15 results about "Utility network" patented technology

Systems and methods for charging vehicles includes at least one mobile device and a utility network management center (“NMC”). The at least one mobile device is configured as an electronic utility device and includes a network interface card (“NIC”). The at least one mobile device is also associated with a utility billing account and at least one utility commodity meter. The utility NMC is configured to communicate with the at least one mobile device and the at least one utility commodity meter over a network, locate the at least one mobile device, and monitor a state of the at least one utility commodity meter. The utility NMC is also configured to determine a usage of a commodity based on the state of the at least one utility commodity meter and bill the utility billing account associated with the mobile device for the usage of the commodity.

The invention discloses an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle flight path planning method and system. The method comprises the steps of environment perception, multi-source feature fusion attention extraction, path utility network training, exploration reward design, time sequence adaptation reward fusion and unmanned aerial vehicle path planning strategy optimization. The invention belongs to the field of path planning, and particularly relates to an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle flight path planning method and system. According to the scheme, dynamic utility labels are generated, and weights are adaptively adjusted in a task stage; designing an environmental risk factor, actively pre-judging a high-risk area, and keeping a normal weight of a low-risk area; smooth transition of an exploration-target stage is realized; reflecting features of an explored area through neighbor samples, and designing coverage-oriented measure awards to strengthen global coverage orientation; effectiveness attenuation measure rewards are designed, and the collision risk is reduced; global coverage and target guidance are optimized based on time sequence adaptive reward fusion; and the flight path planning effect of the unmanned aerial vehicle is improved.

Techniques for obtaining and processing utility consumption data (e.g., gas, water, electricity, etc.) of a utility network to determine if a violation has occurred with respect to a restriction schedule associated with a service site. By way of example, a number of utility restriction schedules associated with a number of service sites may be generated that indicate, for example, a type of restricted activity and / or event (e.g., irrigation), seasons and / or which days activity is allowed or not allowed, duration activity is allowed, and / or mitigation to take place if a violation is detected. A device (e.g., a smart utility meter, a router, etc.) may monitor utility consumption and detect a particular usage activity (e.g., irrigation) via data disaggregation. The device may compare the activity to the restriction schedule for that particular service site and perform automatic mitigation if a violation is detected.

A method and apparatus for distributing a number of utilities. The number of utilities may be coupled between a number of utility sources and a utility fixture. The number of utilities may be coupled between the utility fixture and a mobile system.

A sensor device, such as a consumption meter, has an LTE modem, a processor system connected with the LTE modem, and a sensor system including at least one sensor configured to sense a physical parameter and generate an output to the processor system accordingly. The sensor device is configured to receive an activation time via the LTE network, where the activation time includes an absolute time and / or an indication of a particular LTE frame number. The processor system is configured to cooperate with the LTE modem to time synchronize to a current LTE frame number. This can be particularly accomplished by the processor system sending a signal on the electrical pin to the LTE modem, in response, the LTE modem outputs the current LTE frame number, and the processor system starts a timer while sending the signal on the electrical pin. Accordingly, by starting a timer at a known LTE frame number, the sensor device can accurately calculate to initiate a predetermined action in synchronization with the absolute time indicated in the received activation time and the specific LTE frame number time. The action may involve performing a measurement using a sensor in the sensor device in time synchronization with the received activation time. This provides high precision time synchronization for a set of sensor devices, allowing the set of sensor devices to perform measurements simultaneously. This enables group measurements that cannot be achieved by the time accuracy of the internal clocks of a group of sensor devices, and this time synchronization may be very important for certain applications, such as acoustic leak detection in a utility network.

