Embodiments of the disclosure implement an application of an adaptive filter bank that is used to characterize the heat transfer of a volume in a thermal system, to estimate temperature and power consumption, and to improve performance characteristics in applications including optimal temperature control and diagnostics. In some embodiments, the adaptive filter bank is an iterative solution, comprised of a collection of adaptive filters defined to consume incident signals, produce an aggregate reference signal, estimate an error relative to an observed primary signal, and modify thermal coefficients to converge on a solution. For example, the incident signals are comprised of properties related to active, passive, solar irradiance, and unobserved heat transfer. A reference signal is an estimate of a primary signal, related to the rate of heat transfer or temperature change. Thereupon, the thermal coefficients are modified in an adaptive process to include gradient descent, which minimizes estimation error.

The invention relates to a smart thermal insulation box, including thermally insulated layers with mitered edges forming a thermally insulated space, and said space surrounded by corrugated material. The box also has externally viewable and operable temperature and humidity sensors, and optionally, a vibration sensor, where the sensors are preferably fixed inside the box to one side. One of the cardboard panels forming the top of the box which overlays the insulation layer has a window configured to overlay the display panel. An audible alert system may also be included to alert users to temperature or humidity excursions.

The present invention provides an automated system (100) for performing a cooling curve analysis for a plurality of quenchants wherein the system (100) comprises a quench probe (101) which is heated up to a maximum pre-defined temperature by an electric resistance furnace (102). Further, the quench probe (101) is automatically transferred and inserted into a quench vessel (107) after being heated to a maximum pre-defined temperature. The quench probe (101) is retained in the quench vessel (107) till the temperature of the quench probe (101) gradually decreases to a pre-defined minimum temperature as indicated by a Universal Serial Bus (USB) data logger (106) which logs the temperature of the quench probe (101) and indicates a graphical representation of the cooling curve analysis through the process automation tool installed on a computer hardware device.

The present invention relates to a system, method, and apparatus for monitoring food products. The system includes an integrated modular sensing device for monitoring food and environmentally sensitive industrial products, including a processor, at least two interfaces in communication with the processor and adapted to receive an electronic connection of at least two temperature sensor probes, at least one sensor in communication with the processor, the at least one sensor including at least one of the following: a motion sensor, a proximity sensor, a light sensor, or any combination thereof, and a wireless communication device programmed or configured to transmit food and environmentally sensitive industrial product data to at least one of a remote server and a remote device, and act as a gateway to receive sensory data from distributed sensors wirelessly and upload to cloud databases.

A method and system including an architecture to build a sensor device, data logger device, or network of sensor and/or data logger devices such that each element of the device or network contains all the information, including configuration information, commands, timing information, and math needed for higher-level elements to it without any configuration, software, firmware, or driver changes or updates required for the higher-level elements. This allows introduction of new devices or sensors in a simple plug-and-play manner. Derived sensors and alarms may act as independent devices that contain all of the information needed to extract data from lower-level sensors and perform math on it to produce results that appear to higher levels as though the derived sensor was itself a physical sensor.

A method and apparatus for automatically measuring and storing a various measured values of an item, or a sequence of measured values of one or more item(s) suitable for single-handed use by a user. In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile computing device with one or more sensors for determining when to measure and record a particular value of one or more items. The mobile computing device may automatically measure the values based on sensing a change in the temperature value or through using proximity as detected by one or more onboard sensors. Additionally, the mobile computing device may automatically measure the values based on coming within range of an external proximity device. In response to automatically measuring the values, the measured values are stored along with additional information for record keeping purposes.

A health of a server infrastructure is supervised by sending measurement requests, from a polling node to a server of the server infrastructure, at each of successive polling periods. Measurements received from the server in response to the measurement requests are stored in a database. A machine learning system is trained using accumulated measurements stored in the database to construct a prediction model for the server. Compliance of a latest measurement received from the server with the prediction model for the server is evaluated. A corrective action is taken if the latest measurement does not comply with the prediction model for the server. Measurements received from a group of servers may be aggregated and the machine learning system may construct a prediction model for the group of servers. Compliance to the prediction model may be evaluated for the group of servers.

An actively-powered temperature data logger patch with wireless data communication includes a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer, a non-adhesive release layer, and an electronics inlay disposed between the first and second substrate layers. The electronics inlay includes a sealed, flexible battery, and a flexible circuit having a temperature sensor. An outer face of the non-adhesive release layer is has release properties. A replaceable adhesive includes a carrier substrate, a structural adhesive coated on a first face and attached to the outer face of the non-adhesive release layer, and a skin-contact approved adhesive coated on a second opposite face. In another example, an auxiliary sleeve having an exterior surface with an adhesive configured to be removably applied to a subject, may partially enclose the temperature data logger patch in an internal compartment.

A system for monitoring the characteristics of a material by measuring electrical properties of a material uses a material monitoring device and a cloud database that relates electrical properties of a material to characteristics of that material. The aging and fermentation processes of wine and other alcohols can be monitored. The status and decomposition of foodstuffs can be monitored. The progress of chemical reactions in a vessel can be monitored. Water quality of water from a water conduit can be monitored. These characteristics can be indicated on a product monitoring device or can be communicated to an external computing device.

Provided is a sensor package in a refrigerator configured to provide information related to refrigerated food. The sensor package may include a body having a mark classified by a type of food allocated to the sensor package and indicating the type of food of a food to which the sensor package is coupled, a battery, an operation switch, a memory configured to store food information corresponding to the type of food corresponding to the mark, a sensor communication module that communicates with a display provided in the refrigerator, a sensing module that senses state information associated with the food, and a sensor control module that controls the sensor communication module to initiate communication between the sensor package and the display of the refrigerator based on the state information sensed by the sensing module.