Smart energy monitoring and management system lays a foundation for the application and development of smart energy. However, in recent years, the work efficiency of smart energy development enterprises has generally ...Smart energy monitoring and management system lays a foundation for the application and development of smart energy. However, in recent years, the work efficiency of smart energy development enterprises has generally been low, and there is an urgent need to improve the application efficiency, resilience and sustainability of smart energy monitoring and management system. Digital twin technology provides a data-centric solution to improve smart energy monitoring and management system, bringing an opportunity to transform passive infrastructure assets into data-centric systems. This paper expounds on the concept and key technologies of digital twin, and designs a smart energy monitoring and management system based on digital twin technology, which has dual significance for promoting the development of smart energy field and promoting the application of digital twin.展开更多
This paper introduces the theory of system engineering on materiel into the management and monitoring of reliability, maintainability and supportability (RMS) activities in the aeronautic equipment's life cycle. I...This paper introduces the theory of system engineering on materiel into the management and monitoring of reliability, maintainability and supportability (RMS) activities in the aeronautic equipment's life cycle. In order to assure the science of RMS management, it analyzes the contents of RMS activities in a life cycle, provides the model of management and monitoring, and discusses the software realization of the management and monitoring system.展开更多
The integrated modular avionics （IMA） architecture is an open standard in avionics industry, in which the number of functionalities implemented by software is greater than ever before. In the IMA architecture, the r...The integrated modular avionics （IMA） architecture is an open standard in avionics industry, in which the number of functionalities implemented by software is greater than ever before. In the IMA architecture, the reliability of the avionics system is highly affected by the software applications. In order to enhance the fault tolerance feature with regard to software application failures, many industrial standards propose a layered health monitoring/fault management （HM/FM） scheme to periodically check the health status of software application processes and recover the malfunctioning software process whenever an error is located. In this paper, we make an analytical study of the HM/FM system for avionics application software. We use the stochastic Petri nets （SPN） to build a formal model of each component and present a method to combine the components together to form a complete system model with respect to three interlayer query strategies. We further investigate the effectiveness of these strategies in an illustrative system.展开更多
Real time crowd anomaly detection and analyses has become an active and challenging area of research in computer vision since the last decade.The emerging need of crowd management and crowd monitoring for public safet...Real time crowd anomaly detection and analyses has become an active and challenging area of research in computer vision since the last decade.The emerging need of crowd management and crowd monitoring for public safety has widen the countless paths of deep learning methodologies and architectures.Although,researchers have developed many sophisticated algorithms but still it is a challenging and tedious task to manage and monitor crowd in real time.The proposed research work focuses on detection of local and global anomaly detection of crowd.Fusion of spatial-temporal features assist in differentiation of feature trained using Mask R-CNN with Resnet101 as a backbone architecture for feature extraction.The data from,BIWI Walking Pedestrian dataset and the Crowds-By-Examples(CBE)dataset and Self-Generated dataset has been used for experimentation.The data deals with different situations like one set of data deals with normal situations like people walking and acting individually,in a group or in a dense crowd.The other set of data contains images four unique anomalies like fight,accident,explosion and people behaving normally.The simulated results show that in terms of precision and recall,our system performs well with Self-Generated dataset.Moreover,our system uses an early stopping mechanism,which allows our system to outperform to make our model efficient.That is why,on 89th epoch our system starts generating finest results.展开更多
The topic investigated competition in marketing as a survival yardstick for small and medium enterprises （SMEs） in Nigeria. The objectives addressed by this study were： （1） identifying different types and intensi...The topic investigated competition in marketing as a survival yardstick for small and medium enterprises （SMEs） in Nigeria. The objectives addressed by this study were： （1） identifying different types and intensity of competition that SMEs are exposed to along the life-cycle portfolio in Nigeria; （2） quantifying the strength of SMEs vis-a-vis some foreign enterprises in terms of market competition; and （3） proffering solutions on how best they could match competitively these foreign enterprises. Relevant models and theories were employed in literature to evolve detailed analysis of issues relating to the variables used in terms of competition in marketing and survival of juice-producing SMEs. Two hypotheses were investigated through the survey of 20 prominent Ikeja based SMEs using Cluster sampling, 5-points Likert summated rating scale was adopted, while Yard＇s formula with 95% confidence level and 5% error tolerance was used. Alternative form validity of the instrument was measured at 0.63 while its reliability was measured at Cronbach＇s alpha of 0.70. Pearson＇s product-moment correlation was used in testing hypothesis 1 while standard multiple regressions were used to test hypothesis 2. Findings revealed that there was strong relationship between survival of juice-producing SMEs with forms of competition on a firm＇s life-cycle; while competition had positive effects on survival components for the enterprises. It was concluded that since competition subsists in any firm＇s life-cycle, strategies to support operations for survival must be adopted. It was recommended that operators of SMEs have to monitor and manage competition as it affects their businesses positively and/or negatively.展开更多
