Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for vertically utilizing unconventional water source. The system includes a water collection unit, a water treatment unit, and a monitoring, regulation and reuse unit. The water collection unit is configured to collect rainwater and/or domestic wastewater; the water treatment unit is in communication with the water collection unit and configured to purify the rainwater and/or the domestic wastewater collected by the water collection unit; and the monitoring, regulation and reuse unit is in communication with the water treatment unit and configured to use reclaimed water obtained through treatment by the water treatment unit. The method and the system for vertically utilizing unconventional water source in the present disclosure have advantages of a simple structure, low costs, and high treatment efficiency, effectively save energy and water resources, and are suitable for decentralized treatment and recycling of urban domestic wastewater.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for shaping the load of a building for more efficient sizing and/or economics of an energy storage and/or microgrid system. Shaping the load of a building can include identifying a plurality of core hours of a time period increasing a load of the building, a plurality of different increase instances, by interfacing with a BAS and an ESS during the plurality of core hours, and decreasing the load of the building, a plurality of different decrease instances, by interfacing with the BAS and the ESS during the plurality of core hours, wherein each increase instance from the plurality of different increase instances of the load profile is followed by a decrease instance from the plurality of decrease instances of the load profile.

Abstract: A charge management device includes an interface that acquires information related to a schedule of a user, and a control unit that manages a charge schedule of a battery of a mobile body used by the user based on the information related to the schedule of the user. The interface outputs a question about the schedule of the user and acquires an answer to the question from the user. The control unit updates the schedule of the user based on the answer from the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying the quality of patient specific implants are disclosed. A system can generate implant data, such as design files or fabrication instructions, for manufacturing the implant. The system can manage access to the implant data based on authentication levels. Based on the determined authentication level of the user requesting access to the implant data, the system can permit the user to access some or all of the implant data. The system can perform a quality check on a manufactured implant by scanning the manufactured implant to identify any errors in the manufactured implant.

Abstract: A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for restoration time predictions and optimized recovery solutions is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include selecting a dataset based on time series data. Embodiments of the present invention may include building one or more models, wherein the one or more models include a classification and regression tree model, a cross validated decision tree model or a bootstrap aggregating model. Embodiments of the present invention may include selecting a model for predictions using decision trees to reduce a variance of the model. Embodiments of the present invention may include rebuilding the model based on additional data attributes. Embodiments of the present invention may include determining an outage prioritization for each outage node. Embodiments of the present invention may include transmitting results of the outage prioritization.

Abstract: A method may include measuring, by a processor from a load energy meter, energy provided to an energy grid or from the energy grid or a renewable energy source (RES) to a renewable energy power plant; determining, by the processor based on the measuring, a battery energy storage system is not providing enough energy to satisfy energy requirements of a device operating in the renewable energy power plant; identifying, by the processor based on the measuring, an amount of energy that is needed to satisfy the energy requirements of the device in combination with energy provided by a battery energy storage system to the device; and directing, by the processor, the identified amount of energy from the RES to the device.

Abstract: A system to receive data representing agronomic responses based on randomized replicated treatments conducted in test plots of agronomic environments, aggregate the data representing the agronomic responses into subsets of the data representing the agronomic responses, each subset of the data representing the agronomic responses associated with one of a number of performance zones, receive characteristics associated with a portion of a field and determine that the portion of the field represents a particular performance zone of the number of performance zones based on the characteristics associated with the portion of the field, recommend a particularized treatment level for a crop located in the portion of the field based on the particular performance zone, and communicate the particularized treatment level to a machine, the particularized treatment level to be applied to the portion of the field by the machine to optimize an agronomic response based on the particular performance zone.

Abstract: A method for controlling one or more scent delivery units includes maintaining one or more scheduled events, maintaining one or more scheduled anti-events, and generating, based on the one or more scheduled events and the one or more scheduled anti-events, command data to be communicated to the one or more scent delivery units to control their activation and deactivation. Generating the command data includes identifying a conflicting period of time during which control specified by the one or more scheduled events differs from control specified by the one or more scheduled anti-events and also includes generating command data that gives priority to control specified by the one or more scheduled anti-events. Control for the one or more scent delivery units during the conflicting period of time is in accordance with control logic of the one or more scheduled anti-events and not the one or more scheduled events.

Abstract: A water transfer monitoring system includes a meter skid to monitor water flow at a first location along the water transfer line, the meter skid having one or more meter skid sensors to detect and collect data associated with water flow at the first location; a control panel skid configured to receive and implement commands along a water transfer line, the control panel skid having a controller in communication with the one or more meter skid sensors, the controller to implement commands based on data received from the one or more meter skid sensors; the meter skid and the control panel skid are portable and re-usable; and data from the one or more meter skid sensors and the controller is transmitted to a remote data services for operator monitoring.

Abstract: In switching of a microgrid from an isolated operation to an interconnected operation with a power grid, a CEMS server determines a first master DER and slaves based on a master plan and performs master-slave control. When the first master DER goes down, the CEMS server compares remaining capacities of power-storage-type DERs included in a DER group. The CEMS server then determines a DER with the highest remaining capacity as a second master DER among the power-storage-type DERs included in the DER group and performs master-slave control.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a programmable controlled intelligent cooking machine which has an electrical control device and an automatic ingredient feeding device connected with the electrical control device; the automatic ingredient feeding device is adapted for receiving a standard package box with a plurality of compartments stocked with ingredients; the electrical control device is adapted for receiving preset recipe command and sending corresponding control command according to the recipe command; the automatic ingredient feeding device is adapted for providing major ingredients and accessory ingredients stocked in respective compartments of the standard package box according to a preset feeding sequence in the received corresponding control command; the combinations of feeding sequence for each Chinese dish can change. The present invention further discloses a feeding and cooking control method of a programmable controlled intelligent cooking machine.

