Abstract
Demand Side Management (DSM) is presently gaining momentum in nearly all the world. Lack of primary energy resources, lack of generation capacity, and the need to reduce emissions all combined together are pushing world utilities into exploring the extent DSM techniques can play in their favor. To that end, a cheap and reliable communication means is necessary to make DSM projects of a sound economic value. Power line communication (PLC) technology has a huge potential to become the favored communication technology for DSM, since there is no extra investment is put in dedicated communication cables. This paper presents a prototype for a DSM regime. The prototype is composed of a central station, which monitors different loads. Load data is collected at the load stations and sent back to the central station via PLC. The central station contains the DSM algorithm, whether peak limiting, load shifting, etc. Control signals are carried back to load stations. The prototype has been successfully experimented with dummy loads.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - The 2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, ICCES'09 |
| Pages | 527-531 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
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| State | Published - 2009 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - The 2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, ICCES'09 |
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Bibliographical note
Funding Information:1This work was support in part by the National Institutes of Health AI-15193, the Slaner Foundation, and the Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt.
Keywords
- Demand side management
- Power line communication
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering