• Novel Segmentation Technique for Measured Three-Phase Voltage Dips 

      Moreno-García, Isabel; Bollen, M.H.J.; Gu, Irene Y.H.; Gil-de-Castro, Aurora; Moreno-Muñoz, A. (MDPI, 2015)
      This paper focuses on issues arising from the need to automatically analyze disturbances in the future (smart) grid. Accurate time allocation of events and the sequences of events is an important part of such an analysis. ...
    • Development of a wireless low power datalogger with high performance converter 

      Quiles-Latorre, Francisco Javier; Ortiz, Manuel; Gersnoviez, Andrés; Brox-Jiménez, María; Olivares, Alberto; Glösekötter, Peter (Kaunas University of Technology, 2015)
      In this work, a low power datalogger with a wireless connection is described. The datalogger can be used as a portable and stand-alone device, as well as a wireless sensor network node. A flexible architecture, which ...
    • Real-Time Monitoring System for a Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plant 

      Moreno-García, Isabel; Palacios García, Emilio; Pallarés López, Víctor; Santiago, Isabel; González Redondo, Miguel Jesús; Varo-Martínez, Marta; Real Calvo, Rafael Jesús (MDPI, 2016)
      There is, at present, considerable interest in the storage and dispatchability of photovoltaic (PV) energy, together with the need to manage power flows in real-time. This paper presents a new system, PV-on time, which ...
    • An Embedded System in Smart Inverters for Power Quality and Safety Functionality 

      Real Calvo, Rafael Jesús; Pallarés López, Víctor; González Redondo, Miguel Jesús; Moreno-García, Isabel; González de la Rosa, Juan José; Moreno-Muñoz, A. (MDPI, 2016)
      The electricity sector is undergoing an evolution that demands the development of a network model with a high level of intelligence, known as a Smart Grid. One of the factors accelerating these changes is the development ...
    • Streetlight Control System Based on Wireless Communication over DALI Protocol 

      Bellido Outeiriño, Francisco José; Quiles-Latorre, Francisco Javier; Moreno Moreno, Carlos Diego; Flores Arias, José María; Moreno-García, Isabel; Ortiz-López, Manuel (MDPI, 2016)
      Public lighting represents a large part of the energy consumption of towns and cities. Efficient management of public lighting can entail significant energy savings. This work presents a smart system for managing public ...
    • Homomorphic Filtering for Improving Time Synchronization in Wireless Networks 

      Castillo Secilla, José María; Palomares Muñoz, José Manuel; León, Fernando; Olivares Bueno, Joaquín (MDPI, 2017)
      Wireless sensor networks are used to sample the environment in a distributed way. Therefore, it is mandatory for all of the measurements to be tightly synchronized in order to guarantee that every sensor is sampling the ...
    • Graphical Diagnosis of Performances in Photovoltaic Systems: A Case Study in Southern Spain 

      Santiago, Isabel; Trillo Montero, David; Luna Rodríguez, J.J.; Moreno-García, Isabel; Palacios García, Emilio (MDPI, 2017)
      The starting point of the operation and maintenance tasks in photovoltaic plants is the continuous monitoring and supervision of its components. The great amount of registered data requires a major improvement in the ...
    • PV Hosting Capacity Analysis and Enhancement Using High Resolution Stochastic Modeling 

      Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Santiago, Isabel; Moreno-García, Isabel; Milanés-Montero, María-Isabel (MDPI, 2017)
      Reduction of CO2 emissions is a main target in the future smart grid. This goal is boosting the installation of renewable energy resources (RES), as well as a major consumer engagement that seeks for a more efficient ...
    • mDARAL: A Multi-Radio Version for the DARAL Routing Algorithm 

      Estévez, Francisco José; Castillo Secilla, José María; González, Jesús; Olivares Bueno, Joaquín; Glösekötter, Peter (MDPI, 2017)
      Smart Cities are called to change the daily life of human beings. This concept permits improving the efficiency of our cities in several areas such as the use of water, energy consumption, waste treatment, and mobility ...
    • Active, Reactive and Harmonic Control for Distributed Energy Micro-Storage Systems in Smart Communities Homes 

      Milanés-Montero, María-Isabel; Barrero-González, Fermín; Pando-Acedo, Jaime; González-Romera, Eva; Moreno-Muñoz, A. (MDPI, 2017)
      This paper aims to provide control strategies for distributed micro-storage energy systems at the residential level to contribute to smart grid goals. A simulation model of an energy storage system (ESS) charger has been ...
    • Honey Bee Colonies Remote Monitoring System 

