This paper describes three software applications for distribution network load forecasting in a Smart Grid environment: (i) short-term feeder load forecasting, (ii) shortterm substation transformer load forecasting and transformer rating, and (iii) next-year load pocket forecasting. The shortterm feeder load forecasting allows a utility to reduce the possibility of feeder overloading. The subst...

This paper designs and develops an automatic detection system in the substation environment where complex and multi-inspecting objects exist. The inspection robot is able to fix and identify the objects quickly using a visual servo control system. This paper focuses on the analysis of fast lockup and recognition method of the substation instruments based on an improved Adaboost algorithm. The r...

Hardwired sensor installations using proprietary protocols found in today's district heating substations limit the potential usability of the sensors in and around the substations. If sensor resources can be shared and re-used in a variety of applications, the cost of sensors and installation can be reduced, and their functionality and operability can be increased. In this paper, we present a n...

Usually, distribution electricians are called upon to solve technical problems found in electrical substations. In this project, we apply problem-based learning to a training program for electricians, with the help of a virtual reality environment that simulates a real substation. Using this virtual substation, users may safely practice maneuvers with varying degrees of complexity. To improve t...

A complete reconstruction program was started at the electrical substation of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant to assist the Hungarian high voltage network to join the European network. At the operator level a new, PC-based SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system was introduced. An AI-based, intelligent advisory system was developed and embedded into the SCADA system. The first part...

In this paper, proposed an advance approach for dynamic data protection using LSB and hybrid approach. Steganography is the art of communicating a message by embedding it into multimedia data. The proposed method for replacing one or two or three LSB of each pixel in video frame and apply Advance encryption standard (AES). It becomes very difficult for intruder to guess that an image is hidden ...

The source maintenance technology of the smart substation offers the base for the models, data and graphs sharing between the substation and the dispatch center. This paper researches on the conversion technology between SCD model in IEC 61850 Ed. 2 and the CIM model in IEC 61970. The substation provides SVG and SCD documents to the dispatch center, which includes primary equipment information ...

The connection points between MV and LV distribution networks are MV substations. Optimal sitting, sizing and timing of MV substation placement is the major planning problem in MV-LV distribution system planning projects. In this paper the optimal MV substation placement problem is solved using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) as a new developed heuristic optimization algorithm. This pro...

According to the conclusions of the study “Smart Portugal 2020”, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can contribute to a reduction of 15% in our ecological footprint. The role of innovation and the early adoption of solutions that could reduce consumption in all economical sectors will be vital to the 20/20/20 European Strategy [1]. Active network management for generation, sto...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been successfully applied to the problem of forecasting future load values, especially in the short term framework (a few minutes to a few hours ahead). Traditional analytical models have shown difficulties when dealing with (i) the highly variable demand curve shapes, (ii) some independent variables that exhibit random behaviour, and (iii) the identificat...