Abstract:
A method for behavioristic-format coding of quantitative resource data for control, planning and communication purposes in line businesses, utilities, etc. An individual coding unit can be used in a specific real-time object-oriented behavioristic control loop, and provide coherent, flexible data for control, planning, budgeting and forecasting, using a digital Tough Stochastic Decomposition (TSD) principle as the general behavioristic method. In accordance with the TSD method, the input raw data is converted in a standard rectangular digital matrix format, in which the 24-hour calendar day is divided into four 6-hour intervals. The coding apparatus is connected to primary instrumentation and provides total distributed raw data group coding, in non-programmable fashion, providing four digital-coded numbers a day, as four time history files. The coding apparatus digital output provides data packets for a distributed automation protocol over a data highway to a plurality of computing stations, where the behavioristic-format coded data is available for analysis and object-oriented programming using classic procedures such as regression and simplex optimization. The coding apparatus is also usable in local process control applications, including electrical energy demand and loss minimization. In addition, a load-leveling approximation and individual energy conservation technique is achieved via a new matrix game billing format.
Abstract:
A control apparatus provided as a dedicated control unit which enables a standard software protocol in digital qualitative analog process data presentation, useful in line businesses and utilities, etc., which use SI basic and derived analog units such as temperature, voltage, current, pressure, speed, velocity, radiation, vibration, noise and other analog measurements units. The individual data controller operates based on a digital Discrete Economic Modulation (DEM) principle, which is a general method introduced for averaging within a special behavioristic control loop and provides coherent, flexible data for monitoring, on-line decision making and discrete optimization using classic procedures such as regression and the simplex method. The raw data input is converted in accordance with the DEM method, averaged four times a day, and stored in a buffer as a standard rectangular matrix digital format in which the 24-hour calendar day is divided into four 6-hour disjointed segments/half-periods, to provide four mean numbers per calendar day or one number a day for each 6-hour data file, as four time history files for coherent and flexible analysis without time lag and PC-oriented processing, as a standard protocol model for data highway networks.
Abstract:
A microprocessor-based apparatus provided as a dedicated control unit, which enables a standard software protocol to provide a digital presentation of security criteria associated with stable analog process data relating to recurrent processes in businesses and utilities. The general method introduced here provides security criteria data in two functional control loops: First, the I-criterion provides continuous monitoring of the input analog signal and interruptions thereof, which are presented in time units. Second, the Q-criterion provides the input analog signal conversion in digital form, and identifies the signal quality by determining whether it falls within or deviates from a standard tolerance range. In addition, a stochastic signal decomposition is performed to provide four 6-hour disjoint data files within a behavioristic control loop/each calendar day. The final output document is a rectangular digital format which can be adequately presented in printed or written form, enabling a fast response for local and strategic decision-making, including end user's feedback and use in a capable of standard data highway protocol.