Abstract: A modular approach is provided for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region that can be implemented quickly and easily using existing city infrastructure to establish a grid of sensors and detectors to provide localized or wide area coverage. The approach provides a turnkey solution or smart city in a box that can be adapted to different situations and needs to provide communications functionality and/or a desired or customized functionality for a wide range of different applications.

Abstract: A system for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region is provided. The system may comprise: a modular edge computing platform configured to provide a predetermined functionality for a particular application, the modular edge computing platform is configured to process sensor data to generate processed data, and transmit the processed data; and a remote entity that comprises (i) a cloud analytic configured to receive the processed data from the modular edge computing platform and analyze the processed data, and (ii) a cloud user interface module configured to provide a graphical user interface on a user device, the graphical user interface displays one or more results generated by the cloud analytic upon analyzing the processed data.

Abstract: A system for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region is provided. The system may comprise: a modular edge computing platform configured to provide a predetermined functionality for a particular application, the modular edge computing platform is configured to process sensor data to generate processed data, and transmit the processed data; and a remote entity that comprises (i) a cloud analytic configured to receive the processed data from the modular edge computing platform and analyze the processed data, and (ii) a cloud user interface module configured to provide a graphical user interface on a user device, the graphical user interface displays one or more results generated by the cloud analytic upon analyzing the processed data.

Abstract: A system for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region is provided. The system may comprise: a modular edge computing platform configured to provide a predetermined functionality for a particular application, the modular edge computing platform is configured to process sensor data to generate processed data, and transmit the processed data; and a remote entity that comprises (i) a cloud analytic configured to receive the processed data from the modular edge computing platform and analyze the processed data, and (ii) a cloud user interface module configured to provide a graphical user interface on a user device, the graphical user interface displays one or more results generated by the cloud analytic upon analyzing the processed data.

Abstract: A modular approach is provided for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region that can be implemented quickly and easily using existing city infrastructure to establish a grid of sensors and detectors to provide localized or wide area coverage. The approach provides a turnkey solution or smart city in a box that can be adapted to different situations and needs to provide communications functionality and/or a desired or customized functionality for a wide range of different applications.

Abstract: A system for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region is provided. The system may comprise: a modular edge computing platform configured to provide a predetermined functionality for a particular application, the modular edge computing platform is configured to process sensor data to generate processed data, and transmit the processed data; and a remote entity that comprises (i) a cloud analytic configured to receive the processed data from the modular edge computing platform and analyze the processed data, and (ii) a cloud user interface module configured to provide a graphical user interface on a user device, the graphical user interface displays one or more results generated by the cloud analytic upon analyzing the processed data.

Abstract: A modular approach is provided for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region that can be implemented quickly and easily using existing city infrastructure to establish a grid of sensors and detectors to provide localized or wide area coverage. The approach provides a turnkey solution or smart city in a box that can be adapted to different situations and needs to provide communications functionality and/or a desired or customized functionality for a wide range of different applications.

Abstract: A modular approach is provided for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region that can be implemented quickly and easily using existing city infrastructure to establish a grid of sensors and detectors to provide localized or wide area coverage. The approach provides a turnkey solution or smart city in a box that can be adapted to different situations and needs to provide communications functionality and/or a desired or customized functionality for a wide range of different applications.

Abstract: A modular approach is provided for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region that can be implemented quickly and easily using existing city infrastructure to establish a grid of sensors and detectors to provide localized or wide area coverage. The approach provides a turnkey solution or smart city in a box that can be adapted to different situations and needs to provide communications functionality and/or a desired or customized functionality for a wide range of different applications.

Abstract: A modular approach is provided for sensing and responding to detected activity or an event in a region that can be implemented quickly and easily using existing city infrastructure to establish a grid of sensors and detectors to provide localized or wide area coverage. The approach provides a turnkey solution or smart city in a box that can be adapted to different situations and needs to provide communications functionality and/or a desired or customized functionality for a wide range of different applications.

