An underwater storage tank having a flexible multilayer tank containing a working liquid is provided. The flexible multilayer tank has at least one internal electrical insulating layer in contact with the working fluid, at least one external electrical insulating layer in contact with sea water, and at least one intermediate electric conductive layer sealed between the at least one internal electrical insulating layer and the at least one external electrical insulating layer. At least one first electrical connection means is connected to the at least one intermediate electric conductive layer, the least one first electrical connection means being electrically connectable to an electrical grounded measurement instrument to assess physical integrity of the flexible multilayer tank.

A building control system includes a building controller and a user interface device operatively coupled to the building controller. The building controller is wall mountable and includes a plurality of ports for controlling one or more points that are associated with one or more plants of a building. The building controller controls the one or more points in accordance with one or more programmable point control values that are associated with one or more points. The user interface device provides a user interface for operating the building controller and is configured to display a plurality of menu screens on a display that allow a user to view one or more of the points, change the programmable control value for one or more of the points, and view one or more alarms generated by the building controller for one or more of the points.

Methods and devices for detecting a defect in a rail of a railway track, include at least two sensors selected from among magneto-acoustic and/or piezoelectric and/or magnetostrictive transducers; each sensor being associated with a timestamping circuit of a GNSS satellite positioning system; a measuring circuit for measuring, by way of the sensors, the acousto-elastic waves propagating in the rail, the wave or signal measurements being timestamped. Some developments describe notably active and passive modes; the use of train crossings; the emission of waves; the determination of the existence and then of the position and finally the characterization of the defect, where applicable; preferred placements for installing the sensors; the use of inter-correlation, passive inverse filter or correlation of coda of correlation methods; the use of mobile robots and/or drones; the use of artificial noise sources.

Methods and devices for detecting a defect in a rail of a railway track, include at least two sensors selected from among magneto-acoustic and/or piezoelectric and/or magnetostrictive transducers; each sensor being associated with a timestamping circuit of a GNSS satellite positioning system; a measuring circuit for measuring, by way of the sensors, the acousto-elastic waves propagating in the rail, the wave or signal measurements being timestamped. Some developments describe notably active and passive modes; the use of train crossings; the emission of waves; the determination of the existence and then of the position and finally the characterization of the defect, where applicable; preferred placements for installing the sensors; the use of inter-correlation, passive inverse filter or correlation of coda of correlation methods; the use of mobile robots and/or drones; the use of artificial noise sources.

There is provided a server and a system capable of enabling an operator of a remote operating device to recognize which remote operating device remotely operates a work machine displayed on an output interface constituting the remote operating device. For example, a first work environment image indicating a situation of a work site acquired through an image pickup device 412 loaded on a work machine 40 is outputted on an output interface 220 constituting each of a plurality of remote operating devices 20.

A video camera system including: one or more video cameras; a video recorder in communication with each of the one or more video cameras; a video analytics module, the video analytics module being a computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: obtaining video parameters of a plurality of video frames received at the video recorder, the plurality of video frames being transmitted from the one or more video cameras to the video recorder; determining an abnormality within the video parameters; and identifying a malfunctioning video camera of the one or more video cameras that produced the abnormality within the video parameters.

A system and method for monitoring an elevator operating environment. The system for monitoring the elevator operating environment includes at least one local monitoring device, a cloud computing platform, and at least one alarm module associated with the local monitoring device, wherein, each of the local monitoring devices is arranged in an operating area and is configured to: determine heat index based on temperature data and humidity data of the operating area, and output a first warning message locally; and transmit the temperature data and humidity data to the cloud computing platform regularly or irregularly, the cloud computing platform is configured to send the temperature data and humidity data to the alarm module regularly or irregularly, and the alarm module is configured to generate a third warning message based on the temperature data and humidity data and present the third warning message.

A monitoring system for an agricultural sprayer includes a spray nozzle, a pressure sensor, a flow rate sensor, and control circuitry. The spray nozzle is configured to generate a spray of a fluid, the pressure sensor is adjacent to the spray nozzle and is configured to measure a pressure of the fluid sprayed by the spray nozzle, and the flow rate sensor is adjacent to the spray nozzle and is configured to measure a flow rate of the fluid sprayed by the spray nozzle. The control circuitry is configured to receive the measured pressure from the pressure sensor, receive the measured flow rate from the flow rate sensor, and cause a user interface to display the measured pressure and the measured flow rate. Related methods and systems are also disclosed.

A device for monitoring temperature of a beverage and for communicating data, the device comprising: a housing portion configured to be oriented adjacent to a drink in a drink sleeve; a thermal sensor coupled to said housing portion and oriented to take temperature readings of the drink in the sleeve; and a wireless transceiver coupled to said thermal sensor and configured to transmit data representative of a temperature condition.

A submersion sensor for detecting submersion in a fluid is disclosed. The submersion sensor includes at least one float member and at least one sink member. The submersion sensor includes force sensors positioned at distal ends of each of the at least one float member and the at least one sink member. Further, the submersion sensor includes a controller. The controller determines submersion of the submersion sensor upon obtaining signals from the force sensors corresponding to opposite directional movement of the at least one float member and the at least one sink member in the fluid.