Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for performing insurance property loss mitigation processes based on an event driven probable roof loss confidence score based on a particular weather event, the event driven probable roof loss confidence score associated with a roof of a building. An example method may include receiving a base-line probable roof loss confidence score for the building. The method may further include receiving weather data associated with the particular weather event, that occurred in the geographic area of the building, and hail data associated with the particular weather event. The method also may include estimating at least one attribute of the one or more attributes, and generating the event driven probable roof loss confidence score based on the base-line probable roof loss confidence score, the weather data, the hail data, and the at least one estimated attribute.

Scale habitable units are disclosed for use in marine environments, such as the open sea, which are inexpensive to assemble and maintain, while providing habitable space.

To provide a flood detection technique with which a breakdown is less likely to occur over a long period, maintenance costs are low, and the occurrence of an abnormal water level is less likely to be erroneously determined. An inundation detection device detects a received signal strength that is the strength of a received response signal received from an RF sensor installed at a flood detection location, detects a dispersion within a specific time, detects a normal reception rate, and outputs a flood detection signal in a case where the dispersion is greater than or equal to a specific threshold and the normal reception rate is less than or equal to a specific threshold.

A system and method for providing earthquake damage and collapse warning by a warning device is disclosed. The warning device is communicatively connected to a one or more client devices using a communications network. The warning device includes an input sensor for generating signals of crack formation within a structure, a message generator and transmitter for sending an warning message, a memory having instructions stored thereon; and a processor configured to execute the instructions on the memory to cause the waring device to receive an input signal from the input sensor, characterize the input signal using its amplitude, duration, location and direction, and frequency, identify the input signal as being a result of an earthquake, generate a warning message identifying detection of an event, and transmit the warning message to the one or more client devices over the communications network.

User-configurable weather warning apparatuses, and methods for providing and configuring user-configurable weather warning apparatuses are presented. For example, according to one aspect, an apparatus comprising a processor and a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver configured to receive a first Special Area Message Encoding (SAME) message may be provided. The processor may be configured to, responsive to a user preference to trigger an alert system only in the event of a tornado warning: determine whether the first SAME message indicates a tornado warning; and in response to determining that the first SAME message indicates a tornado warning, trigger the alert system.

Disclosed is a method and device suitable for detection of and warning against tsunamis. The device is located in the water at sea. The device includes a vessel, a sensor for measuring a physical quantity of the surrounding water, a control unit inside the vessel and operatively connected to the sensor, and a communication element including a transmitter for communicating with an external receiver that the predetermined condition relating to the physical quantity is fulfilled. The device further includes a ballast tank inside the vessel. The interior of the ballast tank is connected to the outside of the vessel. A pump pumps water from the ballast tank to outside the vessel. The overall density of the device exceeds the density of the surrounding water when the ballast tank is filled, and is less than the density of the surrounding water when the ballast tank is empty of water.

The present invention provides a steel structure cooling tower, including a truss system, a hyperbolic enclosure plate system and an opening-closing system. Hoop trusses and meridional trusses are connected crisscross to form a force transfer structure of the steel structure cooling tower, thereby improving the overall stability of a tower body of the cooling tower and reducing the wind pressure on the tower body. An enclosure plate is mounted on the hoop truss by an enclosure plate bracket assembly, the opening-closing system is laid on the hoop truss, and a wind and rain sensor is installed on a hoop truss on the top of the tower body of the cooling tower. When typhoon rain exceeds a limiting value, an opening-closing posture of the hyperbolic enclosure plate is adjusted, so that the steel structure cooling tower can open the enclosure plate to reduce a wind load acting on the tower body.

A rotary drive machine for the installation of helical pile sections through installation openings in a slab floor inside of a building perimeter. A vertical frame having an upper end and an open lower end is positioned over an installation opening through which it is desired to rotationally install a helical pile section, and the vertical frame anchored to the slab floor. A rotary power means, attached to the helical pile section moves along a vertical movement guide and is driven by a vertical actuator to rotationally and vertically drive the helical section into the ground. A method of use is also disclosed.

A transportable shelter includes a frame, an inner liner, and an outer liner. A plurality of interconnecting members of the frame are connected to create a fixed structural element, at least one end structural element, and a plurality of purlin portions. The purlin portions attach the fixed structural element to a first end structural element. The fixed structural element has a first inner track and a first outer track, and the first end structural element has a second inner track and a second outer track. The inner liner attaches to the first and second inner tracks, and the outer panel attaches to the first and second outer tracks. A dead-air space exists between the inner liner and the outer panel when the frame is assembled and the inner liner and the outer panel are connected to both the fixed structural element and the first end structural element.