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Today's cities are constantly balancing the need to provide valuable services to their communities, while at the same time face the demand to reduce the cost of operations and maintenance of their infrastructure. The future of the smart city is explicitly tied to having a community based, economically extendable network. These networks are critical for expanding safety and security solutions, enabling...
The interactive technical electronic book, TechEBook, currently under development at the University of Central Florida, provides a useful tool for engineers and scientists through unique features compared to the most used traditional electrical circuit textbooks available in the market. TechEBook has comprised the two worlds of classical circuit books and an interactive operating platform that can...
The intermittent nature of photovoltaic (PV) systems poses stability challenges to the distribution grid. The integration of ancillary services into distributed generation (DG) inverters is an effective approach to mitigate challenges related to intermittency. Petra Solar's Generator Emulation Controls (GEC) technology equips DG inverters with voltage support through Volt/VAr droop, low-voltage ride-through...
The interactive technical electronic book, TechEBook, currently under development at the University of Central Florida (UCF), introduces a paradigm shift by replacing the traditional electrical engineering course with topic-driven modules that provide a useful tool for engineers and scientists. The TechEBook comprises the two worlds of classical circuit books and interactive operating platforms such...
This paper describes a realistic computer simulation of airborne hurricane surveillance using the recently developed microwave remote sensor, the hurricane imaging radiometer (HIRAD). An end-to-end simulation is described of HIRAD wind speed and rain rate measurements during two hurricanes while flying on a high-altitude aircraft. This simulation addresses the particular challenge which is accurate...
Leading countries around the world have charted bold strategies over the past 3 years to emerge from the global economic depression. These strategies invariably included substantial investments in Smart Grids and Renewable Technologies. Utilities, manufacturers, consultants, and developers embraced the opportunity, and demonstrated many smart technologies, new and relabeled. An innovative emerging...
This paper describes the end-to-end simulation of the new HIRAD, which will provide improved hurricane surveillance. This paper (part-2 of 2) evaluates the HIRAD instrument performance in retrieving hurricane-force wind speeds in the presence of intense rain. Examples of retrieved hurricane wind speed and rain rate images are presented, and comparisons of the retrieved parameters with the MM5 numerical...
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