Uninhabited Test City
First Claim
1. A full scale uninhabited test facility configured for building, and/or evaluating man made structures, the test facility comprising:
- user configurable uninhabited environments configured to;
simulate settings in which man made structures are built; and
simulate use of man made structures in the simulated settings;
the user configurable environments comprising;
an urban environment configured to simulate infrastructure and man made structures in a city;
a suburban environment configured to simulate infrastructure and man made structures around a city; and
a rural environment configured to simulate infrastructure and man made structures in non urban or suburban areas.
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Abstract
A full scale uninhabited test facility is configured for building modular man made structures, evaluating modular man made structures, evaluating use of modular man made structures, and/or for other purposes. The structures may be located in a user configurable simulated environment. One or more structures may be configured to simulate use by inhabitants in a simulated environment. After testing, the constructed structure(s) may remain where built in the simulated environment(s) until such time as another user may reconfigure the environments or structures. As additional structures are built and/or modified, new and old structures may operate side by side, generating opportunity, for example, to test new and/or different technology on the same structures.
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31 Claims
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1. A full scale uninhabited test facility configured for building, and/or evaluating man made structures, the test facility comprising:
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user configurable uninhabited environments configured to; simulate settings in which man made structures are built; and simulate use of man made structures in the simulated settings; the user configurable environments comprising; an urban environment configured to simulate infrastructure and man made structures in a city; a suburban environment configured to simulate infrastructure and man made structures around a city; and a rural environment configured to simulate infrastructure and man made structures in non urban or suburban areas. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A full scale uninhabited test facility configured for building, and/or evaluating man made structures, the test facility comprising:
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reconfigurable man made structures built to simulate use by inhabitants; and a processor configured to; obtain input information, the input information comprising one or more of ambient conditions, fictional weather conditions, time of day, geographic location, the people and/or entity interacting with the structure(s), the size of entity and/or the number of people interacting with the structure(s), or biographical information about the people interacting with the structure(s); and regulate one or more facility wide control parameters responsive to the input information, the regulated facility wide control parameters comprising one or more of mechanical load, electrical load, temperature, humidity, power use, or water use. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A full scale uninhabited test facility configured for building, and/or evaluating man made structures, the test facility comprising:
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user configurable uninhabited environments configured; to simulate settings in which man made structures are built; and to simulate use of man made structures in the simulated settings; the user configurable environments comprising; an urban environment configured to simulate infrastructure and structures in a city; a suburban environment configured to simulate infrastructure and structures around a city; and a rural environment configured to simulate infrastructure and structures in non urban or suburban areas; and an underground monitoring facility configured to allow monitoring of the simulated environments and/or the simulated use of man made structures without interrupting a simulation. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A full scale uninhabited test facility configured for building, and/or evaluating man made structures, the test facility comprising:
reconfigurable modular structures configured for one or more of connection to future construction and/or future testing, wherein modularity comprises; ports external to a structure configured for one or more of connecting/ disconnecting telecommunication and/or sensory equipment to the structure, connecting/ disconnecting power to the structure, connecting/disconnecting water to the structure, monitoring one or more one or more parameters related to evaluation of a structure; mechanical connection points configured for one or more of future construction additions to the structure; and pre-installation of utilities in undeveloped areas of the test facility, wherein pre-installed utilities comprise one or more of water, power, or electricity. - View Dependent Claims (31)
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