An integrated front-of-house and back-of-house restaurant operations system integrates automated and manual restaurant operations into an order-based system. The system interfaces with disparate devices and systems to provide order-based monitoring and control of operations within an establishment.

In the conventional distributed control system, since each control device updates the data area at a timing when a control packet is received, in a case where there is a difference in communication delay between the control devices or in a case where the communication delay includes jitter, it is difficult to match the contents of data in all the control devices in a case of focusing on a certain moment during system operation. Therefore, depending on the start timing of a control application, the control application operates on the basis of different data between the control devices, thus limiting control performance improvement. Accordingly, time slots on the network are allocated according to the result of a calculation unit, and a cyclic memory synchronization update unit synchronizes the timing of reflecting data in the input/output and the cyclic memory and the timing of using data of a cyclic memory.

A method via which it is possible to identify a limited operator control is identified, monitoring of a technical plant is performed and in which a process is controlled via a process control system that includes at least two operator station servers and at least one operator station client, wherein process objects associated with the process are distributed to process images of different operator station servers of the process control system, where for process monitoring, a graphical user interface for displaying plant images with symbols associated with the process objects is provided on the operator station client.

A Dielectric Energy Storage System (DESS), a Dielectric Energy Storage System Management System (DESS-MS), and method that stores energy for a wide variety of applications.

An intelligent electronic device (IED) may obtain a voltage measurement matrix based on an arrangement of a transformer in a power system. The TED may obtain a delta connection compensating angle based on the location of the circuit breaker and the transformer arrangement. The IED may obtain voltage measurements of the transformer. The TED may determine a residual flux value of the transformer based at least in part on the voltage measurements, the voltage measurement matrix and the delta connection compensating angle. The TED may send a signal to a circuit breaker of the transformer to connect the transformer to the power system based at least in part on the system voltage and residual flux value.

A method for diagnosing a vehicle electrical system of a vehicle including a plurality of intercommunicating arithmetic logic units. A diagnostic application is executed on one arithmetic logic unit of the plurality of arithmetic logic units. The diagnostic application receives a diagnostic inquiry from an external diagnostic unit. The diagnostic inquiry is analyzed by the diagnostic application. Based on the content of the diagnostic inquiry, the diagnostic application sends data to at least one arithmetic logic unit and/or sends a diagnostic response to the external diagnostic unit.

An application processor receives first and safety state information from first and second microcontrollers, and respective first and second sets of bytes forming a first identifier of the first microcontroller and a second identifier of the second microcontroller. The processor concatenates a safety message including the first and second safety state information, the safety message including the first set of bytes and the second set of bytes. The processor transmits the safety message to a second application processor of a safety controller, which separates, the first set of bytes and the second set of bytes, compares at least one of the first set of bytes and the second set of bytes to a data structure of known microcontroller identifiers, and verifies the safety state information based on identifying a match.

An output controller obtains a pair of safety state inputs, and, at each of a first microcontroller and the second microcontroller determines whether the pair of safety state inputs both show an unasserted state. Responsive to determining that the pair of safety state inputs both show an unasserted state, the output controller determining a normal state, and otherwise the output controller determines a safe state. The output controller outputs a binary software command reflecting either a normal state or a safe state, and converts the binary software command to a hardware command that maintains the state of voltage of a circuit where the binary software command reflects a normal state and otherwise switches to a safe state. The controller compares readback output values from the two microcontrollers, and generates an output therefrom.

A microcontroller receives, from a device, an input signal having a value. The first microcontroller generates an adjusted value by adjusting the value to an adjusted value within a range of tolerance of a state determination system, and determines a first range of the adjusted value, the first range being within one of an asserted range, an unasserted range, or a fault range. The first microcontroller compares the first range to a second range, the second range derived based on one or more of a different input signal or a different microcontroller, and determines a result of the comparison, the result being an asserted state where the first range and the second range both are within an asserted range, the result being an unasserted state where both ranges are within an unasserted range, and the result otherwise being a fault state, and outputs the result to an output controller.

A device operating in a normal mode receives a request to switch to a functional safety mode, the request including a selection of a safety actuator and one or more of a plurality of secondary actuators. Responsive to receiving the request, the device transmits a copy of a safety message from the safety actuator to a first microcontroller to a second microcontroller. The device validates the safety message at the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller, the validation resulting in first validation values from the first microcontroller and second validation values from the second microcontroller. The device validates the first validation values against the second validation values, and, responsive to successfully validating the safety message at the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller, and successfully validating the first validation values against the second validation values, commands the device to transition from the normal mode to the functional safety mode.