Smart Power Grid

September 2010

Silvio Baccari, Massimo Tipaldi, Francesco Vasca, Luigi Iannelli, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

Increasingly, with the development and refurbishment of Power Grid systems, more efficient street and public lighting systems are becoming ever higher on a government's agenda. Over the last years,

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09/01/2010

Power-Grid Monitoring Systems

By Joseph Shtargot, Strategic Applications Engineer, Maxim Integrated Products Inc., Sunnyvale, California

Many advanced industrial applications use high-performance multichannel data acquisition systems (DASs) to manage real-time information from precision industrial sensors. These complex systems

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09/01/2010

Grid Tie Inverter Design

Wibawa T.Chou, Senior Application Engineer, International Rectifier Corporation

In order to achieve higher efficiency in a grid tie inverter, the correct choice of power semiconductor devices becomes very important. For grid tie inverters, the bus voltage is in the order of

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09/01/2010

PLC for the Smart Grid

Alfredo Sanz, COO, ADD Semiconductors, Advanced Digital Design S.A., Zaragoza, Spain

The evolution from the traditional electrical grid to the new smart grid introduces many challenges. One of these main challenges is the need for a good communication network to receive information

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09/01/2010

Smart Grid Integrity

Helmut Dönges, Dipl -Ing., MBA, Sales Director, Inductive Components, Magnetec GmbH, Germany

Every day we can read and see on news statements like: "A series of agreements to collaborate on four smart grid projects signed.", "International Smart Grid Action Network launched.", "Beyond the

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09/01/2010