Carrier Corporation

Otis Elevator Company

Utc Fire and Security Corporation

Jianwei Zhao

Qiang Li

Zhen Jia

Alan Matthew Finn

Hui Fang

Anna Su

ZhaoXia Hu

LongWen Wang

Alois Senger

Zhaoxia Hu

Jie Xi

Wilfrid Fuchs

Liang Cai

Sanming Wen

Arthur Hsu

Lei Chen

Ziyou Xiong

Yanzhi Chen

Gero Gschwendtner

Yanying Chen

JianGuo Li

Wei Ge

XuLei Guo

Zhengwei Jiang

Hongcheng Wang

Jianguo Li

Xin Zhou

YuHui Kuang

Peter Johannes McKinney

Lei Sun

Prasad Babu Lakshmipathy

Xiaohua Wang

Penghe Geng

Suzankumar Gongate

Sowmya Paturu

Rodrigo Esteban Caballero

Nigel Bruce Morris

Sreeramya Soratkal

Qian Li

LingHao Tian

Anning Qui

Lijia Zhao

Jiahuan Zhou

DuEon Kim

Robert Hong-Leung Chiang

Xiaowei Wu

Hon Ming Ng

Hanshu Dong

Dan Zhou

Yiting Zheng

Chandra Shekhar Pullela

Devendra Gupta

Benliang Li

Peter Johannes Mckinney

Nigel Morris

Xulei Guo

A method and an active commissioning system for video analytics (VA) of video surveillance are provided. The method includes capturing, using a video capture device, a video sequence and receiving, at a VA processor, a parameter set from a cloud resource, wherein the parameter set is used for video analytics. The method also includes processing the video sequence by selecting subparts of the video sequence as events, wherein the events are detected based on the parameter set, generating a visualized report using the events from the VA processor and providing the visualized report to an operator, marking, by the operator, yes/no on the events in the visualized report, generating annotations for events based on the marking, and transmitting the annotations and the events to the cloud resource for processing, wherein the cloud resource processes the annotations and events and provides the parameter set based on the processing.

Cloud based active commissioning system for video analytics

Air quality detecting device

The present invention provides an air filtering system for use in a building and an HVAC system, wherein the air filtering system includes: an outside-air inlet; a first filtering stage at the downstream of the outside-air inlet; a second filtering stage at the downstream of the first filtering stage; a collection module for collecting outside-air quality information; and a control module in communication with the collection module, wherein the control module adjusts an operation state of the first filtering stage and/or the second filtering stage based on the air quality information collected by the collection module. The system of the present invention has the advantages of energy saving, low maintenance cost, etc.

Air filter system and HVAC system

A smoke detector capable of multi-mode charging and a firefighting system including the smoke detector. The smoke detector includes a housing, a working module arranged in the housing and configured for detecting smoke and making a response, and a battery module configured for providing electrical energy to the working module, and further includes: a wireless charging module electrically connected to the battery module, and configured for being in wireless connection with an external wireless charging device to receive electrical energy therefrom and provide the received electrical energy to the battery module; and a light energy charging module electrically connected to the battery module, and configured for collecting light energy in a surrounding environment and converting it into electrical energy which is then provided to the battery module.

Smoke detector capable of multi-mode charging and firefighting system including the same

A system for directing an emergency evacuation within a building composed of one or more rooms is provided. The system comprising: a fire panel (); one or more fire detectors () configured to detect a fire in each of the one or more rooms; a fire panel () in electronic communication with each of the one or more fire detectors (), the fire panel () being configured to determine evacuation information in response to whether a fire is detected in each of the one or more rooms; and one or more hologram systems () in electronic communication with the fire panel (), wherein each of the one or more hologram systems () is configured to generate a hologram in the one or more rooms to convey evacuation information.

Virtual assistant based emergency evacuation guiding system

A method for improving the effectiveness of a building air circulation system having motorized blower and a contamination filter. The method including predicting a cost of operation of the system over an operational duration based on at least electricity consumption of the motor (), and an operational cost to operate the filter (), predicting a cost of maintenance of the system over the operational duration based on at least one of, a condition of the filter (), a cost of a filter (), a cost of labor to clean or replace the filter (), and an effectiveness of the filter () over the operational duration, and balancing the cost of operation of the circulation system versus the cost of maintenance of the circulation system over the duration to recommend at least one of a filter use/bypass schedule, a filter maintenance schedule, and a fresh air input schedule satisfying an operation objective and an operational constraint.

