Virtual to Reality Emulator for Electrical Loads

Luis Gomes; Zita Vale

doi:10.5281/zenodo.2677528

Published January 31, 2018 | Version v1

Conference paper Open

Virtual to Reality Emulator for Electrical Loads

1. GECAD – Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development, Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal

The test and validation of demand side management systems are a priority before installing this systems in real
environments. This paper presents a load emulator that acts as an energy analyzer. This emulator enables its
installation in physical environments, fooling the metering systems. This capability allows the placement of the
emulator in a physical metering system while emulating a load that is not there. In a R&D center the emulator
can be used to create buildings by placing several emulators for load emulation and using a real and physical
metering system to read the consumption data while demand side management algorithms and techniques are
used. Using the proposed emulator, the gap between research and real implementations can be fulfill in the
laboratories to test and validate demand side management systems. The paper presents the emulator and its
results.

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This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 641794 (project DREAMGO) and from FEDER Funds through COMPETE program and from National Funds through FCT, under the project UID/EEA/00760/2013.

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