Abstract: An intelligent baby caring method and arrangement helps to recognize and maintain emotional interaction between mother and her baby and to improve the baby's life rhythm and calm and soothe him/her automatically when needed and help him/her to fall asleep and to wake up at the most convenient time and way. The aim is to help the mother with her baby to find optimal life and care rhythm. The invention is focused on a platform (101) with many sensors, sensor sheet (120), a transducer to produce acoustic and mechanical vibrations (14) and an airflow blower (132). Sensors are also fixed to the mother (10) and in the care room (198). A sleep/activity graph of the baby and sleep/emotion graph of the mother are measured and tracked with multimodal sensors and an artificial intelligence unit (200) processes audio, motion and airflow actions given to the baby from the platform to help the baby to move from an improper to optimal sleep/activity level.

Abstract: A method is for monitoring interaction between a person and his companion and pet. The method can be realized via a data transfer network, a monitoring arrangement used in the method, a server and a computer program to be used in the monitoring arrangements, which are included in the monitoring arrangement. With the method and monitoring arrangement, an interactive event between the companion and person and/or pet can be visualized on a data processing device for a selected time period. The data processing device can be situated in a different location than the persons and pet being monitored. In the method, the latest 3D location measuring data and physiological measuring data of the pet, companion and person are compared to long-term average data. The physiological measuring data is received from wireless monitoring devices carried by the pet, companion and person.

Abstract: A method, a data network arrangement and a computer program product by which a comparator can be implemented in a data network. The user of the comparator stores his evaluation of the properties included in the targets to be evaluated in a database in the server in the data network using a graphic one- or two-dimensional evaluation frame. In the comparator the comparator user's evaluations are compared to property evaluations given by a reference user. When calculating the total accuracy percentage of the comparison the evaluations given by the comparator user are weighted with a weighting coefficient, which is obtained by normalizing first the importance evaluations of all the properties given by the reference user and by using the normalized importance evaluation of a certain property as the weighting coefficient for this property.

Abstract: A method is for monitoring interaction between a person and his companion and pet. The method can be realized via a data transfer network, a monitoring arrangement used in the method, a server and a computer program to be used in the monitoring arrangements, which are included in the monitoring arrangement. With the method and monitoring arrangement, an interactive event between the companion and person and/or pet can be visualized on a data processing device for a selected time period. The data processing device can be situated in a different location than the persons and pet being monitored. In the method, the latest 3D location measuring data and physiological measuring data of the pet, companion and person are compared to long-term average data. The physiological measuring data is received from wireless monitoring devices carried by the pet, companion and person.

Abstract: A monitoring method of a path of an animal can be realized via a data transfer network, a monitoring arrangement used in the method, a server and a computer program to be used in the monitoring arrangement, which are included in the monitoring arrangement. With the method and monitoring arrangement, the path of a monitored living target can be visualized on a data processing device for a selected time period. The data processing device can be situated in a different location than the animal being monitored. The recent 3D acceleration measurement data of the living target is compared to the long-term average data. The measurement data used in determining the path are obtained from the wireless monitoring device, which the animal carries with it.

Abstract: A method, a data network arrangement and a computer program product by which a comparator can be implemented in a data network. The user of the comparator stores his evaluation of the properties included in the targets to be evaluated in a database in the server in the data network using a graphic one- or two-dimensional evaluation frame. In the comparator the comparator user's evaluations are compared to property evaluations given by a reference user. When calculating the total accuracy percentage of the comparison the evaluations given by the comparator user are weighted with a weighting coefficient, which is obtained by normalising first the importance evaluations of all the properties given by the reference user and by using the normalised importance evaluation of a certain property as the weighting coefficient for this property.

Abstract: A monitoring method of a path of an animal can be realized via a data transfer network, a monitoring arrangement used in the method, a server and a computer program to be used in the monitoring arrangement, which are included in the monitoring arrangement. With the method and monitoring arrangement, the path of a monitored living target can be visualized on a data processing device for a selected time period. The data processing device can be situated in a different location than the animal being monitored. The recent 3D acceleration measurement data of the living target is compared to the long-term average data. The measurement data used in determining the path are obtained from the wireless monitoring device, which the animal carries with it.

Abstract: The invention relates to a teamwork method and a computer system, using which the evaluations of a group about the features of different targets can be gathered and summarized. The system comprises a server (1), the workstation of the main user (3), a number of workstations for evaluators (4-7) and the software used by the web-browser. The main user formulates the inquiry. The server requests through email the evaluators to answer it. The evaluations are entered graphically using a two-dimensional table. The axes of the table present the dimensions to be evaluated. The program calculates normalization for the answers given so that the mean value is located in the origin. When a report is requested the server calculates the normalized mean-value figure, places the points in the two-dimensional table and adds ellipses around them, the dimensions of which present the deviation of the points in the direction in question.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, an arrangement and a cellular network terminal with which it is possible to gather and analyze customer feedback received about a product or service. A user provides feedback by utilizing a two-dimensional evaluation field (31), which is presentable on a graphical display. The provided feedback is transferred via a data transmission network (20) into a product/service provider's database (22). The information in said database (22) is analyzed in real time, so that possible corrective measures can be initiated immediately when a problem appears.

Abstract: The invention relates to a teamwork method and a computer system, using which the evaluations of a group about the features of different targets can be gathered and summaries can be made. The method is fast, democratic, anonymity ensuring, suitable for information network working, multidimensional, skew attitudes correcting and suitable for working independent of place. The system comprises a server (1), the workstation of the main user (3), a number of workstations for evaluators (4-7) and the software used by the web-browser, which the main user and the evaluators can connect to. The main user formulates the inquiry. The server requests through email the evaluators to answer it and gives at the same time the instructions and identifiers required. The evaluations are entered graphically using a two-dimensional table. The axes of the table present the dimensions to be evaluated (e.g. on the vertical axis “importance” and the horizontal axis “performance”).

Abstract: Device for listening to and recording of the sounds produced by birds or other distant objects. The device (FIG. 1) is attached to a pair of binoculars or a telescope and consists of one or more directional microphones, microphone structures or sets of microphones, a microphone and headphone amplifier and a pair of headphones, the directional microphone structures (2, 3) and the amplifier unit (4) with the headphones (7) being attached to the binoculars (1) by suitable means. An audio signal can be supplied from the amplifier to an external recording device, or a recording device may be integrated with the device of the invention. Used together with a pair of binoculars or a telescope, the device provides a light and easy-to-use means of audiovisual observation of distant objects, and when provided with an integral or external tape recorder it is also suited for amateur use for the recording of wildlife sounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical device for measuring moisture in a substrate, in which device water is conveyed from the substrate along a porous absorption part (5) on a surface (4) of a prism so that is causes the critical angle of the total reflection to be changed thereon as a result of the change of the index of refraction. Another surface of the prism is dyed or patterned and covered in such a manner that it becomes visible only through reflection from the surface (4) when the surface is dry. When the surface (4) is moist, only the absorption part is visible through the viewing surface. The invention is advantageous in that due to the application of the principle of total reflection the change from an indication of the presence of moisture to an indication of the absence of moisture takes place sharply, not gradually.