Abstract: Controlling a fresh air intake includes determining a fresh air intake damper position based on the supply air flowrate, a measure of energy delivered to the supply air flow, or a measure of humidity of the supply air flow. Determining the fresh air intake damper position is subject to a constraint that the AHU maintains one or more comfort conditions in the building space and one or more of a constraint regarding maintaining one or more Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) contaminants in the building space below one or more IAQ thresholds, minimizing energy consumption of the AHU, and maximizing the fresh air ventilation air flow into the building space. Various parameters used to determine the fresh air intake damper position may be derived from available sensed conditions so as to reduce the number of physical sensors that are required.

Abstract: A modular insole for an article of footwear is disclosed. The modular insole comprises a shell portion having a first surface arranged to face a foot of a wearer of the article of footwear and a second surface arranged to face away from the foot of the wearer; and a stiffening element capable of being removably coupled to the second surface of the shell portion and arranged to modify a stiffness of the modular insole when the stiffening element is coupled to the shell portion. A method and a machine-readable medium are also disclosed.

Abstract: A storage package, a storage device, and a method for operating a storage device are provided. A storage package includes a fan, a display device, and a storage device which includes a non-volatile memory, and is configured to output a control signal based on a temperature of the storage device or an indication of whether a memory operation is scheduled to be executed on the non-volatile memory. The storage device includes a control circuit configured to control an operation the fan and/or the display device based on the control signal, and is configured to control the display device to output light with different colors according to first to third temperature ranges of the temperature of the storage device. The control circuit is configured to operate the fan to cool the storage device responsive the storage device exceeding a preset reference temperature, or responsive to scheduled memory operations.

Abstract: An energy management system and method designed to analyze the energy consumption of a building or cluster of buildings is provided. The system includes a user device and a controller. The controller includes a building energy audit analysis level, an energy demand-supply management level, and a heat and mass balance simulation level. The system integrates energy consumer-type users, energy server-type users, and energy developer-type users on one single platform. The energy management system provides a single platform for the sustainable management of energy data, integrates the users, inputs energy data, analyzes the data, and outputs energy performance and energy efficiency data based on the analyzed data.

Abstract: The automated irrigation system for trees includes a capacitance sensor having a pair of probe plates configured for clamping a trunk of a tree therebetween. The capacitance sensor is configured to measure a capacitance of a portion of the trunk of the tree between the pair of probe plates. A water reservoir stores water for irrigation, and a pump is in fluid communication with the water reservoir for selectively pumping the water therefrom. A conduit is in fluid communication with the pump for carrying the water pumped by the pump to soil around the tree. A controller is in communication with the capacitance sensor and the pump. The controller is configured to calculate a relative permittivity of the portion of the trunk of the tree and to actuate the pump to deliver water to the soil around the tree when the relative permittivity falls below a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A universal air conditioning controller is provided. The controller includes an interface for receiving wires from any of a plurality of different types of air conditioning systems. The controller determines the air conditioning type based on the connected wires and operates the air conditioning system based on its respective operational characteristics, modes, power requirements, and the like. The controller can connect to a network and can serve as a hub for connecting nearby devices to the network.

Abstract: A device module for a laboratory device is shown and described. The device module has at least one temperature control medium connection for connecting the device module, as required, to a temperature control medium supply of, in particular, a liquid or gaseous temperature control medium, at least one line connection for connecting, as required, to at least one supply line of the laboratory device for the temperature control medium, and at least one actuator of a control process and/or control loop for controlling and/or regulating at least one temperature in the laboratory device.

Abstract: An oven appliance and method for operation therefor, including determining a fan speed of a fan assembly; comparing the fan speed to a lower fan speed limit; allowing adjustment of the fan speed to the lower fan speed limit when the fan speed is greater than the lower speed limit; disabling decrease of the fan speed when the fan speed is equal to the lower fan speed limit; and adjusting a control variable corresponding to operation of the flow device based on a commanded adjustment of the fan speed when the fan speed is greater than the lower speed limit, wherein adjusting the control variable corresponding to operation of the flow device decreases a fan noise from the flow device.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device, a method, and a medium for charging. The device for charging includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor, a charging pile, and a processor. The first sensor obtains first sensing information from a battery connected with the charging pile. The second sensor obtains second sensing information from a photovoltaic system connected with the charging pile. The third sensor obtains third sensing information from a power grid connected with the charging pile. The charging pile transmits power to a target object. The processor is configured to determine power storage information of the battery, photovoltaic power supply information of the photovoltaic system, and power grid power supply information of the power grid, respectively; determine the target object to be charged based on the power pile; determine a source object, and, control the charging pile to transmit power to the target object.

