Selected Publications
Research and patents
Log and cant optimization
Douglas G. Strasky, Gerald David Larson, Dimitri Marinakis, Stephen Doiel, Robert Arnold, Ryan Munion
Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for cutting wood workpieces, such as logs and cants, into desired products. In various embodiments, after a log is chipped into a cant, the cant may be scanned and re-optimized based on the new scan data and information about the source log…
View patentMethod and system for valuation of a pool of real estate assets
Adam Gant, Dimitri Marinakis, Ashlin Richardson
A method and system for evaluation of a pool of real estate assets is disclosed. The method may include a threefold hierarchy of models to encompass geospatiotemporal fluctuations in price for a plurality of assets, at the appropriate comprehensively representative microscopic, mesoscopic, and…
View patentMethod and system for managing an electrical distribution system in a facility
Martin A. Hancock, Matthew Stanlake, Peter C. Cowan, John C. Van Gorp, David Kiddhugh T. Lindsay, John Toffler, Catherine Gamroth, Kui Wu, Dimitri Marinakis
A system and method for managing an electrical distribution system in a facility is disclosed. In one aspect, the method may include receiving at a computer system from a monitoring system data related to actual energy use of components of the electrical distribution system, receiving at the…
View patentSystems and methods for meter placement in power grid networks
Dimitri Marinakis, Kui Wu, Sardar Ali, Kyle Weston
Systems and methods for placement of power meters in a power distribution network are disclosed. In one example, the method comprises modeling the power distribution network as a data-driven network comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of power links connecting individual nodes of the…
View patentTrajectory Inference Using a Motion Sensing Network
Doug Cox, Darren Fairall, Neil Macmillan, Dimitri Marinakis, David Meger, Saamaan Pourtavakoli, Kyle Weston
This paper addresses the problem of inferring human trajectories through an environment using low frequency, low fidelity data from a sensor network. We present a novel "recombine" proposal for Markov Chain construction and use the new proposal to devise a probabilistic trajectory inference algorithm that...
View paperCentralized route calculation for a multi-hop streetlight network
Dimitri Marinakis, Marcus Redivo, Zoltan Varga, Jam Hamidi, Simon H. Lightbody
A system and various apparatus and methods performed therein configured for calculating routes touching and monitoring and controlling streetlights includes a multiplicity of streetlight controllers and a local coordinator. Each streetlight controller includes a switch operative to control the…
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