The need for small-scale renewable energy generation is predicted to increase. Distributed production, in general, can be more profitable due the cost of distribution and use storage, especially from microgrid. However, utility consumers face difficulties maintaining demand imbalance, frequent load-shedding, a drop power quality. To address this issue, portable quality meter protection based on...

The reliability of electrical energy networks depends on both, the quality and the reliability of its electrical equipment, e.g. power transformers. Local failures inside their insulation can lead to breakdowns and hence to high outage and penalty costs. Usually, power transformers are tested on partial discharge (PD) activity before commissioning. UHF PD monitoring can be used to prevent these...

Community-based watershed groups, many of which collect environmental data, have steadily increased in number over the last decade. The data generated by these programs are often underutilized due to uncertainty in the quality of data produced. The incorporation of data-quality measures into stakeholder monitoring programs lends statistical validity to data. Data-quality measures are divided in...

measurement of magnitude and frequency of the voltage flicker is very important for monitoring andcontrolling voltage flicker efficiently to improve the network power quality. this paper presents twonew methods for measurement of flicker signal parameters using shuffled frog leaping algorithm(sfla) and imperialist competitive algorithm (ica). this paper estimates fundamental voltage andflicker ...

The reliability of electrical energy networks depends on both the quality and the reliability of its electrical equipment, e.g. power transformers. Local failures inside their insulation can lead to breakdowns and hence to high outage and penalty costs. Usually, power transformers are tested on partial discharge (PD) activity before commissioning. UHF PD monitoring can be used to prevent these ...

In target tracking sensor networks, tracking quality and network lifetime are two conflicting optimization goals due to the limited battery power of the sensor nodes. During the movement of a target, how to select an optimal subset of sensors to wake up is of critical importance both for extending network lifetime and guaranteeing tracking quality. In this paper, we first propose a probabilisti...

A mixed-signal ECG System-on-Chip (SoC) that is capable of implementing configurable functionality with low-power consumption for portable ECG monitoring applications. A low-voltage and high performance analog front-end extracts 3-channel ECG signals and single channel electrode-tissueimpedance (ETI) measurement with high signal quality. This can be used to evaluate the quality of the ECG measu...