A System-Wide Adaptive Ramp Metering (SWARM) system is being implemented in the Portland metropolitan area, replacing the previous pre-timed ramp-metering system. SWARM has been deployed on six major corridors and operates during the morning and afternoon peak hours. This study entails a ―before‖ and ―after‖ evaluation of the benefit of the new SWARM system as compared to the pre-timed system u...

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is becoming increasingly popular as an efficient means of energy demand management. By collecting data through AMI, it possible to provide users with information that can induce them change their behavior. To ensure AMI continues expand and encourage the use data, important increase consumer participation analyze preferred service attributes. This study ut...

With the increasingly widespread of advanced metering infrastructure, electric load clustering is becoming more essential for its great potential in analytics consumers' energy consumption patterns and preference through data mining. Moreover, a variety techniques have been put into practice to obtain distribution data, observe characteristics clusters, classify components total load. This can ...

In the present scenario the information technology plays a very important role in all engineering applications. In electrical engineering, information technology support secure operation, customer participation, market advantages and growth for the power industry. Smart grid refers to electric power system that enhances grid reliability and efficiency by automatically responding to system distu...

The next generation of electric grid has a scalable and reliable bi-directional communication infrastructure known as Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to allow monitoring and controlling of grid resources. In this kind of communication system, comprising thousands of resource-constrained nodes such as smart meters, the routing protocol plays a critical role to guarantee reliability and lo...

The smart grid is the modern electricity grid, which significantly improves efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of transmission systems. advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, essential system in enables real-time data collection analysis obtained from meters (SMs) other devices through last-mile communication networks. In this paper, hardware-based link quality estimation (LQE)...

The aim of this paper is to present the idea and starting points for an innovative facility resource monitoring system, which will be realized in a recently started research project: NoFaRe. NoFaRe’s goal is to enable low cost monitoring of electrical devices in buildings using advanced Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques and evaluate its value in facility management based on Buildi...