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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"smart power"”.
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Intelligent Fault Location for Smart Power Grids
… efficient, and affordable delivery of electric power. The complexity of fault location problem increases with the proliferation of unusual topologies and with the advent of renewable energy-based power generation in the smart grid environment. The proliferation of new Intelligent Electronic …
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Analysis and characterization of wireless smart power meter
… work supports development of a low-cost wireless smart power meter capable of measuring RMS Values of voltage and current, real power, and reactive power. The proposed smart power meter features include matching by-device rate of consumption and usage patterns to assist users in monitoring the …
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Resolution Tricks and Disaggregation Tools for Smart Power Metering
… energy disaggregation problem by incorporating power system analysis, signal processing, and machine learning. This thesis addresses two problems present in state-of-the-art nonintrusive load monitoring research. First, the ability of existing nonintrusive load monitoring techniques and data to …
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Impact and Utilization of Emerging PHEV in Smart Power Systems
… two important issues for the secure operation of power systems. Electricity grid upgrades, and especially the construction of new transmission lines and loads cannot keep pace with the growing power plant capacity and energy demand for various reasons. The changing characteristics and new loads of …
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Design of a smart power manager for digital communication systems
… mobile phones, are in an increasing need for power due to the growing complexity of applications and services provided by them. At the same time, mobile devices need to adapt their communication techniques so as to be able to work with different communication standards. The need for a …
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Design and Modelling of Smart Power IC Components For the Automotive Industry
In this thesis, n- and p-type power semiconductor devices used for H-bridge Direct Current (DC) motor drives in automotive application are developed. It will focus on the development of power semiconductor devices which are able to support a voltage in the range of 80V-100V with the specific …
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Experimental Verification and Integration of a Next Generation Smart Power Management System
… is a need for a system to efficiently manage power within a residence. The Smart Green Power Node (SGPN) is a next generation energy management system that automates on-site energy production, storage, consumption, and grid usage to yield the most savings for both the utility and the consumer. …
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Smart Power Module for Distributed Sensor Power Network of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle
… in modern electronic design particularly in power conversion where conversion losses directly set the upper limit of system efficiency. A wide variety of commercially available DC-DC conversion elements have inefficiencies in the 90-97% range. The efficiency range of most common …
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Getting Smart in the 21st Century: Exploring the Application of Smart Power in Deterring Insurgencies and Violent Non-State Actors
… against a multitude of violent non-state actors. Smart power, a selective employment of hard and soft power applications, presents an opportunity to limit and deter violent non-state actors in a resource-constrained environment. Smart power, previously viewed through a largely state-on-state lens …
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Higher Education as a “Smart” U.s. Foreign Policy Tool: Assessing the Attitudes of U.S. Trained Foreign Nationals
… and opinions. Grounded upon the concept of smart power, Nye argued that the attractiveness of shared values can contribute to the management of global conflict. This policy perspective essentially positions higher education as a foreign policy tool. The results of this study provide insight …
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Cuban Embargo: An Insufficient Measure to Encourage US Foreign Policy Interests
… the Cuban embargo as an ineffective hard power policy and explores the potential of soft, hard, and smart power as alternative approaches to resolve the failures of the 60-year-old blockade. The paper analyzes the historical context and rationale behind the embargo and assesses its impact …
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Fault injections on mission-critical computer systems
… the effects of faults, attacks and failures on a smart power grid utilizing software-defined networking (SDN) to orchestrate its data acquisition network. We evaluate our fault models on a smart power grid simulation running Raincoat, an SDN application that reroutes and spoofs network traffic to …
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Model and control for cooperative energy management
… to build and deploy a highly scalable system for smart power grids that will enable efficient demand shaping for small-user networks. Two key problems are to provide distributed control algorithm for efficient demand shaping and to provide an incentive structure to encourage both users and the …
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Demand-Side Energy Management in the Smart Grid: Games and Prospects
… challenges faced by the next-generation smart power grid, in this thesis, novel frameworks are developed for optimizing energy management and trading between power companies and grid consumers, who own renewable energy generators and storage units. The proposed frameworks explicitly …
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Implementation of a Testbed with SDN-enabled Communication Networks to Experiment on Physical Function Virtualization that Disrupts Reconnaissance of Cyber-Physical Infrastructures
… deployed in the real world. Large ICSs, such as smart power grids, consist of the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and the programmable logic controllers (PLCs). PLCs and SCADA exchange control signals and measurement data through a communication network. As an ICS scales, …
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Learning Mealy machines with local timers
… autonomous vehicles, advanced robots, and smart power systems, are set to transform every aspect of daily life. To deploy these systems safely, it is essential to ensure that they behave correctly. However, understanding and verifying their behavior often requires accurate and up-to-date …
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Compact integrity-aware architectures
… (AMI), a core technology in emerging smart power grid systems that requires integrity guarantees for each meter over an interval of time rather than just at a given instant. Our prototype Cumulative Attestation Kernel (CAK) uses less than one quarter of the memory available on 32-bit …
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Emergency Detection in Private Households Utilizing Existing Data Sources for Human Activity Event Recognition
… for efficient emergency detection systems in smart homes is becoming increasingly important. Over 30% of those aged 65 and older experience at least one fall per year, often resulting in the inability to rise without assistance, leading to ‘long lies’ lasting hours or even days. Systems for …
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Adaptive Critic-based Control of Voltage Source Converters in Microgrid Systems
… as the main building blocks of the future smart power grid, is an important problem which has initiated many research activities in recent years. The microgrid should appear to the power grid as a single united entity, in which the majority of distributed energy resources are interfaced …
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Aren't Only Girls Secretaries…?”: Leadership Lessons From Women U.S. Secretaries of State
… dynamics and the pursuit of personal empowerment within institutional structures. Her story served as a testament to the importance of fostering strong relationships, maintaining loyalty, and navigating power dynamics skillfully to wield influence effectively in high-level governance. …
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