Abstract: Described herein are heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) systems and methods directed to indoor air quality. HVACR systems and methods are based on dynamic people modeling to simulate and/or to monitor airflow impact on pathogen spread in an indoor space. HVACR systems and methods model an indoor space with pathogen killing technology to deploy the pathogen killing technology. HVACR systems and methods are directed to control administration of a pathogen killing technology to an indoor space based on factors that impact airflow including from dynamic analytics, a known input, and/or detection.

Abstract: A programmable controlled intelligent cooking machine has a housing and a wok arranged inside of the housing, an electromagnetic heating coil, an electromagnetic heating controlling device, a wok rotating device, a wok working position controlling device, a wok lid and a wok lid controlling device, an automatic ingredient feeding device, an automatic accessory ingredient adding device and an electrical control device; the wok rotating device, the wok working position controlling device, the wok lid controlling device, the electromagnetic heating controlling device, the automatic ingredient feeding device and the automatic accessory ingredient adding device are connected with the electrical control device respectively, and perform corresponding operation according to the received control command, thus achieving full-automatic cooking.

Abstract: A method for producing a tailor-made implant intended to be implanted at an implantation site of a damaged bone part, the method comprising a step in which a 3D representation of a standard implant is superposed on a 3D representation of a damaged bone part by positioning said standard implant on an implantation site of the damaged bone part, in order, if necessary, to modify the dimensions and/or to adjust the shape of said standard implant, and also, if necessary, to modify the outer surface of said standard implant, which may be either the impression or substantially the impression of the outer surface of said bone part in the state prior to superpositioning of said implant, when the geometry of the damaged bone part is intended to be retained, or a functional outer surface, when said tailor-made implant is intended to be used at the interface of two bone parts cooperating with each other.

Abstract: Improvements to an HVAC thermostat include a sleep-enhancing feature which regulates the target temperature of the HVAC system according to a temperature profile which complements the natural changes in body temperature of a person during sleep. The timing of the temperature profile is advanced to cause room temperature to decrease before the natural decrease in body temperature is expected to occur, thereby helping lead a person into sleep without the use of pharmaceuticals or other artificial sleeping aids. The temperature profile causes room temperature to increase towards the end of the sleep period, thus avoiding disruptions of sleep when body temperature is lowest or during REM stages of sleep when the human body's ability to thermo-regulate is diminished. The rate of change of the target environment temperature is controlled to further enhance the quality and duration of sleep.

Abstract: Example implementations relate to punch-in transitions to smoothly transition operation of parts of a robotic system from control tracks to real-time input, such as to smoothly transition a control track rotating a knob at a handheld controller to real-time input received at the handheld controller. Similarly, example implementations relate to punch-out transitions to smoothly transition operation of parts of a robotic system from real-time input to control tracks, such as to smoothly transition from the real-time input received at a handheld controller to a control track rotating a knob at a handheld controller. In particular, an example system may include a handheld haptic controller, a control system, and a robotic component.

Abstract: An internal defect detection system for a three-dimensional additive manufacturing device which performs additive molding by emitting a laser beam to a powder bed is provided. This system specifies a candidate position of an internal defect on the basis of a change amount of a local temperature measured in an irradiated part of a powder bed irradiated by a laser beam. The system calculates a cooling speed at the candidate position on the basis of a temperature distribution and determines whether an internal defect exists on the basis of the cooling speed.

Abstract: An artificial intelligence cooking device includes a plate including a heater configured to heat ingredients in a cooking vessel placed on the plate; a vibration sensor disposed below the plate configured to detect a vibration signal of the ingredients in the cooking vessel transmitted through the plate; and a processor configured to determine, via an artificial intelligence model having learned properties of the vibration signal, whether or not the ingredients in the cooking vessel are boiling based on the detected vibration signal provided to the artificial intelligence model and the learned properties of the vibration signal; and output information indicating whether or not the ingredients are boiling based on the determination.

Abstract: User interface sessions in a user interface device are initiated or resumed according to stored state data. A session request is received from a first client device. A user profile associated with the session request is identified and a determination made as to whether a previous session exists. If no previous session exists, a new session is instantiated using a default session configuration. If a previous session exists, a new session is instantiated according to the previous session.

Abstract: To ensure safety of people needing to service a low-voltage network of an electric power distribution system, dwellings being connected to this network may include autonomous units for producing electricity, thus generating voltage and endangering the people servicing the work. Data are obtained from consumption records from the meter of each dwelling, in regular time intervals, and meteorological data are also obtained in the geographical area of these dwellings, in order to identify at least some weather conditions conducive to the production of energy by autonomous units. A model is then applied for detecting, based on the first and second data, a coincidence between periods of lower consumption measured by a meter and weather conditions conducive to electricity production by autonomous units during these periods. Therefore, information on the presence of autonomous units in the dwelling can be deduced and given to people before their servicing.