Recent research has underscored the critical need for high-level global products to support comprehensive environmental monitoring and management[1],aligning closely with the objectives of the United Nations'Susta...Recent research has underscored the critical need for high-level global products to support comprehensive environmental monitoring and management[1],aligning closely with the objectives of the United Nations'Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs),particularly SDG 11.This goal focuses on transforming cities into inclusive,safe,resilient,and sustainable spaces.Understanding the relationship between urban expansion and population growth is essential for advancing sustainable urban development.However,the SDG11.3.1 indicator,despite having a clear evaluation method(the Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate(LCRPGR)),currently faces a significant challenge because of the lack of available data[2].This data gap hinders the comprehensive and effective measurement of urban land use efficiency,impacting the sustainable management of urban expansion.Therefore,there is an urgent need to acquire precise global-scale information on urban spatial distributions to address the data shortfall for the SDG 11.3.1 indicator and to facilitate improvements in the methods for expanding and monitoring this indicator.This process will assist in comprehensively assessing and managing the economic,social,and environmental impacts of urbanization,thereby supporting the objectives involved in sustainable urban development[3].展开更多
A high EMS current-mode SPI interface for battery monitor IC（BMIC） is presented to form a daisychain bus configuration for the cascaded BMICs and the communication between the MCU and master BMIC.Based on analog and...A high EMS current-mode SPI interface for battery monitor IC（BMIC） is presented to form a daisychain bus configuration for the cascaded BMICs and the communication between the MCU and master BMIC.Based on analog and digital mixed filtering technique,the proposed daisy-chain can avoid the isolated communication issue in electromagnetic interference environment,and reduce the extensively required I/O ports of MCU,at the same time reduce the system cost.The proposed daisy-chain interface was introduced in a 6-ch battery monitor IC which was fabricated with 0.35μ m 30 V BCD process.The measurement result shows that the presented daisy-chain SPI interface achieves better EMS performance with different EMI injection while just consuming a total operation current up to 1 m A.展开更多
Lithium-ion batteries(LIBs)have been extensively used in electronic devices,electric vehicles,and energy storage systems due to their high energy density,environmental friendliness,and longevity.However,LIBs are sensi...Lithium-ion batteries(LIBs)have been extensively used in electronic devices,electric vehicles,and energy storage systems due to their high energy density,environmental friendliness,and longevity.However,LIBs are sensitive to environmental conditions and prone to thermal runaway(TR),fire,and even explosion under conditions of mechanical,electrical,and/or thermal abuse.These unpredictable hazardous consequences significantly limit the commercial applications of LIBs.Thus,these safety issues need to be urgently addressed.In this review,the TR mechanisms and fire characteristics of LIBs are systematically discussed.Battery thermal safety monitoring methods,including the traditional technologies such as tempera-ture,voltage,and gas sensors,as well as the latest new technologies such as optical fiber sensors and ultrasonic imaging,are summarized.A battery thermal management system(BTMS)based on various cooling methods and new insights into the BTMS are briefly presented.According to the fire characteristics of LIBs,nonaqueous and water-based fire extinguishing agents are comprehensively summarized and compared,and the concept of an intelligent fire protection system is discussed.Based on the analysis of the thermal safety issues for preventing possible TRs and for extinguishing an already uncontrollable fire,a complete set of solutions for the thermal safety of LIBs is proposed.In this review,integrated strategies for intelligent detection and fire suppression of LIBs are presented and can provide theoretical guidance for key material design and intel-lectual safety systems to promote wide application of LIBs.展开更多
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world;indeed,it is the only thing that ever has.”-Margaret Mead My partner,Denise Donahue,and I,Simone du Boise,AIA,LEED AP,NCARB are,i...“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world;indeed,it is the only thing that ever has.”-Margaret Mead My partner,Denise Donahue,and I,Simone du Boise,AIA,LEED AP,NCARB are,in essence,environmentalists.As licensed architects,certified general contractors,and LEED Accredited Professionals,we co-founded Cadmus Environmental Design-Build in spite of our belief that the world doesn’t really need another developer,builder,or architect,but rather because it most certainly needs environmental stewards.We also believe we have both a personal and professional responsibility to utilize our abilities and expertise to“Build A Better Environment.”Our Weatherford Place Community is a living expression of that commitment to comprehensive energy and water conservation,coupled with contributory assets that demand less and deliver more as a community.Our signature solution,the EcoCraft Hybrid^(TM)Home,provides a prescriptive method towards Net Zero Energy results.Our formula factors efficiency,conservation,and CARE(Clean,Alternative,Renewable,Energy)toward a result of zero demand.Synergistic systems and innovations that include passive solar,active solar PV,and solar thermal are key to measurable results and LEED Platinum Certifications.The EcoCraft Hybrid^(TM)Home evolves around a holistic approach that includes:low impact design;utilitarian driven and directed by the local vernacular;passive and active solar integration;engineered systems to enhance conservation measures;and in-situ analysis that integrates the past with the present.Energy efficiency,water conservation,and environmental care inform the design and construction of an artistic,comfortable,easy to care for,and healthy home that enables universal access and age-in-place abilities.Following our specific design and construction directives,all of this is achievable at price points comparable to conventional construction.展开更多
文摘Smart energy monitoring and management system lays a foundation for the application and development of smart energy. However, in recent years, the work efficiency of smart energy development enterprises has generally been low, and there is an urgent need to improve the application efficiency, resilience and sustainability of smart energy monitoring and management system. Digital twin technology provides a data-centric solution to improve smart energy monitoring and management system, bringing an opportunity to transform passive infrastructure assets into data-centric systems. This paper expounds on the concept and key technologies of digital twin, and designs a smart energy monitoring and management system based on digital twin technology, which has dual significance for promoting the development of smart energy field and promoting the application of digital twin.
