Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator sheave liner includes a liner body having an inner surface configured to be received against a sheave and an outer surface configured to engage an elevator tension member. The liner body comprises a polymer material and a plurality of wear resistance particles in the composite material. The wear resistance particles are nanoparticles or microparticles. At least some of the wear resistance particles establish a traction characteristic of the outer surface of the sheave liner.

Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating cameras and phased array antennas for use in electronic toll charge (ETC) are disclosed. In one aspect, an ETC system includes a camera including a lens and configured to capture an image indicative of a position of a vehicle and a plurality of antennas formed in a ring around the lens of the camera. The system further includes control circuitry configured to: determine the position of the vehicle based on the image captured by the camera, adjust the antennas for beamforming based on the position of the vehicle, and wirelessly communicate with an on board device (OBU) of the vehicle via the beamforming provided by the adjusted antennas.

Abstract: A battery apparatus includes batteries arranged in a first direction; an end plate disposed at an end of the battery apparatus and having adjacent third and fourth surfaces; a protective support disposed on the end plate and having adjacent first and second surfaces. The first and third surfaces are disposed opposite to each other, and the second and fourth surfaces face the batteries; the fourth surface has an adhesive layer; the protective support has a notch at a junction of the first and second surfaces, and the notch is a first notch, and/or the end plate is provided with a notch at a junction of the third and fourth surfaces, and the notch is a second notch; a first (first notch and third surface), second (second notch and first surface), or third (first and second notches) combination forms a groove, and an opening of the groove faces the batteries.

Abstract: A belt of an elevator system includes one or more tension elements extending longitudinally along a length of the belt, and an elastomeric jacket at least partially enveloping the one or more tension elements. The jacket defines a traction side configured to be interactive with a traction sheave of the elevator system and a back side opposite the traction side. A protective tape is applied to the elastomeric jacket at the back side. A method of assembling an elevator system includes forming a belt, and installing the belt in a hoistway of the elevator system. One or more additional components of the elevator system are installed in the hoistway. A protective tape is removed from a jacket of the belt after installation of the one or more additional components is completed.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for predicting subfield soil properties for an agricultural field comprises: receiving satellite remote sensing data that includes a plurality of images capturing imagery of an agricultural field in a plurality of optical domains; receiving a plurality of environmental characteristics for the agricultural field; generating a plurality of preprocessed images based on the plurality of satellite remote sensing data and the plurality of environmental characteristics; identifying, based on the plurality preprocessed images, a plurality of features of the agricultural field; generating a subfield soil property prediction for the agricultural field by executing one or more machine learning models on the plurality of features; transmitting the subfield soil property prediction to an agricultural computer system.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display substrate, a display substrate and a display device are provided. The method for manufacturing a display substrate includes: forming, on a base substrate, a concave-convex structure extending in a direction identical to an extending direction of a signal transmission line; and forming the signal transmission line on the concave-convex structure.

Abstract: A belt of an elevator system includes one or more tension elements extending longitudinally along a length of the belt, and an elastomeric jacket at least partially enveloping the one or more tension elements. The jacket defines a traction side configured to be interactive with a traction sheave of the elevator system and a back side opposite the traction side. A protective tape is applied to the elastomeric jacket at the back side. A method of assembling an elevator system includes forming a belt, and installing the belt in a hoistway of the elevator system. One or more additional components of the elevator system are installed in the hoistway. A protective tape is removed from a jacket of the belt after installation of the one or more additional components is completed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying clouds and cloud shadows in satellite imagery are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of images of agronomic fields produced using one or more frequency bands. The system also receives corresponding data identifying cloud and cloud shadow locations in the images. The system trains. a machine learning system to identify at least cloud locations using the images as inputs and at least data identifying pixels as cloud pixels or non-cloud pixels as outputs. When the system receives one or more particular images of a particular agronomic field produced using the one or more frequency bands, the system uses the one or more particular images as inputs into the machine learning system to identify a plurality of pixels in the one or more particular images as particular cloud locations.

Abstract: A method and an orchestration server for packet data network service slicing over a network infrastructure for real-time IP services are provided. The method comprises providing an orchestration server that has knowledge of a whole connectivity status of a network infrastructure and that is configured to manage service nodes. The server receives a session request for a real-time IP service from a UE device located in a given region and requests to one or more service nodes of said given region whether it has/they have network resources. Each of the one or more service nodes compute a QoS measurement thereof in terms of KPIs including latency, jitter and bandwidth, the QoS measurement being computed by a software module that is implemented on a virtual machine deployed on the service node; and tag a plurality of interfaces. The orchestration server selects a given service node in view of said QoS measurement.

Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying clouds and cloud shadows in satellite imagery are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of images of agronomic fields produced using one or more frequency bands. The system also receives corresponding data identifying cloud and cloud shadow locations in the images. The system trains a machine learning system to identify at least cloud locations using the images as inputs and at least data identifying pixels as cloud pixels or non-cloud pixels as outputs. When the system receives one or more particular images of a particular agronomic field produced using the one or more frequency bands, the system uses the one or more particular images as inputs into the machine learning system to identify a plurality of pixels in the one or more particular images as particular cloud locations.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for predicting agronomic field property data for one or more agronomic fields using a trained machine learning model is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at an agricultural intelligence computer system, agronomic training data; training a machine learning model, at the agricultural intelligence computer system, using the agronomic training data; in response to receiving a request from a client computing device for agronomic field property data for one or more agronomic fields, automatically predicting the agronomic field property data for the one or more agronomic fields using the machine learning model configured to predict agronomic field property data; based on the agronomic field property data, automatically generating a first graphical representation; and causing to display the first graphical representation on the client computing device.

