Abstract: A cloud-based system that includes a plurality of remote refrigerated appliances equipped with a communication and temperature control board with sensors interface, a computing cloud, and a distributed software environment for refrigerators operational data acquisition and storage and for developing testing and executing temperature control methods and with energy optimization techniques is provided. The communication and temperature control board activates the elements of a refrigerated appliance based on direct control of the remote distributed environment executing the temperature control method in software. The distributed software environment executing the temperature control method acquires operational data and energy consumption from the sensors connected to the remote communication and temperature control board and employs energy optimization techniques.

Abstract: This invention teaches a method for delivering fuel to flying helicopter and fixed winged aircraft that is both safer than and compatible with presently used ‘boom’ and ‘drogue’ airborne fueling systems. This method introduces to the mid-air refueling repertoire the use of refueling drones as additional air vehicles, in a first instance tethered to and deployed from the craft receiving fuel. The recipient drone fuselage, configured with a receptacle for accommodating a tanker-controlled fuel dispensing boom, a forward-facing recipient-controlled fuel capture probe for accommodating fuel dispensing drogues, or both, assures compatibility with all mid-air fuel dispensing equipment in present use. The same invention in a later instance extends the inventory of mid-air fuel dispensing resources to include fueling drones of complementary configuration for deployment from airborne fuel tankers.