文摘This paper introduces the theory of system engineering on materiel into the management and monitoring of reliability, maintainability and supportability (RMS) activities in the aeronautic equipment's life cycle. In order to assure the science of RMS management, it analyzes the contents of RMS activities in a life cycle, provides the model of management and monitoring, and discusses the software realization of the management and monitoring system.
基金supported by the National Grand Fundamental Research Program of China (Nos. 2010CB328105, 2009CB320504)the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Programthe National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61070182,60973107, 60973144, 61173008, 61070021)
文摘The integrated modular avionics （IMA） architecture is an open standard in avionics industry, in which the number of functionalities implemented by software is greater than ever before. In the IMA architecture, the reliability of the avionics system is highly affected by the software applications. In order to enhance the fault tolerance feature with regard to software application failures, many industrial standards propose a layered health monitoring/fault management （HM/FM） scheme to periodically check the health status of software application processes and recover the malfunctioning software process whenever an error is located. In this paper, we make an analytical study of the HM/FM system for avionics application software. We use the stochastic Petri nets （SPN） to build a formal model of each component and present a method to combine the components together to form a complete system model with respect to three interlayer query strategies. We further investigate the effectiveness of these strategies in an illustrative system.
文摘Real time crowd anomaly detection and analyses has become an active and challenging area of research in computer vision since the last decade.The emerging need of crowd management and crowd monitoring for public safety has widen the countless paths of deep learning methodologies and architectures.Although,researchers have developed many sophisticated algorithms but still it is a challenging and tedious task to manage and monitor crowd in real time.The proposed research work focuses on detection of local and global anomaly detection of crowd.Fusion of spatial-temporal features assist in differentiation of feature trained using Mask R-CNN with Resnet101 as a backbone architecture for feature extraction.The data from,BIWI Walking Pedestrian dataset and the Crowds-By-Examples(CBE)dataset and Self-Generated dataset has been used for experimentation.The data deals with different situations like one set of data deals with normal situations like people walking and acting individually,in a group or in a dense crowd.The other set of data contains images four unique anomalies like fight,accident,explosion and people behaving normally.The simulated results show that in terms of precision and recall,our system performs well with Self-Generated dataset.Moreover,our system uses an early stopping mechanism,which allows our system to outperform to make our model efficient.That is why,on 89th epoch our system starts generating finest results.
文摘The topic investigated competition in marketing as a survival yardstick for small and medium enterprises （SMEs） in Nigeria. The objectives addressed by this study were： （1） identifying different types and intensity of competition that SMEs are exposed to along the life-cycle portfolio in Nigeria; （2） quantifying the strength of SMEs vis-a-vis some foreign enterprises in terms of market competition; and （3） proffering solutions on how best they could match competitively these foreign enterprises. Relevant models and theories were employed in literature to evolve detailed analysis of issues relating to the variables used in terms of competition in marketing and survival of juice-producing SMEs. Two hypotheses were investigated through the survey of 20 prominent Ikeja based SMEs using Cluster sampling, 5-points Likert summated rating scale was adopted, while Yard＇s formula with 95% confidence level and 5% error tolerance was used. Alternative form validity of the instrument was measured at 0.63 while its reliability was measured at Cronbach＇s alpha of 0.70. Pearson＇s product-moment correlation was used in testing hypothesis 1 while standard multiple regressions were used to test hypothesis 2. Findings revealed that there was strong relationship between survival of juice-producing SMEs with forms of competition on a firm＇s life-cycle; while competition had positive effects on survival components for the enterprises. It was concluded that since competition subsists in any firm＇s life-cycle, strategies to support operations for survival must be adopted. It was recommended that operators of SMEs have to monitor and manage competition as it affects their businesses positively and/or negatively.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42171291 and 42361144884)the Innovative Research Program of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals(CBAS2022IRP04)Joint HKU-CAS Laboratory for iEarth(313GJHZ2022074MI,E4F3050300)。
文摘Recent research has underscored the critical need for high-level global products to support comprehensive environmental monitoring and management[1],aligning closely with the objectives of the United Nations'Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs),particularly SDG 11.This goal focuses on transforming cities into inclusive,safe,resilient,and sustainable spaces.Understanding the relationship between urban expansion and population growth is essential for advancing sustainable urban development.However,the SDG11.3.1 indicator,despite having a clear evaluation method(the Ratio of Land Consumption Rate to Population Growth Rate(LCRPGR)),currently faces a significant challenge because of the lack of available data[2].This data gap hinders the comprehensive and effective measurement of urban land use efficiency,impacting the sustainable management of urban expansion.Therefore,there is an urgent need to acquire precise global-scale information on urban spatial distributions to address the data shortfall for the SDG 11.3.1 indicator and to facilitate improvements in the methods for expanding and monitoring this indicator.This process will assist in comprehensively assessing and managing the economic,social,and environmental impacts of urbanization,thereby supporting the objectives involved in sustainable urban development[3].
