Abstract: One or more Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacons in communication with a remote server that provides check in capabilities and payment capabilities may be installed at a location. The BLE beacons may connect with a user's mobile device when the user enters the location and allow the user to check in to the location and authorize payments to be made at the location. Once the user is checked in to the location, the user may be provided with additional functionality, benefits, offers, and applications related to the location and facilitated by the check in. Further, the user may be pre-checked in into a next location when the user is at a current location.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a data processing and control augmentation system capable of identifying overloading of one or more wind turbine assemblies and providing information to a wind farm controller to reduce a power output of each overloaded turbine. The augmentation system thus reduces the power output of each overloaded turbine and, in turn, reduces loads applied to the wind turbine assembly, such as for a period of time until conditions favorably change. A described analysis of the present disclosure is able to utilize several incoming data streams from sensors so arranged to measure wind effects on blades to calculate and compare cyclic loads to threshold limits to o keep the loads within design limits. The control strategy reduces premature failure of components within the wind turbine assembly, and can be applied across an entire wind farm, even with only a subset of wind turbine assemblies being retrofitted.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods to implement preferred pathways in mobile robots. Example methods may include obtaining, via at least one of a user interface and a corresponding Application Programming Interface API call, at least one preferred pathway for an autonomous mobile robot, transmitting the at least one preferred pathway to the autonomous mobile robot, generating a planned path for the autonomous mobile robot based at least in part on an influence function, the influence function being representative of an amount of bias towards the at least one preferred pathway on a motion planning decision of the autonomous mobile robot, the amount of bias being based at least in part on a metric associated with the at least one preferred pathway, and causing the autonomous mobile robot to move from a start point to an end point along the planned path.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a data processing and control augmentation system capable of identifying overloading of one or more wind turbine assemblies and providing information to a wind farm controller to reduce a power output of each overloaded turbine. The augmentation system thus reduces the power output of each overloaded turbine and, in turn, reduces loads applied to the wind turbine assembly, such as for a period of time until conditions favorably change. A described analysis of the present disclosure is able to utilize several incoming data streams from sensors so arranged to measure wind effects on blades to calculate and compare cyclic loads to threshold limits to o keep the loads within design limits. The control strategy reduces premature failure of components within the wind turbine assembly, and can be applied across an entire wind farm, even with only a subset of wind turbine assemblies being retrofitted.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a data processing and control augmentation system capable of identifying overloading of one or more wind turbine assemblies and providing information to a wind farm controller to reduce a power output of each overloaded turbine. The augmentation system thus reduces the power output of each overloaded turbine and, in turn, reduces loads applied to the wind turbine assembly, such as for a period of time until conditions favorably change. A described analysis of the present disclosure is able to utilize several incoming data streams from sensors so arranged to measure wind effects on blades to calculate and compare cyclic loads to threshold limits to o keep the loads within design limits. The control strategy reduces premature failure of components within the wind turbine assembly, and can be applied across an entire wind farm, even with only a subset of wind turbine assemblies being retrofitted.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a data processing and control augmentation system capable of identifying overloading of one or more wind turbine assemblies and providing information to a wind farm controller to reduce a power output of each overloaded turbine. The augmentation system thus reduces the power output of each overloaded turbine and, in turn, reduces loads applied to the wind turbine assembly, such as for a period of time until conditions favorably change. A described analysis of the present disclosure is able to utilize several incoming data streams from sensors so arranged to measure wind effects on blades to calculate and compare cyclic loads to threshold limits to o keep the loads within design limits. The control strategy reduces premature failure of components within the wind turbine assembly, and can be applied across an entire wind farm, even with only a subset of wind turbine assemblies being retrofitted.

Abstract: The present invention consists of an evaluation engine, which is a system for evaluating the state of an animation at a specific time where secondary animation may be derived from the state of the animation at another time. Unlike DAG-based systems where time is another variable, time is external to the evaluation engine so that it can easily evaluate alternate times and even entire simulations. It also comprises meshes which support instancing and edge weights, and which employ and extensible system of polygon types to support subdivision surface approximation using a set of bi-quadratic patches which solve quickly. The meshes can also be animated by the evaluation engine using a mesh stack, which has multiple evaluation paths for quickly computing mesh attributes without performing a full evaluation.

Abstract: A method for transferring data may include receiving data from a monitoring device, determining whether the subject being monitored has a condition that may require attention, and sending a notification message to a portable electronic device that is designed to be carried by a caregiver if such a condition exists. The notification message may be sent using one or both of a first wireless data transfer method and a second wireless data transfer method. The system may use both methods to communicate with one device or may use the first method to communicate with a first device and the second method to communicate with a second device. The portable electronic device may include two wireless transceivers such as a transceiver designed to connect the device to a local area network of a facility and a transceiver designed to connect the device to a cellular network.

Abstract: A method for use in monitoring a subject may include receiving physiologic data from sensors connected to the subject, processing the data from the sensors to identify a condition of the subject that may require attention by a user, sending a notification message to a portable electronic device, designed to be carried by a user, to indicate that the subject has a condition that may require attention by the user, and sending live data from the sensor to the portable electronic device based on a notification message sent to the portable electronic device. The live data may include physiologic data such as ECG waveform data. The live data may be sent with the notification message and/or may be sent in response to a user request. The method may also include sending a window of data acquired from the subject at about the same time as the alarm was triggered.

