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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Smart Meters"”.
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Adaptive Health Monitoring Using Aggregated Energy Readings from Smart Meters
… (EIP). In the UK, a national roll out of smart meters is underway. Energy suppliers will install and configure over 50 million smart meters by 2020. The UK is not alone in this effort. In other countries such as Italy and the USA, large scale deployment of smart meters is in progress. …
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Intrusion Detection of Flooding DoS Attacks on Emulated Smart Meters
The power grid has changed a great deal from what has been generally viewed as a traditional power grid. The modernization of the power grid has seen an increase in the integration and incorporation of computing and communication elements, creating an interdependence of both physical and cyber …
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Gestión de la información en redes eléctricas de distribución terminal con smart meters comunicados mediante tecnología PLC
La presente tesis doctoral se centra en el estudio y propuesta del proceso de digitalización de las redes de distribución terminal, comúnmente conocidas como redes de baja tensión (BT), y su transición hacia infraestructuras inteligentes. Este trabajo investiga la implementación y desarrollo de …
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Secure and compromise-resilient architecture for advanced metering infrastructure
In recent years, the Smart Grid has grown to be the solution for future electrical energy that promises to avoid blackouts as well as to be energy efficient, environmentally and customer-friendly. In Smart Grid, the customer-friendly applications are a key element that provides the feature for …
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Residential Demand Response using Electricity Smart Meter Data
… Decentralisation, and Decarbonisation. Smart meters are the vital infrastructure necessary to digitalise the energy system as well as enable advancements in decentralisation and decarbonisation. As of today, more than 500 million smart meters have been installed worldwide, with that …
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Machine learning-based intrusion detection system in advanced metering infrastructure
Smart meters are quickly being introduced to households all over the world. Consumers will benefit significantly from Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). This high-tech equipment, however, is vulnerable to serious threats. To detect attacks, many authors recommend using Intrusion Detection …
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Data-Driven Approaches for Enhancing Power Grid Reliability
… model leveraging consumption measurements from smart meters and corresponding substation data to reconstruct topology information in low-voltage distribution networks. The proposed model is extensively tested using a dataset with more than 5,000 real load profiles, demonstrating satisfactory …
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Smart Meter Data-Driven Fault Location Algorithm in Distribution Systems
… algorithm that utilizes modern devices such as, smart meters, phasors measurement units (PMUs) and Fault Current Indicator (FIs).The IEEE-123 bus system is used to demonstrate the proposed algorithm. Data from the smart meters and the PMUs were utilized for all the voltage and current …
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Interpreting human activity from electrical consumption data through non-intrusive load monitoring
… has three distinct advantages over today's smart meters. First, it offers accountability. Few people know where their kWh's are going. Second, it is a maintenance tool. Signs of wear are detectable through their electrical signal. Third, it provides awareness of human activity within a …
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Cyber attacks detection in electric vehicles fast charging stations using wavelets and deep learning
… electric vehicles fast charging stations with smart electric grid allows the electric vehicles to provide regulation services (e.g., voltage and frequency) to the grid through the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) concept. An effective service provision dictates the integration of communication networks to …
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Saving water in schools: evidence on the use of smart water meters and behavioural insights
… usage: detailed water usage data feedback from smart meters, and an interschool competition. Interventions reduced water usage in these schools by 15 to 26%. The information feedback was found to be more effective in reducing night time water use, indicating better water usage by the staff, …
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Nonintrusive Load Monitoring for Verification and Diagnostics
… devices with capabilities similar to modern smart meters and can provide meaningful feedback to both the user and supplying utility. Limitations of inexpensive commercial devices, such as resolution and measurement sample rate, will be addressed. Using clustering and a Hidden Markov Model …
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Enabling sustainable power distribution networks by using smart grid communications
Smart grid modernization enables integration of computing, information and communications capabilities into the legacy electric power grid system, especially the low voltage distribution networks where various consumers are located. The evolutionary paradigm has initiated worldwide deployment of an …
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Predicción de consumos eléctricos en Inglaterra, Gales y Escocia a través de datos de medidores inteligentes
… that forces energy suppliers to deploy smart meters in all homes, usable information can be obtained when predicting more accurately the energy consumption in different geographical areas. Companies buy energy in the energy market, which means that energy not consumed as it can not be …
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Deployment considerations for intrusion detection systems in advanced metering infrastructure
… communication between utilities and smart meters deployed in the field, allowing consumption, outage, and price information to be shared efficiently and reliably. The addition of this new infrastructure, connected through mesh networks, has given rise to new opportunities for …
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Smart-grid-enabled distributed reactive power support with conservation of voltage reduction
… The focus of this thesis is to develop a smart-grid-enabled control algorithm that will determine the amount of reactive power injection or absorption required at each node to minimize the deviation from the control voltage level. Once the voltage level is achieved, implementing …
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The utilization of power converters in consumer products for distributed reactive power support
The introduction of smart meters to residential customers opens the door to feedback which can be used to improve the nation's power grid. The motivation of this research lies in the use of emerging smart grid devices to supply reactive power as a means of distributed reactive power support. Such …
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PV Hosting Analysis and Demand Response Selection for handling Modern Grid Edge Capability
… Energy Resources (DER), installation of smart meters, these are some of the many factors that characterize the changing distribution network. These transformations taking place at the edge of the grid call for improved planning and operation practices. In this context, this thesis aims to …
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Intrusion detection and prevention in advanced metering networks
… the power grid and turn it into the “smart grid”. AMI, through the use of “smart meters” and high-speed networks, promises to strengthen both the stability and sustainability of the grid. The vision of AMI is to enhance and improve the grid by providing fine-grained control over …
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A comparative evaluation of unsupervised anomaly detection techniques in smart water metering networks
… technologies have enabled the development of smart water metering networks (SWMNs). These networks enable water utilities to measure the water consumption of the connected households better than the traditional metering. Every household's traditional water meter is replaced by a smart meter. …
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