Abstract: A method for controlling and managing a front door refrigerator using an application installed in a recording medium, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a step in which a user logs into a front door refrigerator control application installed in a recording medium including a mobile device, thereby allowing a main screen including menu display regions to be displayed on a display unit of the mobile device; and a step in which a storage information confirmation menu is selected from among a plurality of execution menus displayed in the menu display regions, wherein, when the storage information confirmation menu is selected, storage information of a product stored in the front door refrigerator is output to the display unit of the mobile device.

Abstract: A gas powered appliance includes a burner for burning gas, a flame sensor positioned proximate the burner to detect a strength of a flame on the burner and to output signals indicative of the strength of the flame, and a controller connected to the flame sensor. The controller includes a communication interface, a processor, and a memory containing instructions that program the controller to control the burner, receive the signals from the flame sensor indicative of the strength of the flame, determine the strength of the flame from the received signals, and output, using the communication interface, an indication of the strength of the flame to a mobile device for display on the mobile device.

Abstract: Sensorized commercial buildings are a rich target for building a new class of applications that improve operational and energy efficiency of building operations that take into account human activities. Such applications, however, rarely experience widespread adoption due to the lack of a common descriptive schema that would enable porting these applications and systems to different buildings. Our demo presents Brick [4], a uniform schema for representing metadata in buildings. Our schema defines a concrete ontology for sensors, subsystems and relationships among them, which enables portable applications. Using a web application, we will demonstrate real buildings that have been mapped to the Brick schema, and show application queries that extracts relevant metadata from these buildings. The attendees would be able to create example buildings and write their own queries.

Abstract: A floating master controller system is provided that includes a plurality of hardware units, each capable of carrying out at least one mechanical function. Each hardware unit includes a processor configured via controller code included in a memory to cause the respective hardware unit to operate and carry out the at least one mechanical function. The controller code for each hardware unit includes a master controller (MC) application and at least one floating master controller (FMC) application. Each MC application is operably configured to function as an active master controller that controls the at least one mechanical function in each of the plurality of hardware units in the system and is operably configured to control the at least one mechanical function for its respective hardware unit responsive to tracking another one of the MC applications that is functioning as the active master controller in the system.

Abstract: A smart lawnmower and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the smart lawnmower, in a real world-to-simulated world (“real-to-sim”) training phase, the smart lawnmower constructs a simulated environment corresponding to a mowing-relevant portion of a real-world environment relative to semantic information, which may include received location signalization at an antenna In a simulated world-to-real world (“sim-to-real”) mowing phase, a mowing policy is applied to control the cutting subsystem and the drive subsystem in response to the semantic information, which may include the location signalization. In each of the real-to-sim training phase and the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may provide a user interface including the simulated environment. Further, in the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may synchronize the real world and the simulated world.

Abstract: A processor may receive instructional information. The instructional information may be associated with an instructional media. A processor may analyze the instructional information for one or more instructions. A processor may identify a target device from the one or more smart devices in the smart environment that are associated with the one or more instructions. A processor may perform the one or more instructions with the target device.

Abstract: High processing accuracy of a workpiece is maintained even if the workpiece is misaligned. A laser processing apparatus includes: a setting section that sets a pattern area and a distance measurement position on a captured image; a condition setting storage section that stores image information in the pattern area; a position correction section that detects a misalignment of a new workpiece different from a workpiece used to set the pattern area and corrects the distance measurement position on the new workpiece; a distance measurement section that measures a distance based on a light reception position of distance measuring light in a distance measuring light receiving section; and a Z scanner that adjusts a focal position based on a measurement result of the distance measurement section prior to irradiation of the workpiece with laser light.

Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more flow controllers is associated with a cold plate and with a thermosyphon condenser that is elevated with respect to a cold plate so that two-phase fluid is enabled for gravity-assisted downflow in a liquid phase to a cold plate for absorption of heat and is enabled for buoyancy-driven upflow through a riser tube into a thermosyphon condenser for dissipation of heat of at least one computing device.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems, devices and methods for the efficient use of utilities, more particularly to the distribution and provision of electricity supply at appropriate voltages, monitoring and usage by end devices, and to facilitating consumers in changing their energy usage behaviour, and to adopt and easily install appropriate sustainable, energy efficient or renewable technologies. Said end devices typically including traditional electric, electronic and lighting appliances requiring AC or DC power provision or low voltage DC power via AC/DC converters.

