Online condition monitoring and power management system for standalone micro‐grid using FPGAs

Venkatraman, K.; Reddy, B. Dastagiri; Selvan, M. P.; Moorthi, S.; Kumaresan, N.; Gounden, N. Ammasai

doi:10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.0445

Cited by 26 publications

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“…However, except of Ethernet, these technologies cannot provide decentralized communications in a reliable manner. The possibility to implement Ethernet over microgrid systems were reviewed very recently by [42], [43]. These works demonstrates Ethernet's applicability for DER's data exchange allowing share bandwidth to all connected devices and it demonstrates that Ethernet can be used in a real time as well as a great scale.…”

Section: Distributed Communication Technologies For Smart Microgridsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Current challenges and future trends in the field of communication architectures for microgrids

Marzal

Salas

González-Medina

et al. 2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

103

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The concept of microgrid has emerged as a feasible answer to cope with the increasing number of distributed renewable energy sources which are being introduced into the electrical grid. The microgrid communication network should guarantee a complete and bidirectional connectivity among the microgrid resources, a high reliability and a feasible interoperability. This is in a contrast to the current electrical grid structure which is characterized by the lack of connectivity, being a centralized-unidirectional system. In this paper a review of the microgrids information and communication technologies (ICT) is shown. In addition, a guideline for the transition from the current communication systems to the future generation of microgrid communications is provided. This paper contains a systematic review of the most suitable communication network topologies, technologies and protocols for smart microgrids. It is concluded that a new generation of peer-to-peer communication systems is required towards a dynamic smart microgrid. Potential future research about communications of the next microgrid generation is also identified.

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Section: Distributed Communication Technologies For Smart Microgridsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Current challenges and future trends in the field of communication architectures for microgrids

Marzal

Salas

González-Medina

et al. 2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

103

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“…MicroGrids are controlled through a MicroGrid controller incorporating demand-response so that demand can be matched to available supply in the safest and most optimized manner [23], [24]. Frequency droop for power sharing In the last few years, the digital systems allowed such devices to perform an increasing number of more and more complex operation [25]- [27]. This complexity requires hardware increasingly efficient in terms of computational power.…”

Section: Microgridmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This complexity requires hardware increasingly efficient in terms of computational power. Several FPGAs based controllers have been presented in the literature [27]- [29]. In such context is interesting to investigate the possibility to use mixed architecture composed by a microprocessor and a Hardware accelerator [30]- [32], or alternatively, the use of distributed simulation to evaluate the performance of such complex systems [33], [34], [35], [36].…”

Section: Microgridmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smarter City: Smart Energy Grid based on Blockchain Technology

Pieroni¹,

Scarpato²,

Nunzio³

et al. 2018

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

172

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The improvement of the Quality of Life (QoL) and the enhancement of the Quality of Services (QoS) represent the main goal of every city evolutionary process. It is possible making cities smarter promoting innovative solutions by use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for collecting and analysing large amounts of data generated by several sources, such as sensor networks, wearable devices, and IoT devices spread among the city. The integration of different technologies and different IT systems, needed to build smart city applications and services, remains the most challenge to overcome. In the Smart City context, this paper intends to investigate the Smart Environment pillar, and in particular the aspect related to the implementation of Smart Energy Grid for citizens in the urban context. The innovative characteristic of the proposed solution consists of using the Blockchain technology to join the Grid, exchanging information, and buy/sell energy between the involved nodes (energy providers and private citizens), using the Blockchain granting ledger.

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“…Micro-grid system is a small-scale power system consisting of distributed renewable energy sources and loads (Park & Candelaria, 2013;Venkatraman et al, 2016). Due to the distributed nature of the micro-grid approach, the connection to the central dispatch utility can be removed or minimized so that the power quality to sensitive loads can be enhanced.…”

Section: Micro-gridmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comprehensive embedded solution for data acquisition and communication using FPGA

Venkatraman

Moorthi

Selvan

et al. 2017

Journal of Applied Research and Technology

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Digital controllers in real time applications require a reliable system for acquisition of data for effective processing. This paper focusses on the design and development of a comprehensive embedded solution for data acquisition and communication using field programmable gate array (FPGA). In the proposed solution, an embedded platform is developed which acquires the data, monitors and provides essential communication between the devices connected via Ethernet in a network. The system utilizes server/client architecture mode of communication; control signals for the appliances connected to the client are controlled by the server and the status of appliances are displayed at server end for online monitoring. The proposed embedded solution works without a dedicated personal computer. The versatility and efficacy of the proposed platform is tested experimentally by employing it in a prototype of laboratory built micro-grid.

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Online condition monitoring and power management system for standalone micro‐grid using FPGAs

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

Current challenges and future trends in the field of communication architectures for microgrids

Current challenges and future trends in the field of communication architectures for microgrids

Smarter City: Smart Energy Grid based on Blockchain Technology

A comprehensive embedded solution for data acquisition and communication using FPGA

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