Abstract: A control function configuration method includes broadcasting a control function message in a control system through a narrow-band communication network, and receiving a function-configured notification message sent by a target secondary control device in the control system through the narrow-band communication network. The function-configured notification message indicates that a control function of the target secondary control device has been configured to be a target control function. The method further includes broadcasting a function-configured status message in the control system through the narrow-band communication network. The function-configured status message indicates that the control function of the target secondary control device has been configured to be the target control function.

Abstract: A communication method includes, in response to determining that target data needs to be sent to a secondary control terminal that has already established a communication connection with a primary control terminal, generating secondary control terminal data including an identifier of the secondary control terminal and the target data, and, in a process of broadcasting synchronization data including an identifier of the primary control terminal, broadcasting the secondary control terminal data.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for predicting subfield soil properties for an agricultural field comprises: receiving satellite remote sensing data that includes a plurality of images capturing imagery of an agricultural field in a plurality of optical domains; receiving a plurality of environmental characteristics for the agricultural field; generating a plurality of preprocessed images based on the plurality of satellite remote sensing data and the plurality of environmental characteristics; identifying, based on the plurality preprocessed images, a plurality of features of the agricultural field; generating a subfield soil property prediction for the agricultural field by executing one or more machine learning models on the plurality of features; transmitting the subfield soil property prediction to an agricultural computer system.

Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying clouds and cloud shadows in satellite imagery are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of images of agronomic fields produced using one or more frequency bands. The system also receives corresponding data identifying cloud and cloud shadow locations in the images. The system trains. a machine learning system to identify at least cloud locations using the images as inputs and at least data identifying pixels as cloud pixels or non-cloud pixels as outputs. When the system receives one or more particular images of a particular agronomic field produced using the one or more frequency bands, the system uses the one or more particular images as inputs into the machine learning system to identify a plurality of pixels in the one or more particular images as particular cloud locations.

Abstract: The distribution network comprising a plurality of caching nodes and wherein the web content had been statically identified as an uncacheable content and originated on an origin-server and wherein the method establishes a time to live, TTL, period value to said uncacheable content based on users requests and responds to said users requests by sending to at least to one CDN user said uncacheable content within said TTL period value. Each one of said plurality of caching nodes in said distribution network including a content caching manager and a pseudo-dynamic content TTL predictor and performing the following steps: a) contacting each one of said plurality of nodes with a centralized repository, in order to download the configuration file of a plurality of said CDN users.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and network device for tracking OPT-OUT user preferences in a global communication network and computer programs thereof, The method comprising performing, by at least one a user, at least one operation request for a service of an online system (500); tracking, by a network device (300), said operation request and detecting if it is linked to a tracking mechanism, wherein: a) if it is not linked to a tracking mechanism, said network device (300), bypasses the operation request to said online system (500) without performing any action; or if it is linked to a tracking mechanism, the network device (300), identifies whether an OPT-OUT or an Opt-In status related to the user is included in the operation request and sends or not the operation request to a tracking server (600) depending on the result of said identification.

Abstract: A distributed health-check method for web caching in a telecommunication network, wherein a plurality of web caching nodes are coordinated to monitor a set of origin servers where web content is generated. The method includes associating to each user of the telecommunication network requesting the web content buckets as logical containers for holding the web content requested; generating a list of users of the telecommunication network requesting the web content; and performing the plurality of web caching nodes a number of health-checks to the set of origin servers to download the requested web content. A filtering of the set of origin servers is performed for grouping in different areas of interest and the number of health-checks are performed by a limited number of caching nodes receiving the web content requests. The limited number of caching nodes selected belonging to a specific area of interest of the set of origin servers monitoring them.

Abstract: In the method, a plurality of access points forming a cluster in a telecommunication network monitor network data traffic information from at least one user computing device connected thereto; report an own identifier and a used public IP to a remote server recording them; establish connections between access points in said cluster by mapping the own identifier with said public IP; determine its internal status and state of the connection of said at least one monitored user computing device; generate, each certain time-frequency, a profile; calculate, in a determined time T1, a forecast of future requirements of the own access point and send to one access point of said plurality acting as a cluster coordinator said calculated forecast, wherein said coordinator defines a routing path through carrying out associations of access points to which perform the backhaul aggregation.

Abstract: In the method, a plurality of access points forming a cluster in a telecommunication network monitors network data traffic information from at least one user computing device connected thereto; obtains a status profile; reports an own identifier to a remote server; builds, by using a record including the corresponding identifier of each access point, a list of access points available for performing backhaul aggregation; and establishes connections between available access points forming sub-clusters of access points. Wherein, one of the access points acts as a cluster coordinator coordinating said formed sub-clusters of access points for a backhaul aggregation. The device is adapted to implement the method.