A mobile environmental sensor system includes a first mobile environmental sensor, a controller, and a network transmitter disposed on a transport unit. The controller is in electronic communication with the first mobile environmental sensor and the network transmitter. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to trigger a measurement from the first mobile environmental sensor. A sensed value is received from the first mobile environmental sensor. The processor compares the sensed value as received from the first mobile environmental sensor to a reference sensed value received by the controller via the network transmitter. The processor calibrates the first mobile environmental sensor based on the comparison of the sensed value as received and the reference sensed value as received. The calibration includes a normalization between the sensed value as received and the reference sensed value as received. The normalization includes a time dependent component.

A method for climate control, in which an overall mass flow of air is guided through an auxiliary heater, which has multiple zones. The overall mass flow is divided after flowing through the auxiliary heater into multiple partial mass flows, and an nth partial mass flow respectively flows out of an nth zone. A value of at least one flow parameter of an nth partial mass flow is ascertained, and at least one manipulated variable of a respective nth zone is set in dependence on the value of the at least one flow parameter. Overheating of at least one zone of the auxiliary heater is avoided.

Disclosed is a control method of a damper of a variable-air-volume air distributor and a control system thereof, mainly comprising a volume adjusting valve for the variable-air-volume air distributor, a valve actuator, a BP neural network-based main controller, a data collector and a user operation panel. The control method thereof is to use, mainly based on the collected room temperature and static pressure at the inlet of the air distributor, the BP neural network predictive model to establish a nonlinear model of temperature & static pressure and valve opening, perform training and optimization, and optimize the output valve opening to obtain and label an optimal value as the set value of the controller to control the action of the valve actuator, thereby realizing an automatic variable air volume.

A vehicle air conditioning device is provided which is capable of accurately judging the need for temperature regulation of an object of temperature regulation mounted in a vehicle and efficiently performing temperature regulation. A compressor 2 to compress a refrigerant, an indoor heat exchanger (radiator 4 and heat absorber 9) for exchanging heat between air supplied to a vehicle interior and the refrigerant, an outdoor heat exchanger 7 disposed outside the vehicle interior, and a control device 11 are provided to perform air conditioning of the vehicle interior. An equipment temperature adjusting device 61 for adjusting the temperature of the object of temperature regulation mounted in the vehicle is provided. The control device controls the equipment temperature adjusting device 61 on the basis of a gradient (ΔT.sub.w) of a change in an index indicating the temperature of the object of temperature regulation.

A glass panel apparatus is provided. The glass panel apparatus includes an outer glass pane comprising a low-e coating on a side facing the inner glass pane, an inner glass pane comprising a low-e coating on a side facing the outer glass pane, a gap between the inner glass pane and the outer glass pane, the gap comprising a vacuum, and a heating element configured to heat the inner glass pane.

An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes a plurality of infrared image sensors configured to take images of a vehicle room to detect infrared rays radiated from vehicle occupants, and an analysis unit configured to analyze vehicle occupant information based on the images taken by the infrared image sensors. The infrared image sensors are installed in front upper regions of the vehicle room so as to take images of different imaging areas.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for providing transportation container temperature control. A system for transportation container temperature control comprises: a plurality of insulated compartments on a motored vehicle, each of the plurality of insulated compartments being configured to hold one or more items during transport, a temperature regulating system, a communication device, and a control circuit. The control circuit being configured to: receive, via the communication device, a plurality of target temperatures each associated with an insulated compartment of the plurality of insulated compartments, determine current temperatures in each of the plurality of insulated compartments, and for each insulated compartment of the plurality of insulated compartments, cause the temperature regulating system to affect a temperature inside the insulated compartment based on a current temperature and a target temperature of the plurality of target temperatures associated with the insulated compartment.

A heat control method for a heat control device, particularly for a vehicle interior, is disclosed. The method involves detecting, delimiting and positioning various parts of the body of an occupant (U), measuring thermal or physiological parameters regarding various parts of the body of the occupant (U) and/or the vehicle interior around the occupant (U), establishing a plurality of thermal comfort indices (I.sub.n), each thermal comfort index (I.sub.n) corresponding to one of the parts of the body of the occupant (U) taking into account a feeling of warmth or of cold in the associated body part, and of which the absolute value is at a minimum in a comfortable situation, and regulating the operation of a heat control device (3) to minimize a sum of the absolute values of the comfort indices (Σ|I.sub.n|) in order to create a regulated thermal environment around the occupant (U).

In one embodiment, a vehicle defogging system may include a side mirror defogger, one or more other vehicle defoggers, one or more sensors, and a control unit. The side mirror defogger is independently controllable from the one or more other vehicle defoggers. The one or more sensors are configured to output a signal indicative a substance on a side mirror of a vehicle. The control unit is configured to detect the substance on the side mirror based on the signal of the one or more sensors, and activate the side mirror defogger in response to detecting the substance on the side mirror.

The lidar device includes a multimode laser light source, a narrow-band filter for converting output laser light of the multimode laser light source into narrow-band laser light, an edge filter for receiving backscattered light generated when a target (Tgt) in an external space backscatters the narrow-band laser light, a light detection circuit for detecting a transmission light signal output by the edge filter and outputting an electric signal, and a signal processing unit for measuring at least a relative speed of the target (Tgt) on the basis of the electric signal. The light transmission characteristic of the narrow-band filter has a first narrow-band spectrum that forms a peak of light transmittance at a predetermined light transmission frequency, and the light transmission characteristic of the edge filter has a second narrow-band spectrum having an edge portion forming a positive or negative gradient of light transmittance at the light transmission frequency.