Smart Grids (SG) enable power generation, distribution, transmission, customers and utilities to transfer, predict, monitor manage energy usage effectively. In order provide them, SGs need be fully realized by integrating communication technologies infrastructures. Today, have some main systems. These are Advanced Meter Reading (AMR), distributed renewable energy, storage, electric vehicle smar...

Technical losses in the transmission network are: of power, i.e. electrical energy, which are a consequence consumption energy for heating elements due to existence active resistance these elements, hysteresis, eddy currents, drain currents insulation, corona and dielectric losses. With most frequent use smart meters indirect connection operation plant set up display electricity from secondary ...

Received Apr 18, 2017 Revised Jul 9, 2017 Accepted Aug 8, 2017 The importance of quality of the measured values is very dependent on the device that measures these values: the size of the sample, the time of measurement, periods of measurement, the mobility and the robustness of the device, etc. Contemporary devices intended for the measurement of physical quantities that are on the market vary...

BACKGROUND The standard for reading cervical cytology is for a cytoscreener to manually search across an entire slide for abnormal cells using a conventional microscope. Automated technology can select fields of view to assess abnormal cells, which allows targeted reading by cytoscreeners. In the Manual Assessment Versus Automated Reading In Cytology (MAVARIC) trial, we compared the accuracy of...

Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is the remote collection of consumption data from customer’s utility meters over telecommunications, radio, power line and other links. AMR provides water, electric and gas utility−service companies the opportunities to streamline metering, billing and collection activities, increase operational efficiency and improve customer service. Utility company uses technolo...

The computer plays vital role in all industries. The dependence on computers keeps on increasing every day. The digitization of information transfer between machine and men helps to make the paper-free society. The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and its applications help us to make the digital world. In this paper, we review the various OCR approaches for recognizing the characters from di...

We propose a new algorithm for the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (CARP). Our motivation to deal with this problem is related to its application in several real world scenarios such as street sweeping, urban waste collection and electric meter reading just to mention a few. Based on BRKGA metaheuristic, our algorithm introduces a new random key encoding for CARP, mutation to random keys string...

Evaluation of any communication technology is only relevant in the context of the operating environment. This seemingly obvious point, frequently bypassed in general analysis, cannot be overlooked in the field of power line communications. The conditions required for superposition to be applicable (i.e., linearity and time invariance) are not met for the majority of power line networks. In this...