Smart devices, storage and other distributed technologies have the potential to greatly improve the utilisation of network infrastructure and renewable generation. Decentralised control of these technologies overcomes many scalability and privacy concerns, but in general still requires the underlying problem to be convex in order to guarantee convergence to a global optimum. Considering that AC...

3 Conclusion 1.Smart metering projects are at risk of consumer rejection, and investment failure. 2.We have identified ways to reduce consumer’s privacy and choice concerns about data that is extracted and transmitted from a smart meter. 3.We have proposed a Smart Metering System Architecture and abstract data flow model that identifies security and privacy requirements to ensure consumer secur...

Cost effective solar power can be the answer for all our energy needs. Solar powered smart irrigation systems are the answer to the Indian farmer. This system consists of solar powered water pump along with an automatic water flow control using a moisture sensor. It is the proposed solution for the present energy crisis for the Indian farmers. This system conserves electricity by reducing the u...

Noncooperative Games for Autonomous Consumer Load Balancing Over Smart Grid. (August 2010) Tarun Agarwal, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Shuguang (Robert) Cui Traditionally, most consumers of electricity pay for their consumption according to a fixed-rate. The few existing implementations of real time pricing have been restricted to large industr...

In today’s world carrying a number of plastic smart cards to establish our identity has become an integral segment of our routine lives. Identity establishment necessitates a pre stored readily available data about self and to the administrator to authenticate it with claimer’s personal information. There is a distinct requirement of a technological solution for nationwide multipurpose identity...

A macro-programmable DSP architecture is presented, which is very well situated for the implementation of algorithms with regular data flow graphs, like FFTs. A smart grouping of the algorithm together with the macrocode concept reduce drastically the control and address generation overhead of the DSP and shorten the computation time. This is finally manifested in very low-power consumption, sm...

We propose and demonstrate a design methodology for embedded systems satisfying low power requirements suitable for self-powered sensor and actuator nodes. This design methodology focuses on 1. smart energy management at runtime and 2. application-specific System-On-Chip (SoC) design at design time, contributing to low-power systems on both algorithmic and technology level. Smart energy managem...

The response time of the smart electrical vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is the key index of the system performance. The traffic between the smart EV charging station and the control center dominates the response time of the smart charging stations. To accelerate the response of the smart EV charging station, there is a need for a technology that collects the information locally and relay...

The Efficacy and Challenges of SCADA and Smart Grid Integration The advent and evolution of the Smart Grid initiative to improve the electric utility power infrastructure has brought with it a number of opportunities for improving efficiencies, but along with those benefits come challenges in the effort to assure safety, security, and reliability for utilities and consumers alike. One of the co...

Detection and sorting of particles and cells in a continuous flow stream is of great importance to downstream biological studies and high-throughput screening. Many particle separation techniques require peripheral devices, complex channel designs or setups that can limit the process and its applications. Here, we present a smart-phone attachable continuous flow magnetic focusing device as an i...