Condition based energy smart air circulation system

A living organism statistical system in a predetermined spatial region according to the present invention includes Bluetooth modules that can be carried by living organisms and configured to broadcast a Bluetooth signal to the predetermined spatial region, and a living organism statistical device mounted in the predetermined spatial region and configured to receive Bluetooth signals from one or more of the Bluetooth modules and obtain quantity information of living organisms in the predetermined spatial region based on the received Bluetooth signals. The present invention can implement automatic determination of quantity information of living organisms in a predetermined spatial region, and therefore, the present invention can dynamically control one or more air terminal devices of an HVAC system in a self-adaptive manner according to changes in the quantity information.

Biosome counting and device controlling for a predetermined space region

The present invention relates to device control for a predetermined area of space and belongs to the technical field of intelligent control of devices. A control system provided by the present invention comprises: a sensing component installed in the predetermined area of space and used for sensing the predetermined area of space to at least determine density information of living beings in the predetermined area of space, and an HVAC control and management unit of an HVAC system, wherein the sensing component is interactively connected with the HVAC control and management unit in a wireless communication mode, and the HVAC control and management unit is configured to control one or more air end devices at least based on the determined density information of living beings.

Control for device in a predetermined space area

Air quality monitor

An image sensor terminal and a building management system, and belongs to the field of building intelligent management technologies. The image sensor terminal includes an image sensor and a lens element, and further includes: a photosensitive filter and light-transmitting layer disposed at a light incoming side of the lens element; and the image sensor terminal is further provided with a mounting portion for fixing the image sensor terminal into a building. A building management system uses a plurality of the image sensor terminals. Image information acquired by the image sensor terminal under strong light conditions is more accurate, and image information acquired under different ambient light density conditions is more consistent. The control of the building management system under different ambient light density conditions has better accuracy.

Image sensor terminal and building monitoring system

A building air conditioning control system for controlling the comfort degree of air in at least one floor area of the building, and includes: a first head counting module to acquire first head count change data of a floor area according to a weight change of a cabin of an elevator when passing the corresponding floor area; a second head counting module to acquire second head count change data of the floor area according to data acquired by an image sensor mounted in the corresponding floor area; and an air conditioning control module to correct head count change data based on the first head count change data and the second head count change data, and control the comfort degree of air in the floor area based on the corrected head count change data. The building air conditioning control system and control method provide accurate control and good user experiences.

Building air conditioning control system and control method thereof

An elevator system comprises a first information collection device disposed in a passenger waiting area of the elevator system and used for acquiring first passenger characteristic information; a second information collection device used for acquiring second passenger characteristic information inside the car; an information analysis and processing device that receives the first passenger characteristic information and the second passenger characteristic information, is configured to perform analysis and processing, based on the first passenger characteristic information, so as to transmit a first control command for dispatching the elevator, is configured to perform analysis and processing on the first passenger characteristic information to acquire classification information of a passenger and to further transmit, based on the classification information, a second control command that is applicable for passengers in a corresponding classification, and is further configured to dynamically transmit, based on the second passenger characteristic information, a third control command.

Elevator system using passenger characteristic information to generate control commands

A monitoring system includes: an imaging sensor configured to sense a lighting device of the passenger conveyor to acquire image data; and a processing apparatus configured to process the image data, the processing apparatus being configured to include: a background acquisition module configured to acquire a background model based on sensed image data; a foreground detection module configured to compare image data sensed in real time with the background model to obtain a foreground object; and a working condition judgment module configured to perform data processing at least based on the foreground object to judge whether the lighting device is in a normal state. Then, a failure or an abnormal lighting state of the lighting device can be timely diagnosed so that maintenance is performed.

Monitoring system of a passenger conveyor, a passenger conveyor, and a monitoring method thereof

The present invention relates to the field of passenger conveyor technologies, and provides a speed detection system of a passenger conveyor and a speed detection method thereof. In the speed detection system and the speed detection method of the present invention, an imaging sensor and/or a depth sensing sensor are/is used to sense at least one part of the passenger conveyor to acquire sequence frames, and the sequence frames are analyzed by a processing apparatus to obtain at least speed information about steps of the passenger conveyor.

Speed detection system of passenger conveyor and speed detection method thereof

The present invention relates to the technical field of elevator control, and provides an elevator system capable of monitoring children use and a control method thereof. The elevator system of the present invention includes: an elevator control system; an RGB-D sensor or an intelligent wearable device; and an information analytic processing apparatus. The elevator system and control method thereof in the present invention is accurate, reliable and safe when monitoring the situation of children using the elevator.

Elevator capable of monitoring use of child and a control method thereof

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Shanghai, China

Jianwei Zhao