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

Citation
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
  Department of Electrical Engineering, 5, March, 2008.

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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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