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Residential Demand Response Wireless Sensor Network
Coalton Bennett, Judith Cardell, Stephen Wicker

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Coalton Bennett, Judith Cardell, Stephen Wicker. "Residential Demand Response Wireless Sensor Network". Fourth Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference on the Electricity Industry, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical Engineering, 5, March, 2008.

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to show how a network, of wireless current sensors can be used to help consumers, at the residential level, monitor and control appliances, within their home in order to lower both total peak electricity demand and the individual’s electricity costs. This project proposes a novel; new, and promising demand response technology, by monitoring these appliances. The principal component of this system is a wireless current sensor which, when coupled with user preferences, will notify customer’s when a predefined threshold in power consumption has been surpassed based on the current readings taken. This is accomplished by querying the regional ISOs website for real time pricing information, in five minute intervals. We provide the results of our experiment and then discuss our future work. Which will be a comparison between existing technologies with similar sensing capabilities, such as the Watts Up meter and Faraday couplers with 802.11 wireless networking capabilities.

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    href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/347.html"
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    Network</a>, Fourth Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference
    on the Electricity Industry, Carnegie Mellon University
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    Coalton Bennett, Judith Cardell, Stephen Wicker.
    "Residential Demand Response Wireless Sensor
    Network". Fourth Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference on
    the Electricity Industry, Carnegie Mellon University
    Department of Electrical Engineering, 5, March, 2008.
  • BibTeX
    @inproceedings{BennettCardellWicker08_ResidentialDemandResponseWirelessSensorNetwork,
        author = {Coalton Bennett and Judith Cardell and Stephen
                  Wicker},
        title = {Residential Demand Response Wireless Sensor Network},
        booktitle = {Fourth Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference on the
                  Electricity Industry},
        organization = {Carnegie Mellon University Department of
                  Electrical Engineering},
        pages = {5},
        month = {March},
        year = {2008},
        abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to show how a
                  network, of wireless current sensors can be used
                  to help consumers, at the residential level,
                  monitor and control appliances, within their home
                  in order to lower both total peak electricity
                  demand and the individual’s electricity costs.
                  This project proposes a novel; new, and promising
                  demand response technology, by monitoring these
                  appliances. The principal component of this system
                  is a wireless current sensor which, when coupled
                  with user preferences, will notify customer’s
                  when a predefined threshold in power consumption
                  has been surpassed based on the current readings
                  taken. This is accomplished by querying the
                  regional ISOs website for real time pricing
                  information, in five minute intervals. We provide
                  the results of our experiment and then discuss our
                  future work. Which will be a comparison between
                  existing technologies with similar sensing
                  capabilities, such as the Watts Up meter and
                  Faraday couplers with 802.11 wireless networking
                  capabilities. },
        URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/347.html}
    }
    

Posted by Coalton Bennett on 31 Mar 2008.
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