Grid Vue laboratory, Where Grid Visions Meet Insight

Electric Vehicle Powertrain

Hybrid Battery and Supercapacitor Management Systems, EV and Utility Vehicle Powertrain Control, Double-Stator Switched Reluctance Motor Drive

DER Affordability

Improving the affordability of distributed energy resources (DERs) through Module Level Power Electronics, Battery management, and Computation decoupling.

Smart grid Interoperability

Enhancing Smart Grid Interoperability and data exchange by integrating AI and contextual language models.

Grid Digitization

Driving grid digitization and fault recovery using software-defined microgrid systems, digital twin technologies, and data-driven controls.

Community Energy Planning

Enhancing remote community engagement through interactive energy AI, and the promotion of community-owned utilities.

Grid Cyber Security

Developing secure and privacy-centric peer-to-peer energy planning and local energy markets using distributed ledger technology.

Bridging Theory to Reality: Framing Our Research into Practical Solutions

Hybrid Supercapacitor/Battery Inverter:

  • Bi-directional inverter for grid-tied or islanded operation.
  • Multi modes: backup, self-supply, and export limiting.
  • Modular and scalable for adaptable energy needs.
  • Advanced hybrid storage management.

Multi-tier EVSE Energy Management System:

  • Dynamic real-time EVSE and non-EV load management.
  • Wi-SUN mesh network protocol compatible with AMI 2.0.
  • Embedded AI and on-device data imputation.
  • Compatible with ISO 15118 and OCPP 2.0.1.

Modular Smart Meter:

  • Compliant with ANSI C12.20, Revenue Grade.
  • Support LAN, Wifi, Zigbee, and Lora.
  • Bi-directional 208-600 Vac meter configurations.
  • Support TLS 1.2 cipher suites.

DER Interoperable adapter:

  • Sunspec inverter model 101-103.
  • Sunspec meter model 201.
  • IEEE 2030.5 DER and metering function sets.
  • Compliant with IEEE 802.3,4,5,11,15.
µ-Tie platform diagram

µ-Tie© all smart grid devices in to one platform

A federated and transactive DERMS that addresses these challenges using a multi-layered and distributed ledger technology employing IEEE 2030.5-2018 and smart grid interoperability standards. The µTies software framework utilizes lightweight federated byzantine agreement technology to improve resiliency, security, transparency, social resiliency, and privacy.

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