Measuring Smart Home Power with Hall-Effect Sensors

Technical overview of Hall-effect sensors for smart-home current measurement, covering MLX91205, ACS711, TLE4997, PCB implementations, ranges, and network integration.

Fault Diagnosis and Detection for Smart Grids

Technical overview of using ADE7816 energy-measurement ICs with current sensors (including Rogowski coils) for multichannel smart-metering, RMS, energy and fault diagnostics.

Challenges Facing Future Smart Grids

Challenges for smart grid deployment: increased infrastructure needs, missing communications and interoperability standards, cybersecurity gaps, and distributed generation planning.

Risks Facing Smart Grids and How to Prepare

Technical overview of smart grid security risks, historic power grid and IoT-based attacks, and layered defense measures including three-zone protection.

Design for Digital Secondary Circuits in Smart Substations

Technical design for smart substations proposing a per-bay digital secondary-circuit device to simplify IEC 61850 use, remove process-layer networks, and improve O&M reliability.

Lighting and Energy Control ICs and Sensors in Smart Grids

Technical overview of smart grid components, detailing smart meter power-measurement ICs, LED driver/lighting control ICs, and sensor roles for grid efficiency.

Common Causes of Circuit Breaker Trips: Case Studies

Diagnostic guide for circuit breaker trips across seven real cases, covering RCD leakage, undervoltage protection, wiring faults, conductor sizing (4 mm2) and breaker selection.

Power Modules for Electronic Systems

Review of smart grid electronics and power modules: power-supply designs, wide-input regulators, and low-quiescent solutions for meters, relays, gateways, and inverters.

Three Common Types of Solar Cells

Technical overview of thin-film solar cells, polymer multilayer electrodes, and nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells, with focus on materials, fabrication and efficiency.

Smart Grid: Bidirectional Energy and Information Exchange

Overview of smart grid evolution and the energy internet, detailing bidirectional power/info flows, distributed energy integration, EV storage, EMS and clustered grid control.

Integrated RF/MCU Solutions for Smart Energy Security

Technical overview of MCUs and integrated security for smart energy and smart metering: architectures, protocols, power optimizations, and standards.

Design and Application of a Microgrid Test Simulator

RTDS-driven microgrid test platform using a high-power grid simulator with external analog control: real-time verification, waveform tracking, and ~100 μs latency.

Upgrading Substations: Measuring Electrical Parameters

Technical overview of digital substation architecture and merging units, covering IEC 61850 sampled values, ADC/system design, fiber communications, and NCIT integration.

Intelligent Dispatch Automation for Smart Grids

Overview of smart grid dispatch automation: architectures, IEC 61850/61970 standards, digital substations, AMI and information-exchange platforms for two-way grid control.

Trends in Intelligent Electrical Switchgear Technology

Technical overview of intelligent switchgear upgrades and distribution automation, covering primary-secondary integration, fault detection, controllers and RMU retrofit.

Wi-SUN and PLC Communications for Smart Grids

Technical overview of smart-grid communication challenges for HEMS and smart meters, detailing Wi-SUN and PLC technologies, interoperability, certification, and development kits.

Evaluation Kits and Reference Designs for Smart Grid Development

Overview of IoT-based energy management for smart grids: MCU-based energy metering, communication reference designs, and evaluation kits to accelerate development.

Smart Plant Campus Communication Systems

Smart plant campus communication solution: unified IP network with gigabit access, 10GE aggregation and end-to-end QoS and security for converged services.

Communications Management Unit for Smart Grid Upgrades

ZLG communications management unit (DPU) for smart grid: M6Y2C Cortex-A7 core board specs, interfaces, protocol compatibility, low-power design and deployment use cases.

Modular Switchgear Designs and Cabinet Options

Overview of modular switchgear design, SF6-insulated load switches, and automated mechanisms; guidance on ring main unit parameters, neutral grounding, and automation interfaces.