A portable traffic data gathering apparatus employs a recirculating memory and common scanning and control circuitry for accumulating both peg count and usage data in a form suitable for transmission to a central point for processing by electronic data processing equipment. Dynamic and static storage are interleaved in the memory to permit the accumulation of one period of data concurrently with the transmission of a previously accumulated period of data. Peg count is obtained by comparing curre...

A method for establishing a correspondence between chemical use and the process where use occurs. The process is assigned a process identification number (PIN). After chemicals have been assigned into an inventory, the chemicals are assigned to the process and a report is generated reporting the chemical use corresponding to the process.

When emergency button (11) of mobile unit (1) of a person who has suddenly fallen ill or other emergency, locational signals representing its own location and ID data are transmitted to receiver (21) of management unit (2) installed in the caddie master's office or at other locations. Based on the locational signals from receiver (21), camera controller component (26) selects camera (27.sub.1).about.(27.sub.n), (27.sub.c) and controls panning and tilting of the selected camera, thereby adjusting...

A centralized remote-supervisory system and a data acquisition method therefor, wherein the system includes a central processing unit and a plurality of terminal units connected to the central processing unit, each terminal unit including sensors. The central processing unit of the system provides a criterion value corresponding to each of a plurality of time zones, and transmitting the criterion value to the terminal unit, wherein the criterion value is utilized for forming a threshold level us...

A system and apparatus for monitoring physical phenomena and changes in structures which includes a plurality of programmable intelligent transducers arranged in an array, each of which is uniquely addressable by a remote controller to perform its intended measurement functions, translate the analog measurement obtained into digital signals and transmit same to the controller. The monitoring is selective to each individual intelligent transducer. The intelligent transducers combine measurement f...

A rule based capacity management system for an inter office facility is provided. The system includes a presentation layer for providing a graphical user interface to a user. The presentation layer is capable of receiving one or more rules from the user and for providing one or more analytical reports of the equipment based on the rules. The system also includes a data layer for storing rules, including the rules received from the user, and for connecting to an inventory system such as trunks in...

A system and method are provided for scheduling the emptying or replacement of a waste container based on the fullness of the container or the usage of the container. These factors may be considered to determine when the waste container will become completely full. Additionally, the system and method may consider the customer preferences or the limitations of the waste hauler. All of these factors may be considered to determine an optimal time for the waste container to be emptied or replaced. T...

An apparatus and method are provided for monitoring the voltage available in each domain of multiple voltage domains of a partitioned electronic chip. The apparatus comprises a single conductive link coupled to the chip, and further comprises a domain selection network having a single output and a plurality of switchable inputs, the output being connected to the single conductive link, and two inputs being connected to monitor respective voltage levels of two of the plurality of voltage domains....

In a support service for computing devices or software (or other service), a determination is made based on an incident report that additional data is needed. A first template is chosen from a set of templates and that chosen first template is customized for the particular incident to create a data collection plan. The data collection plan includes a set of data collection items. The data collection plan is forwarded to a user client device associated with the incident report. At the user client...

A multi-port data collection system serves as a PC real-time burn-in testing system. It is used to overcome the conventional burn-in system disadvantages of excessive man-power requirements and low efficiency. The system includes a monitoring device to real-time monitor the burn-in states of a plurality of PCs undergoing testing. Each PC being tested executes a program to perform the burn-in test and generate test data representing the test results. After collecting the data, the monitoring devi...