Abstract: A system and method for adaptive environmental monitoring with intelligent sampling and power management are disclosed. The system includes at least a sensing device configured to monitor an environmental condition associated with at least a structure, wherein the at least a sensing device includes at least a sensor cluster including one or more device sensors, and a controller communicatively connected to the at least a sensing device, wherein the controller is configured to receive one or more device datasets from the at least a sensing device, wherein the one or more device datasets includes a sensor measurement, determine at least a sensor usage pattern as a function of the one or more device datasets, generate a power managing command as a function of the at least a sensor usage pattern, and execute the power managing command in the at least a sensing device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a PLC device capable of variably setting parameters, the PLC device converting variable parameters into a parameter program command rather than into the parameters themselves so as to store same in a program memory, thereby enabling parameter values to be actively changed according to changes in sensor values of factory equipment.

Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, system includes one or more processors to use one or more neural networks to control a direction of air flow caused by one or more fans to cool a coolant circulating within a liquid-to-air heat exchanger or to cool one or more servers of a rack, based at least in part on sensor data associated with at least one of: the coolant or the rack.

Abstract: A machine learning device learns a set temperature, in a target space, in order to achieve a demand target value that is an upper-limit value of a power consumption of an air conditioner, installed in the target space, in a predetermined period. The machine learning device includes a learning unit, first and second acquisition units, and an updating unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a first variable including at least one of the power consumption of the air conditioner and an indoor state value correlated with a state in the target space. The second acquisition unit acquires evaluation data useable to evaluate a control result of the air conditioner. The updating unit updates, by using the evaluation data, a learning state of the learning unit. The learning unit performs learning in accordance with an output of the updating unit. The evaluation data includes the power consumption of the air conditioner.

Abstract: A controller of a building automation system, and a method thereof, comprising a communication component and a processor. The communication component communicates with one or more other controllers of multiple automation level devices. The automation level devices are associated with an automation level network of the building automation system. The automation level devices include the controller and the other controller(s). The processor designates a particular controller of the automation level devices as a global data server. The global data server provides synchronized images of a predefined set of objects across all controllers of the automation level network.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for dynamically deactivating rectifiers to force remaining rectifiers to operate at or near their peak power efficiency. Rectifiers, for example rectifiers on racks of a data center, may operate according to an efficiency curve, based on its current load. Instead of distributing an AC power load across more rectifiers that operate sub-optimally on their efficiency curve, aspects of the disclosure provide for automatically deactivating some rectifiers by lowering voltage set-points. As power load to a rack decreases, the voltage of the current to a rectifier with a reduced voltage set-point falls below the set-point and turns off. Power is automatically redistributed to the remaining active rectifiers. The redistribution increases the power load onto the remaining rectifiers, allowing the rectifiers to perform more efficiently in converting AC power to DC power.

Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for providing a data structure comprising a refined energy schedule, the method comprising receiving a plurality of energy demand requests, energy storage offers, and/or energy supply offers from a plurality of participants of a power network; determining by a plurality of distributed computational units the refined energy schedule, using an optimization function, under consideration of the plurality of energy demand requests, energy storage offers, and/or energy supply offers, wherein the refined energy schedule is an at least substantially optimal energy schedule; and appending the refined energy schedule to the data structure. A further aspect of the disclosure relates to a data structure, in particular to the data structure provided in the method.

Abstract: A thermal energy exchange and ventilated hollow core slab system and method within a building where the slab has an air passage with an inlet and outlet, an air handler unit having adjustable heating/cooling structure and, and ventilation structure connected to the hollow core concrete slab, and a building control connected to the hollow core concrete slab and air handler system for relative thermal exchange between the air and hollow core concrete slab to control user comfort; where the building is grid enabled.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a method to operate a system comprising an energy storage system (ESS) and a converter. The ESS being connected to the converter such that a DC-side of the converter forms DC terminals between which at least one string of modules of the ESS is connected. The method comprises receiving a bypass request to bypass at least one module in the ESS, based on a total number of modules to be bypassed exceeding a number of redundant modules, controlling the converter to reduce the terminal voltage of the ESS; and after reducing the terminal voltage of the ESS, bypassing the module. There is further disclosed herein a system comprising a central controller performing said method.

Abstract: Architectures or techniques are presented that can prioritize operating a consumption device in a manner that is efficient in terms of consumption of a resource over satisfying a specified demand assigned to the consumption device. This re-prioritizing can be performed in response to a price of the resource exceeding a threshold.

Abstract: An approach for measuring health of a system using benchmarks. The approach may incorporate defining benchmarks with sensors providing data of selected conditions of a system, collecting a predetermined amount of most recent data from the sensors for one or more modes of the system, training a model that represents the system, the model having a response variable that is a function of the predetermined amount of the most recent data from the sensors, applying the model trained, to the benchmarks to get a response of the model in a form of the response variable that is the function of the predetermined amount of the most recent data from the sensors, and comparing the response of the model of the most recent time window with a response of the model of a previous time windows to determine health of the system.