extend the operational time of a module. The sensor information also includes information about the sensor signal generated by the sensor. The information about the sensor signal allows the module to interoperate with more diverse types of sensors.

The invention relates to a wireless intelligent sensor network system for monitoring states of intelligent substation devices. The system is overall divided into a transformer substation level state monitoring system and a dispatching center level state monitoring system, the transformer substation level state monitoring system is divided into a sensing layer, an accessing layer and an application layer, an intelligent sensor on the sensing layer is responsible for collecting image and scalar data, and transmitting information to a monitoring center platform on the application layer through the accessing layer, and key information is transmitted to a dispatching center monitor integration platform through an electric power data communication network. A self-organization and self-recovery wireless substation device monitoring network is established to replace traditional wired ways, so that hierarchical distribution co-processing of data is achieved, communication load balancing capacity of the monitoring network is improved, wiring difficulties of installation are reduced, installation costs of transformation and upgrade of the substation devices are reduced, flexibility and use ratio of the monitoring network system are enhanced, overall assessment of operation conditions of the substation devices is enhanced, and fault hidden dangers of the devices can be timely found and eliminated.

A well data monitoring system which enables annulus pressure and other well parameters to be monitored in the outer annuli of the well casing program without adding any pressure containing penetrations to the well system. This non-intrusive approach to monitoring pressure and other well parameters in the annuli preserves the pressure integrity of the well and maximizes the safety of the well. In the preferred embodiment an intelligent sensor interrogation system which can be located externally or internally of the pressure containing housing of the wellhead is capable of interrogating and receiving data signals from intelligent well data sensors which are exposed to well parameters within the various annuli of the well and wellhead program.