The possibility of revitalization of abandoned or insufficiently used industrial and commercial facilities and areas in towns, known as brownfield incentives, is analyzed in the paper. These facilities and areas are most often situated in central parts of towns, and their revitalisation results in creation of new facilities which often become symbols or landmarks of such towns. The meaning of b...

component architectures are getting more popular. Industrial and academic communities try to design facilities for description of component architectures. In the SOFA/DCUP project, the description of the architecture is based on the CDL (component definition language), that embodies the behavioral protocols. The behavioral protocols of components describe the behavior of the system. One of the ...

Defects in complex industrial facilities such as engines, power plants, or energy infrastructure are difficult to diagnose, not only because of the complexity of the machinery, but also because of its spatial structure. Large energy infrastructure, for instance, stretches over vast areas, so that human inspection and diagnosis would take several months. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) provide a ...

In the following article we point out the potentials of semantic technologies for an application in the area of business analytics. Semantic Business Analytics as understood by the operators of a power plant means to provide interactive guidelines to advise the operator to take the right steps, and to provide a mechanism to learn from past incidents. Therefore a sensor-based ontology represents...

THE PURPOSE. Conduct a study to improve the reliability of forecasting magnitude power consumption and losses at an industrial enterprise. METHODS. Methods are used determine predict parameters electricity facilities. RESULTS. To clarify losses, it is proposed use coefficients that take into account type load curves show ratio values sum squares currents (powers) variable curve average (powers)...

Various communication protocols are used within a typical industrial facility including Modbus RTU, DeviceNet and Profibus. These protocols used over the years have been in a Master-Slave configuration. Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) are slaves to single or multiple masters with one-way communication with the IED acting as a data/controlled node to the master device. Control is implement...

Epidemiologic data suggest that schools and daycare facilities likely play a major role in the dissemination of influenza. Pathogen transmission within such small, inhomogenously mixed populations is difficult to model using traditional approaches. We developed simulation based mathematical tool to investigate the effects of social contact networks on pathogen dissemination in a setting analogo...