The article is devoted to the actual problem of how improve reliability urban electric network. Based on statistical analysis breakdown electrical equipment in distribution networks Dushanbe for periods 2017-2018 and reasons damage leading these emergency outages, factors that affect outages are identified. Taking into account identified factors, a power consumption forecasting system proposed ...

The probability of failure at any major load point is a basic but useful index that should be determined first in the reliability study of generation and transmission systems. There is, however, considerable reluctance by system planners to utilize a single risk index to determine the capacity of generating units and transmission network to convey the energy to the major load points. This paper...

Today, the operation of sustainable power plants mainly relies on visualization of power production. Measurement data of such power plants are often discarded. We show the idle potential of such data by applying a state of the art algorithm to recognize malfunctions in a photovoltaic power plant. Up to now, these failures could only be found by manual inspection of the power plant every six wee...

As has been demonstrated previously, medical care providers that employ an electronic health records (EHR) system provide more appropriate, cost effective care. Those providers are also better positioned than those who rely on paper records to recover if their facility is damaged as a result of severe storms, fires, or other events. The events surrounding Superstorm Sandy in 2012 made it appare...

Data-driven techniques help boost agricultural productivity by increasing yields, reducing losses and cutting down input costs. However, these techniques have seen sparse adoption owing to high costs of manual data collection and limited connectivity solutions. In this paper, we present FarmBeats, an end-to-end IoT platform for agriculture that enables seamless data collection from various sens...

Domestic renewable energy systems, including photovoltaic energy generation, as well as local storage, are becoming increasingly popular and economically feasible, but do come with a wide range of options. Hence, it can be difficult to match their specification to specific customer’s needs. Next to the usage-specific demand profiles and location-specific production profiles, local energy storag...

Modern society depends on a reliable energy distribution network. Recent incidents such as the infiltration of a U.S. nuclear power plant together with the impacts of big power outages call for security measures to guarantee supply with energy. This article deals with security goals, attacks, and protection mechanisms for energy automation systems. Nevertheless many of the discussed issues and ...

Parts of the Internet are down every day, from the intentional shutdown of the Egyptian Internet in Jan. 2011 and natural disasters such as the Mar. 2011 Japanese earthquake, to the thousands of small outages caused by localized accidents, and human error, maintenance, or choices. Understanding these events requires efficient and accurate detection methods, motivating our new system to detect n...