Abstract: A medical monitoring system generates notification messages indicating that a patient being monitored may have a condition that requires attention. The system then wirelessly transfers the notification messages to a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may include a processing circuit configured to receive the notification messages. The processing circuit may also be configured to implement an organizer function such as a task list or schedule information, and may be configured to facilitate transfer of wireless data using a wireless transceiver. The portable device may also include an identification device coupled to the processing circuit and configured to input data representative of an identity of a subject of interest from an information source at a distance from the identification device. The identification device may be a barcode scanner or may be an RFID circuit.

Abstract: A system for use in a monitoring a plurality of subjects may be configured to receive data from a monitoring device, determine whether a subject has a condition that may require attention based on data received from the monitoring device, wirelessly send a notification message to a first portable electronic device and/or a second portable electronic device if a subject has a condition that may require attention, and facilitate voice communication between the first portable device and the second portable device. The voice data may be transferred using one of a network of the health care facility, a direct wireless connection between the portable devices, and a cellular network. The system may further be configured to forward other data from the first portable device to the second portable device, such as data associated with a notification message being displayed on one of the devices.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means for an enterprise, such as a health care facility, to receive messages from any one of a plurality of disparate, ancillary vendor applications, convert the vendor information to an enterprise usable form and then store the enterprise information on an enterprise database. The enterprise keeps vendor specific rules for converting each vendor's information to enterprise information. Additionally, relational enterprise rules are applied to the enterprise data stored in a enterprise database, so as disparate vendor information is converted to enterprise data, the relationships between that converted enterprise data are checked with the enterprise data stored in the enterprise database. Enterprise data can also be directly entered into the enterprise database from enterprise system clients, the relationships between that enterprise data are also checked with the enterprise data stored in the enterprise database.

Abstract: A cellular architecture includes antenna arrays that are arranged to reduce soft handoff areas, thereby increasing system performance. The arrays are arranged such that each of the arrays are aligned along one of a plurality of parallel lines in a first direction at a regularly spaced interval, each of the arrays on a single line in the first direction having a same orientation, each of the arrays along adjacent parallel lines being staggered with respect to a nearest neighboring array in a second direction such that the second direction forms an angle of approximately 10.89 degrees with respect to a direction perpendicular to the first direction. In preferred embodiments, the orientation of arrays along adjacent parallel lines is rotated by sixty degrees with respect to each other. The architecture is particularly well-suited to CDMA systems. In preferred embodiments including smart antenna arrays, transmission to mobile users occurs along a primary multipath and two secondary multipaths.

Abstract: A device for maintaining or reestablishing a natural heart rhythm by generating an electrical stimulation signal. In particular a device in the form of an implantable heart pacemaker that displays at least one sensor arranged inside the patient's body for picking up a body-specific signal containing information concerning demand for heart performance, or another magnitude relevant to the heart. The device is characterized by the fact that connected downstream to the sensor is a processing unit that obtains from the measurement signal a body-specific rhythm signal whose periodicity is equal to or greater than the periodicity of the breathing activity, and thus lies above the periodicity of the heart activity, whereby the body-specific rhythm signal forms a control signal that influences the stimulation signal.

Abstract: Device for maintaining or restoring a natural heart rhythm through the generation of an electrical stimulation signal, in particular in the form of an implantable heart pacemaker, which device shows two sensors arranged inside the body of the patient for picking up a body-specific signal that contains information concerning the demand for heart performance or another magnitude relevant to the heart. Connected to the downstream side of the sensors is a processing unit that obtains, from the temporal difference of a body-specific signal received one after another at both sensors, a body-specific time-delay signal, which represents the length of the determined time delay. The body-specific time-delay signal forms at least indirectly a control signal that influences the point in time and/or the time sequence of the stimulation signal.

Abstract: A phone presentation device for holding and displaying a portable telephone handset within an automotive vehicle has a housing, an adjustable cradle attached to an inner surface of the housing, and a pivoting mount member for pivotally mounting the housing to a trim piece in the vehicle for movement between a stowed position hidden from view within a depression in the trim piece and a deployed position in which the handset is presented for use. The adjustable cradle has an elongate base member with a handset receiving section, a fixed grip mounted on a first end of the base member, an adjustable grip mounted on a second end of the base member for movement between a first position biasing the handset longitudinally toward the fixed grip and a second position in which the handset may be released from the fixed grip, and a pair of springs for biasing the adjustable grip between the first and second positions.

Abstract: A device for generating a therapeutic value for a patient as a function of t least one variable parameter picked up within the body and constituting a first input value, with a change in the first parameter being a function of a second parameter which also constitutes an input value. The device includes circuitry for varying the generation of the therapeutic value by varying the second parameter so that the difference of the values of the first parameter, at selected limits of a variation range of the first parameter, constitutes a maximum in an intended treatment range of the patient. A memory retains a value of the second parameter for which the variation range of the first parameter constitutes a maximum. Control circuitry changes the therapeutic value as a function of the first parameter while maintaining the previously stored second parameter.