Abstract: A method and device for milling a large-diameter aspheric surface by using a splicing method and a polishing method to solve the problems of large time consumption and serious tool wear in the machining of a meter-scale large-diameter aspheric surface are disclosed. where an aspheric surface is discretized into a series of rings with different radii, and the rings are sequentially machined via generating cutting by using an annular grinding wheel tool with an outer diameter less than ¼ of a diameter of the aspheric surface; the rings are equally spaced, there are a total of N rings, and a width of any ring is jointly determined by the Nth ring, the (N?1)th ring, positioning accuracy and a generatrix equation of the aspheric surface; and the aspheric surface is enveloped by a large number of rings. A contact area between the tool and a workpiece surface is rings.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a control method and a device for an air conditioner. The method includes: a first reward matrix is constructed according to multiple sets of target operating parameters of an air conditioner, a maximum expected benefit of performing a current action in a current state is calculated based on the first reward matrix and a Q-learning algorithm, wherein the current state is represented by a current indoor environment temperature and a current outdoor environment temperature; target action parameters under the maximum expected benefit are acquired, and operation of the air conditioner is controlled based on second target action parameters, wherein the second target action parameters at least include a second target operating frequency of the compressor, a second target opening degree of the electronic expansion valve and a second target rotating speed of the external fan.

Abstract: Examples relate to flexible datacenters or other power loads tolerant of intermittent operation and configured to use power received behind-the-meter. A system may include a set of computing systems powered by behind-the-meter power and a datacenter control system. The datacenter control system may be configured to monitor a set of conditions that includes behind-the-meter power availability at the set of computing systems and perform a weighted analysis using the set of monitored conditions. Based on the weighted analysis, the datacenter control system may be configured to modulate operating attributes of one or more computing systems of the set of computing systems. In some examples, the datacenter control system is a remote master control system in communication with a datacenter control system of a flexible datacenter housing the set of computing systems.

Abstract: A method for controlling an environmental system may include defining a reference signal of an environmental variable in a greenhouse. The method may also include receiving renewable resource information related to the greenhouse. The method may further include receiving dynamic weather information of an environment external to the greenhouse. In addition, the method may include determining an optimization control scheme based on the reference signal, renewable resource information, and dynamic weather information. Further, the method may include regulating environmental conditions in the greenhouse according to the optimization control scheme.

Abstract: Systems and methods of operating a collaborative building network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of operating a building management system includes acquiring, by a first computing system, data using one or more sensors of a first building of a first entity, providing, by the first computing system, a set of sharing rules for the acquired data, determining, by the first computing system by applying the set of sharing rules, whether to share the acquired data with a second computing system associated with a second building of a second entity, and providing, by the first computing system, the acquired data to the second computing system responsive to the determination.

Abstract: A management system makes decisions using local and national outdoor air quality data, public health data, and building and occupant information. The system addresses the balance between healthy air and energy efficiency.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for implementing smart windows, smart home systems that include smart windows, and user devices and applications for control thereof. A smart window, or photovoltaic window, may include a photovoltaic configured to generate electrical power from incident light onto the photovoltaic window, store the electrical power, and send the electrical power to an electronics package or various electrical loads including a wireless communication system, sensors, or window functions. The photovoltaic window may communicate with various smart home system devices such as hub devices and user devices, which may include the reception of control data at the photovoltaic window and the transmission of sensor data captured by the window sensors.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for controlling a heat distribution system.

Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including using the operating data to evaluate one or more fault detection rules to determine whether at least one of the plurality of building devices is experiencing a fault condition, in response to determining that at least one of the plurality of building devices is experiencing the fault condition, determining an amount of carbon emissions generated due to the fault condition based on a fault emissions model associated with the fault condition and initiating an automated response based on the amount of carbon emissions associated with the fault condition.

Abstract: A method of controlling an agricultural facility for housing a plurality of animals includes the step of regulating the environment within the agricultural facility with an automated building operational system. An automated thermal event controller is operationally coupled with the automated building operational system and generates a thermal event signal in response to a thermal event in progress, whereby the automated thermal event controller, upon receipt of the thermal event signal indicating that the thermal event is in progress, activates an alarm state. In the alarm state, the automated thermal event controller: sends an alarm signal to a system administrator; places the automated building operational system in a safety-mode condition for a first predetermined time interval; and places the automated building operational system in a normal-mode operational condition after the first predetermined time interval and if a confirmatory signal is not yet then received from the system administrator.

Abstract: Various implementations for a drop-in humidity controlling device with one or more sensors configured to collect humidity data and temperature data and a drop-in housing that connects between a power supply and a venting component, the drop-in housing including a command application configured to receive the humidity data and temperature data and cause the venting component to receive power from the power supply responsive to the humidity data and the temperature data.