The ‘smart grid’ is an upgrade of the existing 20th century electrical power grid, promoted to address the pressing issues of end-user energy monitoring, global warming, distributed power generation and emergency response. Smart grids are quickly spawning in Australia, Europe and North America. Security in smart grids is imperative to protect the functionality of their underlying networks, the ...

Discrete fluid volumes (plugs) are often needed for micro bioassay. Current methods of isolating discrete volumes use electrokinetic forces that require high voltages and result in ionic component separation of the sample. Pressure-driven flow through a double-T metering junction is a suggested alternative to this electrokinetic method. There has been no extensive analysis of pressure-driven pl...

The continuing rollout of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems has lead to greater efficiency for utility companies collecting energy, gas, and water consumption data. Replacing manual readings with automated metering systems can reduce labor costs as a first-order benefit. More importantly, automated systems allow higher-order benefits and services that the utility company can conven...

We present in this paper a linear programming framework to address freeway control applications such as ramp metering. After showing the equivalence between the LWR model and a linear optimization problem, several extensions are introduced to model the ramp queues and the capacity drop phenomenon. A wide range of objective functions which are relevant in traffic engineering are then introduced ...

This paper deals with design, calibration, experimental implementation and validation of cost-effective smart metering system. Goal was to analyse power consumption of the household with the immediate availability of the measured information utilizing modern networked and mobile technologies. Research paper outlines essential principles of the measurement process, document theoretical and pract...