A method that includes obtaining a sensor reading from a sensor installed inside an underground vault and determining whether the sensor reading is indicative of an alarm state. When the sensor reading is indicative of the alarm state, the method obtains at least one new reading and determines whether the sensor reading includes sensor drift based at least in part on the at least one new reading. The alarm state is established when the sensor reading is determined not to include sensor drift. The sensor drift is removed when the sensor reading is determined to include sensor drift.

Methods for implementing power delivery transactions between a buyer and a seller of electrical energy supplied to an electrical grid by an integrated renewable energy source (RES) and energy storage system (ESS) of a RES-ESS facility are provided. Estimated total potential output of the RES is compared to a point of grid interconnect (POGI) limit to identify potential RES overgeneration, and the buyer is charged if potential RES overgeneration is less than potential overgeneration during one or more retrospective time windows. The method provides a basis for the RES-ESS facility owner to be paid for an estimated amount of energy that did not get stored as a result of a grid operator not fully discharging an ESS prior to the start of a new day.

Methods for controlling an integrated renewable energy source (RES) and energy storage system (ESS) of a RES-ESS facility having a point of grid interconnect (POGI) limit are provided. A forecast for energy production of the RES as well as a state of charge (SOC) schedule are used to calculate a SOC target-based POGI cap that is less than the POGI limit, with the SOC target-based POGI cap representing as low a peak power output value as possible while still ensuring satisfaction of the SOC schedule. The forecasted RES production, SOC schedule, and SOC target-based POGI cap are used to generate a time-varying charge/discharge control signal for the ESS that ensures the SOC schedule is satisfied.

A heater alarm and control module includes a main processor of the heater alarm and control module, a heater alarm and control circuit, and a heater temperature controlling module. The heater temperature control module includes n heater temperature controllers. The main processor is connected to the heater temperature control module through the heater alarm and control circuit. The heater temperature controller includes an optically coupled solid-state relay including a light-emitting diode and a power switch; and a photocoupler including a light-emitting diode and a phototriode; and a microprocessor connected to the optically coupled solid-state relay and the photocoupler. The main processor provides a control signal to the heater temperature control module. The heater alarm and control module has a simple structure, and cam change multiple heater temperature set points, thereby easily changing heater temperature settings after installation, enabling activation of a dual operating temperature mode, and saving energy.

Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media related to a display construct coupled to a structure (e.g., a vision window). The structure can be a supportive structure such as a fixture. The display construct is configured to facilitate media display and is at least partially transparent. The vision window may be a tintable window, e.g., a window in which its tint is electrically controllable (e.g., an electrochromic window). Various interactive capabilities with the display construct are disclosed (e.g., via a touch screen).

A communication adapter for collecting various kinds of information from a water-heating system and providing the information to an administration center via a wireless LAN router functions as an access point for providing a direct wireless communication with a smartphone; in response to a request from the smartphone via the direct wireless communication, it provides pairing authentication information to the smartphone; in response to a request from the smartphone, it initializes the wireless LAN connection information for the wireless LAN router to disconnect the wireless link to the wireless LAN router; and, when the wireless LAN connection information is set by its WPS function, it establishes a wireless link to the wireless LAN router and transmits the pairing authentication information to the administration center via the wireless LAN router.

Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and mobile robots for providing information to a pedestrian. In some examples, a mobile robot includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains, via a sensor, sensing data that indicates an ambient environment of the mobile robot. The processing circuitry determines path indication information according to the sensing data. The path indication information includes a planned path of the mobile robot. The processing circuitry projects the path indication information on a target projection surface.

A system for automated equipment cabinet leveling may include a foot leveling device for each foot of an equipment cabinet, each foot leveling device comprising a drive gear and a worm gear; a motor for each foot leveling device, each motor driving the worm gear of one of the foot leveling devices; a controller controlling the operation of each motor; and a sensor positioned on a portion of the equipment cabinet to be leveled that detects an orientation of the equipment cabinet and provides orientation data to the controller. The foot leveling device may interface with a foot shaft of the cabinet foot by a drive shaft driven by the drive gear, and the controller may drive at least one of motors to level the surface of the equipment cabinet based on the orientation data by extending or retracting at least one of the cabinet feet.

A tintable window is described having a tintable coating, e.g., an electrochromic device coating, for regulating light transmitted through the window. In some embodiments, the window has a transparent display in the window's viewable region. Transparent displays may be substantially transparent when not in use, or when the window is viewed in a direction facing away from the transparent display. Windows may have sensors for receiving user commands and/or for monitoring environmental conditions. Transparent displays can display graphical user interfaces to, e.g., control window functions. Windows, as described herein, offer an alternative display to conventional projectors, TVs, and monitors. Windows may also be configured to receive, transmit, or block wireless communications from passing through the window. A window control system may share computational resources between controllers (e.g., at different windows). In some cases, the computational resources of the window control system are utilized by other building systems and devices.

A device for providing nicotine replacement therapy may be provided. The device may comprise a dispenser for dispensing a nicotine formulation. The device may comprise an actuating member mounted to actuate the dispenser. The device may comprise a lockout mechanism that may be movable between an operative position that may allow the actuating member to move so as to actuate the dispenser, and a non-operative position that may prevent the actuating member from moving. The device may comprise a processor. The processor may be configured to determine an amount of nicotine that was previously consumed by a user. The processor may be configured to send a lockout mechanism signal to the lockout mechanism that causes the lockout mechanism to move to the non-operative position.