Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions (Power Engineering) (Hardcover)
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Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks (Power Systems) (Hardcover)
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"A must-read for professionals in power engineering and utility industries, researchers, PhD students and postgraduates working in the field of distributed electrical power systems, a oePower Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networksa presents the features, solutions and applications of the power electronics arrangements useful for future smart electrical energy networks. It will make an good reference for facility electrical power engineers and maintenance technicians (more...)
Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation (Signals and Communication Technology) (Hardcover)
Grid architectures, which are viewed as tools for the integration of distributed resources, play a significant role as both managers of computational resources but also as aggregators of measurement instrumentation and pervasive large-scale data acquisition platforms. The functionality of a grid architecture allows managing, maintaining, and exploiting hetereogeneous instrumentation and acquisition devices in a unifed way by providing standardized interfaces and common work environm (more...)
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Distributed Data Management in Grid Environments (Hardcover)
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"This is the most complete book I've read to date on the subject, and the lack of technical expertise requirements make it a fair choice for a wide audience." (IEEE Distributed Systems Online, January 2006)
Discover grid computing-how to successfully build, implement, and manage widely distributed computing architecture With technology budgets under increasing scrutiny and system architecture becoming more and more complex, many organizations are rethinking how they (more...)
Computer-Aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry (Hardcover)
In this new look at energy business operations, an expert team of scientists and engineers provide a road map for transforming energy business capabilities to meet growth imperatives in an increasingly competitive global economy. Extended to the energy industry are the best practices in computational sciences and the lean management principles currently used in other leading manufacturing industries. Computer-aided lean management (CALM) methodology uses the common-sense approach o (more...)
The Smart Grid: Enabling Energy Efficiency and Demand Response (Hardcover)
The power system has often been cited as the greatest and most complex machine ever built, yet it is predominantly a mechanical system. Technologies and intelligent systems are now available that can significantly enhance the overall functionality of power distribution and make it ready to meet the needs of the 21st century. This book explains how sensors, communications technologies, computational ability, control, and feedback mechanisms can be effectively combined to create this ne (more...)