The invention relates to an electrolysis system (100) comprising at least two electrolysis devices (1A, 1B), a current supply source (3) having a DC voltage output (7), and a central supply line (5), the central supply line (5) being connected to the DC voltage output (7) of the current supply source (3) such that a DC current can be fed to the central supply line (5) at a first DC voltage (31). The electrolysis devices (1A, 1B) are electrically connected in parallel to the central supply line (5), and wherein a central voltage source converter (13), in particular a modular multilevel converter (13), is connected at a network connection point (35) for supplying a direct current from the utility network (25), which converts an alternating current at the input into a first direct voltage (31) at the output at the direct voltage output (7). In this case, each electrolysis device (1A, 1B) is connected in parallel to the DC voltage output (7) of the voltage source converter (13) via a DC / DC converter (11A, 11B) which converts the first DC voltage (31) into a second DC voltage (33, 33A, 33B), such that the second DC voltage (33A, 33B) drops across the electrolysis device (1A, 1B), each DC / DC converter (11A, 11B) can be controlled and / or adjusted to adaptively adjust the magnitude of the second DC voltage (101, 102) thereof.

The invention discloses a locality protection configuration method for network survivability, belongs to the technical field of urban public service network security, and aims to solve the technical problem that an existing network survivability protection strategy cannot well cope with dynamic and complex attacks / failures to make configuration adjustment. The method comprises the steps that the coupling network edge weight of a first node pair is obtained according to the sensitivity of two nodes in the first node pair to the cost / price change of each other, the degree of each node is counted according to the existing coupling network edge weight, and the number of newly added protection edges of the protection strategy each time is limited. Therefore, a protection edge most worthy of protection is selected according to the degree of each node, and the product of the degrees of the two nodes is used as a protection weight; every time a network attack / cascade fault occurs, a new protection edge is added on the basis of the last protection result according to the rule, and the network survivability protection strategy can have high real-time dynamic performance.

The present invention relates to a system for a utility sharing network between manufacturing industry factories, the system comprising: at least one utility supply facility (100) for supplying at least one fluid; a utility measurement facility (200) for measuring first sensing data of the fluid discharged from the utility supply facility; at least one utility factory (300) for receiving the fluid; a utility factory measurement facility (400) for measuring second sensing data of the fluid supplied to the utility factory; a utility piping network facility (500) for sequentially moving the fluid to the utility supply facility, the utility measurement facility, the utility factory, and the utility factory measurement facility; and a utility network sharing platform (600) comprising a measurement data collection unit (610) for collecting the first sensing data and the second sensing data of the utility measurement facility and the utility factory measurement facility, and a supply facility piping valve control unit (620) for controlling the movement of the fluid by using the utility piping network facility.

Techniques are disclosed for using a distributed ledger with a utility network. The utility network includes a set of utility collectors that are connected to a backhaul network. Each of the set of utility collectors includes a memory configured to store a copy of a distributed ledger. The utility network includes personal area networks (PANs). Each of the set of utility collectors is connected to a corresponding PAN and is configured to act as a PAN coordinator for a corresponding set of utility devices on the corresponding PAN. A utility collector requests to join a distributed ledger system. The utility collector receives an approval indicating that the set of utility collectors approve of the request to join the distributed ledger system and a current state of the distributed ledger. The utility collector instantiates a copy of a distributed ledger based on the current state, thereby joining the distributed ledger system.

The utility model discloses a network switch for indoor office, which relates to the technical field of network switches and comprises a switch body, a supporting seat is arranged on the lower side of the switch body, a wire clamping plate is arranged on one side of the supporting seat, a wire clamping groove is arranged on the wire clamping plate, a wire clamping rubber block is arranged on the inner side of the wire clamping groove, and the wire clamping rubber block is arranged on the inner side of the wire clamping groove. The supporting seat is provided with a fixing hole, and the vertical side surface of the supporting seat, which is in contact with the switch body, is provided with a double-sided adhesive tape. According to the utility model, through the arrangement of the supporting seat, the wire clamping plate, the wire clamping groove and the wire clamping rubber block, after a network cable is inserted into the network cable slot, the network cable is clamped into the wire clamping groove, and the wire clamping rubber block can prevent the network cable from falling off from the wire clamping groove, so that the network cable is effectively arranged.

