A method of biasing and reading-out a passive resistive sensor structure having two excitation nodes and two readout nodes, comprises the steps of: a) determining a first state of a first capacitor corresponding to a first amount of charge biasing the sensor structure such that a biasing current flows through said first capacitor during a first time interval determining a second state of the first capacitor corresponding to a second amount of charge integrating or averaging the readout signal during a second time interval related to the first time interval, thereby obtaining an integrated or averaged readout signal determining the sensor readout signal based on the integrated or averaged readout signal and a change in state of the first capacitor.

A method for performing synchrophasor estimation of an input signal, whereby the input signal is a sinusoidal power system voltage or current signal, comprising: a. Periodic sampling of a continuous time-domain waveform, consisting of a power system voltage or current signal, to obtain a discrete time-domain function; b. Transforming a discrete time-domain function to a discrete frequency-domain function; c. Estimating from the discrete frequency-domain function the instantaneous parameters of a synchrophasor of the sampled continuous time-domain waveform, the instantaneous parameters comprising a frequency, an amplitude and a phase angle. The method is directed to an improvement of the enhanced IpDFT-based synchrophasor estimation which takes into account interharmonic tones.

An electrical current measurement circuit is provided. The electrical current measurement circuit is configured to receive a sense current proportionally related to an electrical current of interest to continuously charge a capacitor to a sense voltage. The electrical current measurement circuit is configured to determine whether the sense voltage reaches a predefined voltage threshold and reduce the sense voltage to below the predefined voltage threshold in response to the sense voltage reaching the predefined voltage threshold. The electrical current measurement circuit counts each occurrence of the sense voltage reaching the predefined voltage threshold and quantifies the electrical current based on a total count of the sense voltage reaching the predefined voltage threshold during the predefined measurement period. By incorporating the electrical current measurement circuit in an electronic device, it may be possible to accurately monitor and thus help to optimize power consumption and battery life of the electronic device.

The invention relates to a device for measuring an electrical quantity of one phase of an AC electric current in an overhead electrical network, comprising: a sensor designed to be attached to an electric line of the network, the sensor including: an electrically conductive plate; an electrical conductor, designed to electrically connect the plate to the line, in order to circulate a first current from the line through the conductor; a processing unit, designed to determine the electrical quantity from value values of the first electric current and a value of a capacitance between the plate and ground. The device also comprises a generator, electrically connected to the conductor and designed to inject a second current through the conductor, the second current having a frequency other than the frequency of the first current, the processing unit also being designed to calculate the capacitance between the plate and ground as a function of the second current.

An energy consumption management system and an energy consumption management method are provided. The method includes detecting an electricity status of an electronic device at a current time point to generate electricity detection data; calculating an energy consumption parameter set having a plurality of energy consumption parameters; determining a plurality of feature value corresponding to a plurality of feature rules according to the energy consumption parameters and the feature rules, wherein the feature values form a feature set corresponding to the current time point; determining a current energy consumption operation status of the electronic device according to the feature values and an activity model corresponding to the electronic device; and controlling the electronic device according to the current energy consumption operation status and a preset operation schedule of the electronic device. The method further includes learning the activity model according to electricity detection history data of the electronic device.

A method determines a fault position on a line of a power supply network. Transient profiles of current and voltage values are measured at the line ends of the line and, by using the transient profiles, after the occurrence of a fault, a fault position is determined. To carry out fault location with high accuracy even in the case of a line having more than two line ends, transient profiles of a node current and a node voltage at a node point are determined by using the current and voltage values of a line end and a traveling wave model for the respective line section, and, for each line section, a two-sided fault position determination is carried out using the transient profile of the current and voltage values measured at its line end and, the node current and the node voltage and the traveling wave model for this line section.

Provided is a current measurement apparatus having a function to correct a current based on system information.

The current measurement apparatus includes: a current sensing element generating a signal according to a current to be measured; a current measurement means measuring an amount of the current to be measured from the signal outputted from the current sensing element; a communication unit receiving system information from at least one upper-level controller; a correction amount calculation unit calculating information on an amount of a corrected current based on the amount of the current to be measured and the system information; and a measurement operation unit outputting the information on the amount of the corrected current to the at least one upper-level controller.

According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce a non-linear current measurement error varying depending on a magnitude or a frequency of the current to be measured.

The anomaly detection device according to an embodiment has a calculator and a determiner. The calculator is configured to calculate a degree of anomaly according to a predictive value that is predicted through machine learning using data acquired from a target device and a measurement value that is actually measured for the target device. The determiner is configured to determine whether a change of the degree of anomaly indicates an anomaly of the target device according to a degree of a change of the degree of anomaly calculated by the calculator within a predetermined time range.

Systems and methods described herein provide a current sensor having fault detection circuitry configured to detect over-current and/or current faults corresponding to current through a conductor being greater than a predetermined level. The current sensor can include a shared signal path, a main signal path, and a fault detection signal path to perform both fault detection and current detection signal processing. The current sensor can include one or more magnetic field sensing elements configured to generate a magnetic field signal indicative of the current through the conductor, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive the magnetic field signal and convert the magnetic field signal into a digital signal, and a fault detector responsive to the digital signal to generate a fault signal indicative of the current through the conductor being greater than a predetermined level.

Provided is a server (10) including an attribute information receiving unit (15) which receives attribute information of an electric power output apparatus (30) from the electric power output apparatus (30) having a function of outputting electric power; an output condition transmitting unit (18) which transmits an output condition determined in accordance with the attribute information to the electric power output apparatus (30); a processing result receiving unit (16) which receives a processing result obtained by performing predetermined processing on output waveform data at the time when the electric power output apparatus (30) outputs electric power according to the output condition; and an evaluating unit (17) which evaluates an electric power output performance of the electric power output apparatus (30) on the basis of the processing result and the output condition.