Abstract: An oven for cooking foods, and especially for browning foods, has heated, radiant walls. Heat may be supplied by a gas burner flame in a plenum behind the walls, with products of combustion thus being isolated from the food in the oven chamber. In one embodiment food products are continuously conveyed through the oven chamber and, depending on oven temperature, are either cooked or simply browned in the oven by the radiant wall heat. Fats and other materials rendered from the food products, if not fully incinerated in the oven chamber, may be transferred along with exhaust air from the oven chamber to a separate combustion chamber, for incineration, the heat from which is used to contribute to heat requirements for the plenum. Steam or other inert gas is introduced to the oven chamber to minimize oxidation and prevent flame, and the steam can be produced by heat exchange with exhaust plenum gases. An alternative wall heating system uses electric resistance heat elements inside a thin ceramic wall.

Abstract: An oven for cooking and browning foods has heated, radiant walls. Heat may be supplied by a gas burner flame in a plenum behind the walls, with products of combustion thus being isolated from the food in the oven chamber. In one embodiment food products are continuously conveyed through the oven chamber and are either cooked or simply browned in the oven by the radiant wall heat. Fats and other materials rendered from the food products, if not fully incinerated in the oven chamber, may be transferred along with exhaust air from the oven chamber to a separate combustion chamber, for incineration. Steam or other inert gas is introduced to the oven chamber to minimize oxidation and prevent flame. An alternative wall heating system uses electric resistance heat elements inside a thin ceramic wall. In another embodiment a web-like metal conveyor of a radiant wall oven is returned through the oven in order to heat the conveyor sufficiently to put grill stripes on a product being browned, such as meat.

Abstract: A nozzle assembly is provided for use in apparatus for treatment of particulate material wherein the particulate material is conveyed through a treatment zone in fluidized condition, said fluidization being accomplished by a high velocity flow of gas directed against an imperforate member provided by the conveyor which gas flow is discharged from an elongated slot defined by the nozzle assembly and whose lengthwise direction extends in the direction that the particles are conveyed.

Abstract: Apparatus for roasting small quantities of coffee (typically less than five pounds) includes a roasting chamber with base and cylindrical wall portions in fixed relation to each other. Disposed coaxially within the chamber is a downwardly extending tube that has an outlet orifice spaced from the base surface, and an exhaust outlet is in the upper portion of the chamber. A stream of hot roasting gas flowed downwardly through the central tube at high velocity for impact on the base surface and deflection radially outwardly and then flow upwardly through the exhaust outlet at the top of the chamber produces a toroidal circulation pattern of fluidized coffee beans with rapid and uniform roasting of the green coffee, in a simple and compact arrangement in which roasting parameters (such as fluid temperature and cycle duration) may be easily adjusted depending on the degree of roast desired.

Abstract: A product conveyor that has a predominately open area transports food substances such as pizzas and the like to be cooked through a thermally insulated treatment zone. An array of nozzles disposed below the conveyor across the width and along the length of the treatment zone discharges streams of heated air upwardly through the conveyor against the bottom surfaces of the food products on the conveyor for primary heat exchange treatment. A reflection surface forms an upper boundary of the treatment zone, and the portion of the upwardly flowing air streams that is not deflected by the food products on the conveyor impinges against the deflection surface and is transformed into downward flowing relatively low velocity air for flow against and across the top surfaces of the food products. After those heat exchange interactions the air is drawn downwardly between the nozzles for exhaust at a point located below the conveyor.

Abstract: A product conveyor that has a predominately open area transports food substances such as pizzas and the like to be cooked through a thermally insulated treatment zone. An array of nozzles disposed below the conveyor across the width and along the length of the treatment zone discharges streams of heated air upwardly through the conveyor against the bottom surfaces of the food products on the conveyor for primary heat exchange treatment. A reflection surface forms an upper boundary of the treatment zone, and the portion of the upwardly flowing air streams that is not deflected by the food products on the conveyor impinges against the deflection surface and is transformed into downward flowing relatively low velocity air for flow against and across the top surfaces of the food products. After those heat exchange interactions the air is drawn downwardly between the nozzles for exhaust at a point located below the conveyor.