Abstract: A system for managing performance of one or more electrical components in real-time includes one or more sensors to provide working conditions of one or more energy consuming devices. The system further includes one or more actuators coupled to and configured to control the one or more energy consuming devices. Additionally, the system includes a computing device in electrical communication with the one or more sensors and the one or more actuators. The system also includes a database capable of retaining an instruction program for the computing device. The computing device includes a processor that is configured to receive data from the one or more sensors, analyze data from the one or more sensors, and execute the instruction program received from the database in order to optimize operation of the one or more energy consuming devices based on one or more criteria.

Abstract: A system for managing performance of one or more electrical components in real-time is disclosed. The system includes one or more sensors coupled to one or more energy consuming devices and adapted to provide working conditions of the one or more energy consuming devices. The system further includes one or more actuators coupled to and configured to control the one or more energy consuming devices. Additionally, the system includes a computing device in electrical communication with the one or more sensors and the one or more actuators. The system also includes a database capable of retaining an instruction program for the computing device. The computing device includes a processor that is configured to receive data from the one or more sensors, analyze data from the one or more sensors, and execute the instruction program received from the database in order to optimize operation of the one or more energy consuming devices based on one or more criteria.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for decoding serial data uses a bit-wise synchronization technique in which a single bi-directional counter integrates the value of each successive bit to decode the bit state. The counter is sized relative to the receiver module oscillator frequency and the minimum data transmission speed to prevent overflow under worst case conditions, and the count is reset to one-half the maximum count at the beginning of each bit. During the bit period, oscillator clock pulses respectively increase or decrease the count when the bit value is above or below a threshold, and the bit value is determined in accordance with the most significant bit of the counter at the end of the respective bit period. Only a single counter is used to decode the data, and the data is substantially insensitive to noise because filtering can be used to reliably establish the state boundaries of the data bits.