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61334003)
文摘A high EMS current-mode SPI interface for battery monitor IC（BMIC） is presented to form a daisychain bus configuration for the cascaded BMICs and the communication between the MCU and master BMIC.Based on analog and digital mixed filtering technique,the proposed daisy-chain can avoid the isolated communication issue in electromagnetic interference environment,and reduce the extensively required I/O ports of MCU,at the same time reduce the system cost.The proposed daisy-chain interface was introduced in a 6-ch battery monitor IC which was fabricated with 0.35μ m 30 V BCD process.The measurement result shows that the presented daisy-chain SPI interface achieves better EMS performance with different EMI injection while just consuming a total operation current up to 1 m A.
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFB2406000)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52027816).
文摘Lithium-ion batteries(LIBs)have been extensively used in electronic devices,electric vehicles,and energy storage systems due to their high energy density,environmental friendliness,and longevity.However,LIBs are sensitive to environmental conditions and prone to thermal runaway(TR),fire,and even explosion under conditions of mechanical,electrical,and/or thermal abuse.These unpredictable hazardous consequences significantly limit the commercial applications of LIBs.Thus,these safety issues need to be urgently addressed.In this review,the TR mechanisms and fire characteristics of LIBs are systematically discussed.Battery thermal safety monitoring methods,including the traditional technologies such as tempera-ture,voltage,and gas sensors,as well as the latest new technologies such as optical fiber sensors and ultrasonic imaging,are summarized.A battery thermal management system(BTMS)based on various cooling methods and new insights into the BTMS are briefly presented.According to the fire characteristics of LIBs,nonaqueous and water-based fire extinguishing agents are comprehensively summarized and compared,and the concept of an intelligent fire protection system is discussed.Based on the analysis of the thermal safety issues for preventing possible TRs and for extinguishing an already uncontrollable fire,a complete set of solutions for the thermal safety of LIBs is proposed.In this review,integrated strategies for intelligent detection and fire suppression of LIBs are presented and can provide theoretical guidance for key material design and intel-lectual safety systems to promote wide application of LIBs.
文摘“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world;indeed,it is the only thing that ever has.”-Margaret Mead My partner,Denise Donahue,and I,Simone du Boise,AIA,LEED AP,NCARB are,in essence,environmentalists.As licensed architects,certified general contractors,and LEED Accredited Professionals,we co-founded Cadmus Environmental Design-Build in spite of our belief that the world doesn’t really need another developer,builder,or architect,but rather because it most certainly needs environmental stewards.We also believe we have both a personal and professional responsibility to utilize our abilities and expertise to“Build A Better Environment.”Our Weatherford Place Community is a living expression of that commitment to comprehensive energy and water conservation,coupled with contributory assets that demand less and deliver more as a community.Our signature solution,the EcoCraft Hybrid^(TM)Home,provides a prescriptive method towards Net Zero Energy results.Our formula factors efficiency,conservation,and CARE(Clean,Alternative,Renewable,Energy)toward a result of zero demand.Synergistic systems and innovations that include passive solar,active solar PV,and solar thermal are key to measurable results and LEED Platinum Certifications.The EcoCraft Hybrid^(TM)Home evolves around a holistic approach that includes:low impact design;utilitarian driven and directed by the local vernacular;passive and active solar integration;engineered systems to enhance conservation measures;and in-situ analysis that integrates the past with the present.Energy efficiency,water conservation,and environmental care inform the design and construction of an artistic,comfortable,easy to care for,and healthy home that enables universal access and age-in-place abilities.Following our specific design and construction directives,all of this is achievable at price points comparable to conventional construction.
