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Title: Method and system employing graphical electric load categorization to identify one of a plurality of different electric load types

Abstract

A system for different electric loads includes sensors structured to sense voltage and current signals for each of the different electric loads; a hierarchical load feature database having a plurality of layers, with one of the layers including a plurality of different load categories; and a processor. The processor acquires voltage and current waveforms from the sensors for a corresponding one of the different electric loads; maps a voltage-current trajectory to a grid including a plurality of cells, each of which is assigned a binary value of zero or one; extracts a plurality of different features from the mapped grid of cells as a graphical signature of the corresponding one of the different electric loads; derives a category of the corresponding one of the different electric loads from the database; and identifies one of a plurality of different electric load types for the corresponding one of the different electric loads.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
EATON CORPORATION, Cleveland, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1324664
Patent Number(s):
9442999
Application Number:
13/912,819
Assignee:
EATON CORPORATION (Cleveland, OH)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
DOE Contract Number:  
EE0003911
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2013 Jun 07
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 42 ENGINEERING; 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION

Citation Formats

Yang, Yi, and Du, Liang. Method and system employing graphical electric load categorization to identify one of a plurality of different electric load types. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Yang, Yi, & Du, Liang. Method and system employing graphical electric load categorization to identify one of a plurality of different electric load types. United States.
Yang, Yi, and Du, Liang. Tue . "Method and system employing graphical electric load categorization to identify one of a plurality of different electric load types". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1324664.
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