Paper Info
Title
Efficient Microgrid Management System for Electricity Distribution in Emerging Regions
Abstract
In this paper we describe the motivations and design process for our open-source, low-power, and high-accuracy AC power meters suitable for several different off-grid metering applications. The described metering and switching hardware is more power efficient than off-the-shelf systems with equivalent capability while being able to measure much smaller loads accurately. The metering system we've developed is suitable for monitoring up to a collection of 20 circuits each drawing power as low as 1W up to 500W as is often found in a rural microgrid setting. Created with modularity in mind, the software and hardware design can easily be modified to be used as part of a home-solar power system, an AC micro-grid, or as a meter for each load in a room. The designs and source code will be made publicly available in August of 2012.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/GHTC.2012.63
GHTC
Keywords
Field
DocType
optical switches,electricity,metering,hardware,accuracy
Electricity,Source code,Electric power distribution,Electric power system,AC power,Engineering,Design process,Metering mode,Electrical engineering,Microgrid
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier Rosa172.24
P. Achintya Madduri200.34
Daniel Soto3255.69