Honeywell International Inc.

Ademco Inc.

Honeywell G.m.b.h.

Aravind Padmanabhan

Bernard S Fritz

Cleopatra Cabuz

James Allen Cox

Ulrich Bonne

Ron Bardell

Tom M Rezachek

Peter L Reutiman

Soumitri N Kolavennu

Ernest Allen Satren

Teresa M Marta

Yuandong Gu

Jay G Schwichtenberg

Robert E Higashi

Kenneth L Addy

Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan

Anvar A Zakhidov

Tomas Brodsky

J David Zook

Hai D Pham

Michael James Haji-Sheikh

Michael G Marchini

Rongbao Nie

Yunting Lin

Ramdas Pai

Guenadiy Lazarov

Daniel J Sheflin

Ray H Baughman

Wei Yang

Steve D Huseth

Sharath Venkatesha

Amit Kulkarni

Eugen I Cabuz

Thomas R Ohnstein

Richard Alan Davis

Andrzej Peczalski

Christopher Scott Larsen

Douglas D Bird

Brian C Krafthefer

Vladimir Havlena

Peter Tobias

Thomas M Rezachek

Petr Stluka

Christopher J Zins

Subash Krishnankutty

David Joseph Wunderlin

Perry A Holman

James Gerard McAward

Neal Muggleton

Mike E Bazakos

Jicang Zhou

Kenneth O MacFadden

Eugen Loan Cabuz

Christopher Humphrey

Samuel George Fenton

Ron L Bardell

Allen A Cox

Wing Au

Dane Larson

Robert Demers

Cabuz Cleopatra

Jay Schwichtenberg

Peter Reutiman

James G Mcaward

A facial recognition system includes a memory for storing a facial image database, wherein the facial image database includes a plurality of entries each corresponding to a different person, and wherein each entry includes a person identifier along with one or more facial images of the person. The facial recognition system further includes a facial recognition module that is operatively coupled to the memory. The facial recognition module is configured to receive a new facial image, and to select one or more facial recognition engines based on one or more facial image parameters of the new facial image, and to use the selected facial recognition engines to compare the new facial image with facial models that are based upon facial images stored in the facial image database in order to identify the person in the new facial image.

Facial enrollment and recognition system

Methods and systems for monitoring procedural compliance of staff in a facility. A system may include a plurality of sensors positioned adjacent a hand washing station. Each of the plurality of sensors may be configured to provide a corresponding sensor output signal that is indicative of whether a person is washing their hands at the hand washing station or not. A controller may be configured to fuse the sensor output signals from each of two or more of the plurality of sensors and to determine using the fused sensor output signals whether the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with one or more predetermined criteria or not. The controller may be further configured to output a notification when the controller has determined that the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with the one or more predetermined criteria.

Methods and systems for improving infection control in a facility

A voice activated knowledge management system may be used as a virtual assistant. In some cases, a knowledge management system may be configured to receive a voice request from a user, generate and send a knowledge base query to each of the two or more different knowledge base engines, and fuse the resulting responses from the knowledge base engines, resulting in a fused response. The fused response may be provided back to the user as a response to the voice request and/or may be provided as a device command to control a corresponding device.

Voice activated virtual assistant with a fused response

Integrating functionality in a line powered device of a facility is described herein. One method includes integrating, in a line powered device of a facility that has a first functionality, a second functionality, obtaining, by the line powered device, information associated with the facility using the second functionality, and sending, by the line powered device, the information associated with the facility obtained using the second functionality to a computing device.

Integrating functionality in a line powered device of a facility

A structure having convergence of a control system and a data analytics system. The control system may involve input-output models of items, for example, homes, buildings and process plants. The system may use sensor data and scientific principles to implement control models. The models may help to precisely achieve a desired value of a parameter. The data analytics system may involve analysis of diverse data and may create insights of the items. The control system plus the data analytics system may close the loop between insights and on-premise controls of the items represented by the input-output models. The control and data analytics systems may merge the best of both worlds to solve difficult issues pertaining to the items. The structure may be for comfort control, energy reduction, and so on, having improved performance based on the convergence.

Convergence structure for control and data analytics systems

Systems and methods of using secondary measurements to make a system-based determination are provided. Some methods can include a transceiver device receiving a first signal from at least one system-based device, the transceiver device receiving a second signal from at least one non-system device, and control circuits coupled to the transceiver device making a system-based determination responsive to both the first signal and the second signal.

System and method of motion detection and secondary measurements

A regional monitoring system in communication with a plurality of locally displaced detectors can implement a fusion of inputs from a variety of additional non-system devices. The monitoring system includes a wireless receiver or transceiver enabling the system to detect local traffic from the non-system devices, such as sensors. Information received from such non-system devices can be combined with information from system detectors to initiate activity on other networks, to energize actuators, or to activate system detectors that normally reside in a low energy inactive state.

Methods, systems, and devices for determining current are described herein. One method includes receiving power from a current conductor using a first quantity of coils of a wire around a magnetic core at least partially surrounding a portion of the current conductor, receiving an indication associated with a determined current through the current conductor from a current sensor associated with the wire, and receiving power from the current conductor using a second quantity of the coils of the wire, wherein the second quantity is determined based, at least in part, on the determined current.

Determining current

Device voice recognition systems and methods are described herein. One example of a method for device voice recognition includes receiving a voice command, determining a number of devices relating to the voice command, and adjusting a setting of the number of devices based on the received voice command.

Device voice recognition systems and methods

A sensing device exhibits a tunneling magneto-resistive (TMR) effect, and changes electrical resistance in response to a magnetic field. A first current carrying conductor is positioned in proximity to the TMR sensing device, such that upon an application of a sufficient current, a magnetic field is generated. The magnetic field is sufficiently strong and properly oriented so as to cause a magnetization of a soft magnetic layer of the TMR sensing device, thereby causing a change of the TMR sensing device from one bi-stable state to another bi-stable state.

Tunneling magneto-resistive device with set/reset and offset straps

Methods, systems, and devices are described herein. One method can include receiving a voice command from a user at a voice controlled device, determining a presence of the user to the device using a sensor, converting the voice command to a device specific command, and performing the device specific command using the device in response to the determined presence.

User authentication of voice controlled devices

Surveillance systems and methods are described herein. Surveillance systems and methods can include detecting a number of interactions within a building, determining an event based on the number of interactions, and sending a message to a number of contacts relating to the event.

Surveillance systems and methods

Embodiments may comprise personal protective equipment with integrated physiological monitoring. Some embodiments may relate specifically to in-ear devices (such as hearing protection and/or communication devices) having one or more physiological sensors for early monitoring for heat related illnesses. Several embodiments may incorporate a temperature sensor and a speaker into such in-ear device.

Personal protective equipment with integrated physiological monitoring

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Plymouth, MN, United States of America

Aravind Padmanabhan