      Gil-Lebrero, Sergio; Quiles-Latorre, Francisco Javier; Ortiz-López, Manuel; Sánchez-Ruiz, Víctor; Gámiz-López, Victoria; Luna Rodríguez, J.J. (MDPI, 2017)
      Bees are very important for terrestrial ecosystems and, above all, for the subsistence of many crops, due to their ability to pollinate flowers. Currently, the honey bee populations are decreasing due to colony collapse ...
    • Development and application of a smart grid test bench 

      Moreno-García, Isabel; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Pallarés López, Víctor; González Redondo, Miguel Jesús; Palacios García, Emilio; Moreno Moreno, Carlos Diego (Elsevier, 2017)
      The current upward trend in large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) in distribution networks has fueled interest in knowing their power quality issues (PQ), even in nearly real-time scale when possible. ...
    • High-speed and low-cost implementation of explicit model predictive controllers 

      Gersnoviez, Andrés; Brox-Jiménez, María; Baturone, Iluminada (IEEE, 2017)
      This paper presents a new form of piecewise-affine (PWA) solution, referred to as PWA hierarchical (PWAH), to approximate the explicit model predictive control (MPC) law, achieving a very rapid control response with the ...
    • Museo sobre la historia de los computadores 

      Gersnoviez, Andrés; Brox-Jiménez, María; Ortiz, M.A.; Quiles, Francisco J.; Moreno, C.D.; Moreno, A.; Montijano, M.A. (UCOPress, 2017)
      El grupo docente de Arquitectura de Computadores tiene en su haber una gran cantidad de dispositivos relacionados con la historia del PC. Este material se encontraba confinado en un almacén y el objetivo principal a ...
    • Power Quality Monitoring Integration into Distribution Automation through the Use of AMR 

      Bellido, F.; Oterino, D.; G. de la Rosa, J.J.; Moreno-Muñoz, A. (2017-02-03)
      Power-quality events are of increasing concern for the economy because today’s equipment, particularly computers and automated manufacturing devices, is highly sensitive to such imperfections. With volatile energy rates ...
    • Power quality events detection using fourth-order spectra 

      González de la Rosa, Juan José; Sierra-Fernández, José María; Agüera Pérez, Agustín; Palomares-Salas, José Carlos; Moreno-Muñoz, A. (2017-12-07)
      This paper introduces the use of a fourth-order frequency-domain statistical estimator, the spectral kurtosis (SK), in the field of power-quality analysis. The research has been organized in the frame of a research ...
    • Nuevas estrategias para la elaboración de TFG en Inglés: tutorías entre iguales y mini-vídeos docentes 

      Huertas Abril, Cristina; Gómez Parra, María Elena; Larrea Espinar, Ángela; Raigón Rodríguez, Antonio R.; Bullejos Martín, David; Villamandos de la Torre, Francisco; Olivares Bueno, Joaquín; Palomares Muñoz, José Manuel; Trillo Holgado, María Amalia; Delgado Serrano, María del Mar; López Reifs, Magdalena (UCOPress, 2018)
      La redacción de textos académicos en inglés está íntimamente relacionada con la competencia lingüística que el alumnado universitario ha de desarrollar (B1 como requisito lingüístico mínimo previo a su graduación) y que, ...
    • Novel Internet of Things Platform for In-Building Power Quality Submetering 

      Alonso-Rosa, Manuel; Gil-de-Castro, Aurora; Medina-Gracia, Ricardo; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; Cañete-Carmona, Eduardo (MDPI, 2018)
      As the number of facilities adopting a Building Management System under the Industry 4.0 paradigm increases, it is critical to ensure the good health of their operations. Business continuity and uninterrupted operations ...
    • D2R-TED: Data—Domain ReductionModel for Threshold-Based Event Detection in Sensor Networks 

      León, Fernando; Palomares Muñoz, José Manuel; Olivares Bueno, Joaquín (MDPI, 2018)
      The reduction of sensor network traffic has become a scientific challenge. Different compression techniques are applied for this purpose, offering general solutions which try to minimize the loss of information. Here, a ...
    • SmartWinery: A Real-Time Monitoring System for Structural Health and Ullage in Fino StyleWine Casks 

      Cañete-Carmona, Eduardo; Chen, Jaime; Martín, Cristian; Rubio, Bartolomé (MDPI, 2018)
      The rapid development in low-cost sensor and wireless communication technology has made it possible for a large number of devices to coexist and exchange information autonomously. It has been predicted that a substantial ...