Impact of non-deterministic software execution times in SmartGrid applications

David Smith; Cristian Olariu; Philip Perry; John Murphy

doi:10.1109/ISSC.2015.7163775

Impact of non-deterministic software execution times in SmartGrid applications

David Smith, Cristian Olariu, Philip Perry, John Murphy

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Abstract

Electricity companies will only allow customers to inject power into the grid network if the customer's system is in synch with both frequency and phase as the grid itself. This is normally achieved using a specialised machine sold by the energy provider. It may be possible to achieve this via low cost, low power nodes such as a Raspberry Pi, to synchronize frequency and phase as well as voltage and current. In order to synchronize to microsecond or nanosecond precision, the hardware being deployed must in itself be able to achieve said precision when coupled with software. In this paper we evaluate the level of non-deterministic execution times in two versions of a widespread embedded compute platform, namely Raspberry Pi.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 26th Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2015
Place of Publication	Carlow, Ireland
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467369749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2015.7163775
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Jan 2015
Event	26th Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2015 - Carlow, Ireland Duration: 24 Jun 2015 → 25 Jun 2015

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Conference	26th Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2015
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Carlow
Period	24/06/15 → 25/06/15

Keywords

IoT
SmartGrid
Software
Timing

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Smith, D, Olariu, C, Perry, P & Murphy, J 2015, Impact of non-deterministic software execution times in SmartGrid applications. in 2015 26th Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2015., 7163775, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Carlow, Ireland, pp. 1-5, 26th Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2015, Carlow, Ireland, 24/06/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSC.2015.7163775

Impact of non-deterministic software execution times in SmartGrid applications. / Smith, David; Olariu, Cristian; Perry, Philip et al.
2015 26th Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2015. Carlow, Ireland: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 1-5 7163775.

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