Dashboard

About: Dashboard is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1933 publications have been published within this topic receiving 14928 citations. The topic is also known as: control panel (engineering) & dash.

Automobile dashboard instrument display has discrete tachometer or tachometer display in fixed position and freely-programmed display region for digital and/or pictogram information

Abstract: The dashboard instrument display (1) has an analogue discrete tachometer (2), or an analogue tachometer provided by a freely-programmed display region of the instrument display of fixed size and position, with a further freely-programmed display region (5) used for providing digital and/or pictogram display information, e.g. using 2 separate display screens.

Automobile dashboard with instrument panel illumination - has printed lamp supply circuit applied to rear of panel

Abstract: The dashboard has a printed circuit carrying the supply circuit for the illumination system(16) directly in contact with the underside of the instrument panel (4), or alternatively the latter is formed of a material which allows the printed circuit to be directly applied to it. Pref. the instrument panel (4) fits across the front of a plastics housing (1) containing the various instruments and its peripheral edges support the lamps (16) providing the panel illuminations which are masked by a peripheral frame (18). This has colours diffusion panels in front of the lamps. A glass front plate (20) with a reflector shield (21) is fitted across the front of the panel (4).

Energy dashboard for real-time evaluation of a heat pump assisted solar thermal system

Abstract: Lotz, David A. M.S., May 2016. Energy Dashboard for Real-time Evaluation of a Heat Pump Assisted Solar Thermal System. Major Professor: William J. Hutzel The emergence of net-zero energy buildings, buildings that generate at least as much energy as they consume, has lead to greater use of renewable energy sources such as solar thermal energy. One example is a heat pump assisted solar thermal system, which uses solar thermal collectors with an electrical heat pump backup to supply space heating and domestic hot water. The complexity of such a system can be somewhat problematic for monitoring and maintaining a high level of performance. Therefore, an energy dashboard was developed to provide comprehensive and user friendly performance metrics for a solar heat pump system. Once developed, the energy dashboard was tested over a two-week period in order to determine the functionality of the dashboard program as well as the performance of the heating system itself. The results showed the importance of a user friendly display and how each metric could be used to better maintain and evaluate an energy system. In particular, Energy Factor (EF), which is the ratio of output energy (collected energy) to input energy (consumed energy), was a key metric for summarizing the performance of the heating system. Furthermore, the average EF of the solar heat pump system was 2.29, indicating an efficiency significantly higher than traditional electrical heating systems.

Monitoring system for automobile rear-view mirror blind spot

Abstract: The utility model discloses a monitoring system for an automobile rear-view mirror blind spot consisting of a central processing unit, a left blind spot indicator, a right blind spot indicator and radar sensors installed on the left and right rear-view mirrors of the automobile, wherein the central processing unit is connected to the left blind spot indicator, the right blind spot indicator and the radar sensor respectively, the left blind spot indicator and the right blind spot indicator are arranged on an automobile dashboard. According to the monitoring system for an automobile rear-view mirror blind spot, a driver can monitor whether a vehicle exists in the automobile rear-view mirror blind spot, keep alert through the blind spot indicators, and avoid collisions and accidents when an automobile change lanes or turn corners.

Intelligent car a/v system

Abstract: An intelligent car A/V system includes a main unit installed in a center console of a dashboard of a car and having built therein a control system, a power converter, a FM/AM receiver module, a digital TV receiver module, a DVD/SD/USB multimedia player module, a car camcorder, a reversing video display type driver assistance system, a GPS receiver module and an audio amplifier system, and a tablet PC electrically connectable to the control system of the main unit for operation under the control of the control system and having built therein an operating system, a satellite-based navigation system, a system operation control software, a wireless network communication system, a display system, a touch control system, a multimedia/entertainment DVD player system and an internet operating system.