smart grid

Smart Apartment Communities

I am getting a new apartment and am going to move-in in October! This time it is a fancy one, not a basement of a house, but well it is still technically in a basement (subterranean as the apartment office calls it). It is fancy in that it is part of an apartment complex. The… Continue reading Smart Apartment Communities

Bounty Electricity

What if each appliance posted a bounty for providing in real time the amount of electricity it needed to function. The bounty would first be attempted by the house itself and if the house did not have any spare electricity in its batteries then it would post a bounty out for that electricity. The first… Continue reading Bounty Electricity

Power grid for shipping containers

Shocks in shipping containers that would charge batteries that would allow for gps tracking of all of the containers. Also, when stacked they could essentially distribute the electricity. Harvesting the energy from the force of tons of pressure would be interesting. Also, they could be very safe batteries!! You could use Lightsail storage. Then it would be… Continue reading Power grid for shipping containers

Smart grid dataset from UMASS

I just found http://traces.cs.umass.edu/index.php/Smart/Smart. UMASS has a nice set of data that can be used for doing stuff with the smart grid. Might be interesting.

Microgrid thoughts

There are numereous hurdles to get through before we start seeing microgrid electricity economies. The first which has already been dealt with by http://www.homerenergy.com is a microgrid simulator that simulates and suggests solutions to the first problem of determining number and type of alternative energy resources are needed for an area. Then we need to be able… Continue reading Microgrid thoughts

Automatic feature selection for Horde

I think that fractal clustering could be used to cluster data streams of electricity data. What about distributed clustering algorithms? So, we have massive data streams from different parts of the grid coming in to their respective hubs. How do you make sense of the whole? I think fractal clustering would work here. I believe… Continue reading Automatic feature selection for Horde

I am starting to think that my application area for MAL will be in smart grid tech. I was talking to Stephen (PhD student that works at the NRL) and he suggested Navy ships and subs as a possible place to look into. So, I looked it up and they do seem to already use… Continue reading Smart grid