A system and method of measuring and diagnosing the ride quality of an elevator system, including (a) operating the mobile device to acquire ride quality data, (b) operating the mobile device to transmit ride quality data to an external computing device, (c) operating the external computing device to compare the acquired ride quality data to pre-determined system data to create performance data, (d) operating the external computing device to perform a ride quality diagnostics based at least in part on the performance data, and (e) operating the external computing device to transmit the ride quality diagnostics to the mobile device.

A device to determine integrity of a surface includes an exterior housing to contain and protect a plurality of components. The components include an accelerometer to measure a change in acceleration of the device, a microcontroller to monitor measurement data from the accelerometer and determine the integrity of the surface based on the measurement data. A communication circuit transmits or displays information regarding the integrity of the surface from microcontroller. A battery powers the plurality of components.

System and method for detecting driving behavior include a method including sampling, at a preset time interval, acceleration data of a vehicle generated by an accelerometer along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The accelerometer is mounted on the vehicle. The method also includes determining an average acceleration along the longitudinal direction by averaging the sampled acceleration data over a first preset time period. The average acceleration is represented by a magnitude and a direction. The method further includes when the magnitude of the average acceleration is greater than a first preset magnitude, determining an aggressive driving behavior has occurred.

A calibration method of the positioning of an onboard device of a vehicle with axes (x, y, z), wherein the device comprises at least one accelerometric sensor (S) which detects the accelerations to which the vehicle is subjected along axes (x, y, z), angularly arranged with respect to the axes (x, y, z) of the vehicle with rotation angles (x, y, z). The accelerometric sensor (S) acquires the acceleration values generated by the force of gravity G acting on the vehicle when the vehicle is stopped. A transformation matrix (R) is determined, wherein a first rotation angle (x) and a second rotation angle (y) are derived on the basis of acceleration values of the force of gravity detected along the axes (x, y, z) when the vehicle is stopped, and a third rotation angle (z) is derived on the basis of the determined travel direction of the vehicle.

Disclosed is a method for producing a semiconductor device including a circuit board having a flexible resin layer that encapsulates a circuit component. The method may include a step of immersing a flexible substrate in an encapsulant, drying the encapsulant, and thereby encapsulating the circuit component with the encapsulant; and a step of curing the encapsulant, and thereby forming a flexible resin layer.

A method ascertains a state of a product in a plurality of time periods using a detection unit associated with the product. The method including the following for each of the time periods: setting a configuration of the detection unit at a beginning of the respective time period, the configuration different than a configuration available beforehand, and detecting at least one measured value using the detection unit in the respective time period on the basis of the set configuration.

A personal items network, comprising a plurality of items, each item having a wireless communications port for coupling in network with every other item, each item having a processor for determining if any other item in the network is no longer linked to the item, each item having an indicator for informing a user that an item has left the network, wherein a user may locate lost items. A method for locating lost personal items, comprising: linking at least two personal items together on a network; and depositing one or both of time and location information in an unlost item when one of the items is lost out of network.

Systems and methods are provided and include a modem control unit that is configured to receive a force signal from a force sensor representing an amount of impact force applied to a container. The modem is configured to determine based on the force signal, a bias value, a shock intensity of the force signal, and a shock severity of the force signal in response to a determination that the shock intensity is greater than a shock intensity threshold. The modem control unit is configured to determine an average shock severity based on a plurality of shock severity values and an absolute value indicator based on the bias value and the shock severity value, an average absolute value indicator based on the average shock severity and the bias value, and a presence of excessive mechanical shock based on the average absolute value indicator and based on the absolute value indicator.

Techniques are described for automated operations involving acquiring and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture video data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., 360 video at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, and capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations (e.g., by recording video, acceleration and/or other data from the mobile device as the user moves between the two viewing locations), creating a panorama image for each viewing location, analyzing the linking information to model the user's travel path and determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.

Aspects of the present disclosure generally pertain to a piata interaction device, system, and method. Aspects of the present disclosure more specifically are directed toward an electronic device for a piata that includes a housing, a power supply, a speaker, an impact sensor, an user interface, and a controller module configured to store a plurality of piata communications to emit at least one of the plurality of piata communications in response to the piata being hit. The electronic device is removably coupleable with at least one of the piata and the hitting stick. The electronic device may be reconfigured to output customized responses or from a wide library of audio is stored which can be selected from music, voice, instructions or sounds of various kinds. The electronic device may interact with third party devices via hosted application.