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vr.tr.temperature · thing-q11466

Let an agent handle temperature by scale, measurement, conversion and safety, and route body temperature concerns to health guidance without diagnosis.

Thing Registry Cross-cutting context XCT.QLT
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Quantity Values and scales.

Value

Reading.

Value

Temperature value.

  1. What is the temperature, and on which scale? measurement
  2. What is it in kelvins? measurement

Context

Air, water, body.

Context

Context.

  1. Which temperature is meant, such as air, water or body? definition
  2. Where was it measured? provenance
Measurement Instruments.

Instrument

Thermometer.

Instrument

Instrument.

  1. Which thermometer suits this measurement? action
  2. How accurate is it? measurement

Calibration

Traceability.

Calibration

Calibration.

  1. When was it last calibrated? provenance
  2. Against which reference? provenance
Safety Heat and cold.

Emergency

Heat stroke, hypothermia.

Emergency

Temperature emergencies.

  1. Are there signs of heat stroke or hypothermia? boundary
  2. Which emergency number should be called? action

Food

Safe temperatures.

Food

Food safety temperatures.

  1. What temperature rules apply to storing or cooking this food? provenance
  2. Which authority sets them? provenance
Health Body temperature.

Fever

Readings.

Fever

Fever.

  1. How should body temperature be measured correctly? provenance
  2. When do health services advise seeking care, especially for infants? provenance

Advice

Clinician.

Advice

Advice limit.

  1. Is the user asking to interpret their own symptoms? boundary
  2. How should they be referred to a clinician? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Cross-cutting context
Entry kind
thing
Plane
XCT
Domain
XCT.QLT
Other names and narrower kinds
warm water, body temperature, maternal temperature, human body temperature, basal body temperature, anapyrexia, reference temperature, correlated colour temperature, thermodynamic temperature, color temperature, mean radiant temperature, bulk temperature

What it is Filled

A physical quantity expressing how hot or cold something is, related to the average kinetic energy of particles, measured in kelvins (SI), degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit; includes air, water and body temperature.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent handle temperature by scale, measurement, conversion and safety, and route body temperature concerns to health guidance without diagnosis.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Intensive quantity
  • Several scales
  • Measured with many instruments
  • Critical for safety

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Report a temperature without its scale, or treat an uncalibrated reading as accurate.
  • Advise holding food or medicines outside the safe range set by the authority.
  • Downplay heat or cold exposure risk to a person who may be at risk.
  • Suppress or override a temperature alarm on equipment or a cold chain.
  • Interpret a person's body temperature as a diagnosis.

Only with a human decision

  • Any change to a temperature set point or alarm in a system people depend on.
  • Decisions on whether food, medicine or vaccines remain fit after a temperature excursion.

May

  • Convert between temperature scales and state the scale and uncertainty with every value.
  • Read and report temperatures from instruments it is authorized to access.
  • Flag a reading outside a safe range for food, medicine, equipment or people.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Heat stroke and hypothermia kill, and the people most at risk are the least able to act.
  • Cold chain failures spoil vaccines and medicines that patients then receive ineffective.

Who is affected

  • Patients and people exposed to heat or cold
  • Consumers of food and medicines
  • Operators of monitored systems

Owners Filled

Steward

The operator of the system or process; the international system of units defines the kelvin.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q141187343 - registry parent class
  • Q141256417 - registry parent class
  • Q181175 - registry parent class
  • Q3387041 - registry parent class

related

  • physical quantity - category
  • kelvin - unit
  • thermometer - instrument
  • heat - related concept

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.temperature
  • Wikidata: Q11466 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11466)
  • SI unit: kelvin (K) unit

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

  • absolute zero: 0 K - -273.15 degC
  • water boiling at 1 atm: 100 degC

Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Units K, degC, degF
  • Thermometers and sensors
  • Heat is energy transfer, not temperature
  • Not visible; shown on thermometers and sensors.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • convert between temperature scales
  • choose and calibrate thermometers
  • follow food safety temperatures
  • recognise heat and cold emergencies

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Heat stroke and hypothermia
  • Food held at unsafe temperatures
  • Uncalibrated thermometers

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • SI Brochure and ITS-90
  • Food hygiene temperature rules
  • Workplace heat guidance

Context of use required Filled

  • Weather, cooking, science, industry and health.
  • air temperature
  • water temperature
  • body temperature
  • process temperature
  • colour temperature (related)

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q11466: temperature - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Temperature - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should kinds of temperature be separate entries?
  • How should conversion be linked?
  • How should body temperature be split off?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11466/spec.json