A building manager includes a communications interface configured to receive information from a smart energy grid. The building manager further includes an integrated control layer configured to receive inputs from and to provide outputs to a plurality of building subsystems. The integrated control layer includes a plurality of control algorithm modules configured to process the inputs and to determine the outputs. The building manager further includes a fault detection and diagnostics layer configured to use statistical analysis on the inputs received from the integrated control layer to detect and diagnose faults. The building manager yet further includes a demand response layer configured to process the information received from the smart energy grid to determine adjustments to the plurality of control algorithms of the integrated control layer.

Distributed maximum power point tracking systems, structures, and processes are provided for power generation structures, such as for but not limited to a solar panel arrays. In an exemplary solar panel string structure, distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) modules are provided, such as integrated into or retrofitted for each solar panel. The DMPPT modules provide panel level control for startup, operation, monitoring, and shutdown, and further provide flexible design and operation for strings of multiple panels. The strings are typically linked in parallel to a combiner box, and then toward and enhanced inverter module, which is typically connected to a power grid. Enhanced inverters are controllable either locally or remotely, wherein system status is readily determined, and operation of one or more sections of the system are readily controlled. The system provides increased operation time, and increased power production and efficiency, over a wide range of operating conditions.

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for operating a network management system for a local energy network. The method may include determining a first operating strategy for an energy store of an electrical device of the local energy network based on a decision criterion using an electronic computing device of the network management system. The first operating strategy comprises a flexible storage strategy for storing energy in the energy store, the flexible storage strategy including a predefined flexibility criterion of the electrical device.

Provided is an angle bar for shelf assembly, the angle bar including a vertical frame in which a plurality of fastening grooves is formed and a horizontal frame on which a fastening protrusion is formed, wherein the plurality of fastening grooves, each including upper and lower grooves, are formed, the lower groove has a narrower width than the upper groove, and is connected to the upper groove with an inclination portion in between, wherein the fastening protrusion includes a convex portion having an inclination surface and first and second wing portions that are formed on lateral surfaces, respectively, of the convex portion, and wherein a distance between respective end portions of the first and second wing portions is smaller than a width of the upper groove and is larger than a width of the lower groove, and the convex portion has a wider width than the lower groove.

An Urban Intermodal Freight System is capable of transporting large volumes and tonnage of freight by containerized or other means on a mass transit rail system. It captures excess capacity in the existing mass transit rail infrastructure to move packages, parcels, and freight by using miniaturized intermodal cargo containers that are designed to integrate seamlessly with the existing transit infrastructure, while displacing delivery trucks from increasingly crowded city streets. By enabling inbound trucks to transfer their cargo to the Urban Intermodal Freight System at a city's outskirts, freight is delivered without trucks entering congested downtown areas, greatly alleviating traffic congestion, delays, greenhouse gas emissions and other negative environmental impacts. The Linear Loading Dock and Conveyor System may have other useful applications, for example to access a facility, building or vehicle, or in other circumstances where off street truck parking or loading docks are not available.

Provided is a method for building an urban canopy model based on tropical island climate characteristics. Adjacent regions are linked together, multiple streets of finite lengths within the regions affecting each other. Net radiation heat flux Q*=long-wave radiation+short-wave radiation. The tropical island urban canopy model considers the strong solar radiation and high temperature and high humidity climate characteristics of tropical cities and the influence of perennial monsoons on island cities, improves the methods of processing long-wave radiation flux, short-wave radiation flux, sensible and latent heat flux, street canyon wind velocity, heat storage flux, anthropogenic heat flux and horizontal heat flux on the basis of an urban canopy model, and has higher adaptability to the studies on the tropical island-type urban heat island effect.

An adjustable drain having catch basin defining: a pan with a pan seating portion along a pan perimeter surface; and a pan base that slopes downwardly and inwardly from the pan seating portion to a pan aperture for water flowthrough, an inner tube that is integral with the pan aperture having an inner tube peripheral wall that extends into an underside of the catch basin; and a pan lip extending upwardly from the pan perimeter surface to position the cover against the pan, the pan lip and inner tube are unitary with the pan to form a leakproof transition; an outer tube disposed below the pan base, the outer tube having an outer tube top end and an outer tube peripheral wall extending downwardly from the outer tube top end to an outer tube bottom end, wherein the inner and outer tubes are telescoping tubes.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a system for place recommendation in the smart city based on an Internet of Things. The method is implemented by a management platform. The method comprises: obtaining place information and pedestrian flow information of at least one place, the place information including a count of the at least one place, at least one distance between the places, and control measures for entrances and exits in each place, and control measures for passages, and the control measures include whether the entrances, exits, and passages in each place are closed; determining a plurality of candidate control schemes for the at least one place based on the place information and the pedestrian flow information of the at least one place; and determining a target control scheme of the at least one place based on the plurality of candidate control schemes.

A dispatching method for an electric-hydrogen energy system considering flexible hydrogen demand includes establishing an electric load flexibility equation, a power purchase and sale constraint equation, a renewable energy output constraint equation, a hydrogen load flexibility equation, an electricity-to-hydrogen production safety operation constraint equation and an electric power balance constraint equation, establishing an electric-hydrogen energy system dispatching model with the lowest operating cost of the electric-hydrogen energy system within the dispatching cycle as an objective function, and solving the electric-hydrogen energy system dispatching model to obtain an optimal dispatching result. As compared with the prior art, the present invention can effectively solve the problem of coordination between electric and hydrogen energy flows, while taking into account the flexibility of electric and hydrogen loads, further providing additional flexibility to the operation of the system.

The invention belongs to the technical field of interchange, in particular to an eight-way interchange. The following technical scheme is proposed, comprising a first forked road, a third forked road, a second forked road, a fourth forked road, a fifth forked road, a sixth forked road, a seventh forked road and an eighth forked road. The first forked road and the third forked road, the second forked road and the fourth forked road constitute a cross overpass, the first forked road and the third forked road constitute an upper two-way straight lane, the second forked road and the fourth forked road constitute a lower two-way straight lane. The invention has simple structures. Motor vehicles can complete straight driving, left turn, right turn and U-turn through upper straight two-way lanes, lower straight two-way lanes and eight right-turn lanes, realizing the interconnection of all eight forked roads in 16 traffic directions.