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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Energy Monitoring"”.
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Wireless energy monitoring system
Monitoring, controlling, and managing the energy usage in houses or buildings are tasks that not many electric power companies can do with the exception of a few. This sort of operations may be important to households who want to monitor and possibly even control and manage their own electrical …
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Home NILM : a comprehensive energy monitoring toolkit
… vibration sensor is part of a larger embedded energy harvesting project which aims to provide diagnostic feedback on motors during operation. The management framework is a powerful collection of software programs that allows data to be collected and stored locally but efficiently manipulated …
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Minimally intrusive strategies for fault detection and energy monitoring
This thesis addresses the need for automated monitoring systems that rely on minimally intrusive sensor arrays. The monitoring techniques employed in this thesis require fewer sensors because they take a different approach to the measurement problem. Specifically, these techniques use the power …
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An Enhanced Signal Processing Toolbox for Electrical Energy Monitoring
… of literature exists for load identification and energy disaggregation under ideal, healthy conditions. However, a significant value proposition of nonintrusive load monitoring comes from fault detection and diagnostics. Early detection of electromechanical faults aids safety, reduces energy …
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Towards an Intelligent Energy Monitoring System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
… an approach to characterizing the uncertainty in energy use toward development of a real-time intelligent energy monitoring system for an autonomous under- water vehicle (AUV). The purpose of the intelligent energy monitoring system is to estimate current energy onboard the AUV, estimate energy …
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A microcomputer based Energy Monitoring and Reporting System for Virginia state facilities
Effective energy management programs rely upon readily accessible energy consumption information. This thesis presents a Lotus Symphony based microcomputer system developed to monitor, analyze, and report on energy usage for a select group of Virginia state facilities. A review of significant …
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Natural Rhythms and Temporal Perception - Visualization of Sunlight Patterns with Energy Monitoring
… a connection to natural rhythms the BIPV energy monitoring is used during the day to record variations in solar radiation which at night are played back through intensity and color variations of LED lighting. The effect of the LED lighting was compared with the sunlight entering through …
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Detection and diagnosis of faults and energy monitoring of HVAC systems with least-intrusive power analysis
… systems, faults always lead to inefficient energy consumption, undesirable indoor air conditions, and even damage to the mechanical components. Continuous monitoring of the system and analysis of faults and their major effects are therefore crucial to identifying the faults at the early …
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Energy-aware system design using circuit reconfigurability with a focus on low-power SRAMs
… such as maximizing performance while minimizing energy. Moreover, they have to work efficiently under changing system dynamics and application loads. Thus, for better power and performance optimization, they need to adapt to different conditions on-the-fly. In this regard, systems need to monitor …
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Design of Energy Dashboard Display to Promote Energy-Data Literacy
In many US homes, 15% of the energy that can be saved is hidden beneath complex mathematical calculations. Hidden energy savings can be revealed by converting mathematical calculations to data visualizations, creating a story for residents to see how they are consuming energy. Cloud-based data …
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A comprehensive system for non-intrusive load monitoring and diagnostics
Energy monitoring and smart grid applications have rapidly developed into a multi-billion dollar market. The continued growth and utility of monitoring technologies is predicated upon the ability to economically extract actionable information from acquired data streams. One of the largest …
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Analysis and techniques for non-intrusive appliance load monitoring.
The increased public awareness of energy conservation and the demand for smart metering system have created interests in home energy monitoring. Load disaggregation using a single sensing point is considered a cost-effective way to sense individual appliance operation as opposed to using dedicated …
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A study of energy-related occupancy activities in a sample of monitored domestic buildings in the UK
Domestic energy use is determined by multiple non-technological factors, such as the occupants’ lifestyle and activities, which can even offset the effect from energy-efficiency technologies. Acquiring the actual occupancy data relating to energy use in a uniform format to generate comparable and …
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Nonintrusive load disaggregation computer program to estimate the energy consumption of major end-uses in residential buildings
… its end-uses. The computer program estimates the energy consumption of individual electric appliances in a house based on the analysis of the current measured at the house-power source interface using a minimum number of sensors. The program, written in the C programming language, is based on the …
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Barriers and Cognitive Biases in the Monitoring-Based Commissioning Process
Many buildings underperform leading to up to 20% energy waste. Case studies on monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) have shown that using energy management and information systems (EMIS) for continuous energy monitoring and analysis enables the identification of issues that cause energy waste and …
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Lessons Learned in Energy Efficiency of Mini-Split HVAC Systems in Affordable Housing
The road to energy-efficient housing is not without cracks and potholes. Many building stakeholders have pointed to the discrepancies that exist between simulated and measured efficiency results, where some have called it a post-occupancy gap, others have called it an energy efficiency information …
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The analysis of primary metered half-hourly electricity and gas consumption in municipal buildings.
… and interpretation of primary meter half-hourly energy consumption data. The current work offers a novel benchmarking technique that was tested for 6 types of municipal buildings. This approach is different from conventional annual benchmarking mainly because it uses electricity and gas data in …
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Wattsworth : a vision for cyber physical system design
… feedback offer significant value in terms of energy reduction, fault detection, equipment diagnostics, monitoring, security and more. This revolution will not happen in a positive way without a clear vision of how sensor, network, and control technologies can be applied to enhance human …
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Design of a wireless platform for wearable and home automation applications
… multitude of applications such as environmental monitoring, medical care, disaster response, home automation, urban scale monitoring, gaming etc. These small, low-power, multifunctional sensors includes sensing, data processing and communication components representing a significant improvement …
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