A method for use in a utility network (100) for generating Lightweight Machine to Machine, LwM2M, commands for implementation by one or more utility metering devices, the method comprising: generating, by a headend system (110), a command for implementation by a utility meter, wherein the utility meter comprises a LwM2M utility meter (114) that implements a LwM2M protocol, and wherein the command generated by the headend system (110) is in a format that is not suitable for execution by the LwM2M utility meter (114); transmitting, by the headend system (110), the command to an adaptor (126); generating, by the adaptor (126) and based on the received command, a plurality of LwM2M commands, each LwM2M command defining one or more LwM2M operations for implementation by the LwM2M utility meter (114) to satisfy the command generated by the headend system (110); executing, by the LwM2M utility meter (114), the plurality of LwM2M commands; and sending, by the adaptor (126) and to the headend system (110), a response to the command generated by the headend system (110), based on the execution of the plurality of LwM2M commands by the LwM2M utility meter (114).

Techniques are disclosed for using a distributed ledger with a utility network. The utility network includes a set of utility collectors that are connected to a backhaul network. Each of the set of utility collectors includes a memory configured to store a copy of a distributed ledger. The utility network includes personal area networks (PANs). Each of the set of utility collectors is connected to a corresponding PAN and is configured to act as a PAN coordinator for a corresponding set of utility devices on the corresponding PAN. A utility collector requests to join a distributed ledger system. The utility collector receives an approval indicating that the set of utility collectors approve of the request to join the distributed ledger system and a current state of the distributed ledger. The utility collector instantiates a copy of a distributed ledger based on the current state, thereby joining the distributed ledger system.

The invention relates to the crossing field of enterprise human resource management and information technology, and specifically discloses a dynamic evaluation and feedback system for employee training effects. The system comprises a behavior sequence modeling module, a dynamic effect evaluation module and an intelligent feedback decision module. The behavior sequence modeling module is used for obtaining the working behavior data after employee training from a business system and generating a quantitative state vector. And the dynamic effect evaluation module constructs a behavior mode evolution trajectory according to the continuous state vectors, and dynamically evaluates the training effect by analyzing the geometric characteristics of the trajectory. And the intelligent feedback decision module generates a personalized intervention instruction through a feedback strategy utility network according to the evaluation result. All the modules are sequentially connected to form a closed loop, and the decision is continuously optimized by utilizing subsequent working behavior data. According to the invention, the continuous evaluation and accurate feedback of the training effect in the conversion process in the actual work are realized.

A system of communicating data to and between a client device in a residence and a utility network is provided. The system includes a proxy controller located at the residence and a first network configured to transmit and receive data between a central controller associated with the utility network and the proxy controller. The system further includes a second network configured to transmit and receive data between the proxy controller and the client device in the residence. The proxy controller is operative to receive data from the client device over the second network, aggregate the received data in a predefined format, store the aggregated data within the proxy controller, and send the aggregated data to a central controller over the first network.

The application discloses an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle flight path planning method and system, and the method comprises environment perception, multi-source feature fusion attention extraction, path utility network training, exploration reward design, time sequence adaptive reward fusion and unmanned aerial vehicle path planning strategy optimization. The application belongs to the field of path planning, and specifically relates to an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle flight path planning method and system. According to the scheme, dynamic utility labels are generated, and the weight is adaptively adjusted in a task phase. An environment risk factor is designed, high-risk areas are actively predicted, and normal weight is kept in low-risk areas. Smooth transition of an exploration-target phase is realized. A near-neighbor sample is used to reflect the features of an explored area, a coverage guidance measure reward is designed to strengthen global coverage guidance, a utility decay measure reward is designed to reduce collision risks, global coverage and target guidance are optimized based on time sequence adaptive reward fusion, and the flight path planning effect of the unmanned aerial vehicle is improved.