https://openpowerquality.org/blog Open Power Quality Blog 2020-08-04T06:00:00Z Feed for Node.js The best place to stay up-to-date with the latest Open Power Quality news and events. https://openpowerquality.org/img/opqlogo_white.png Copyright © 2020Open Power Quality <![CDATA[OPQ Study published in Energies]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2020/08/04/energies.html 2020-08-04T06:00:00Z The OPQ team is happy to announce the publication of an article in the journal Energies entitled : "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Open Power Quality".

Here's the abstract:

Modern electrical grids are transitioning from a central...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[Serge Negrashov completes Ph.D. dissertation]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2020/03/10/serge-dissertation.html 2020-03-10T06:00:00Z

The OPQ team is delighted to announce that Serge Negrashov has successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation: "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Napali: A novel distributed sensor network for improved power quality monitoring". Th...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[Anthony Christe completes Ph.D. dissertation]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2020/02/24/anthony-dissertation.html 2020-02-24T06:00:00Z

The OPQ team is delighted to announce the Anthony Christe has successfully completed his Ph.D. dissertation: "LAHA: A framework for adaptive optimization of distributed sensor frameworks". The complete dissertation is available at http://...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[University of Hawaii releases video on OPQ]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2019/10/27/video.html 2019-10-27T06:00:00Z As part of the 2019 University of Hawaii Future Focus Conference, the University developed a short video on the Open Power Quality project which was shown to attendees. This video is now publicly available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGrQcy...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQ collaborates with Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2019/10/07/epri.html 2019-10-07T06:00:00Z The OPQ Team is pleased to announce its collaboration with EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute). For the past six months, EPRI has been evaluating OPQ technology to assess its ability to support the evaluation of advanced power quality analytics ...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQ's transient classification system published in Energy 2019]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2019/06/01/energy-2019.html 2019-06-01T06:00:00Z We are pleased to announce the publication of "A transient classification system implementation on an open source distributed power quality network", by Charles Dickens, Anthony J. Christe, and Philip M. Johnson, in the Ninth International ...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQ Ph.D. proposals now available]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2018/11/30/phd-proposals.html 2018-11-30T06:00:00Z We are delighted to announce the publication of two Ph.D. proposals related to Open Power Quality. These proposals provide you with an nice overview of the major innovations we intend to implement within OPQ during 2019. Enjoy!

Design, implementatio...

]]> Philip Johnson https://philipmjohnson.org/ <![CDATA[OPQ T-Shirts ]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2018/11/20/shirts.html 2018-11-20T06:00:00Z

OPQ finally has t-shirts thanks to the design efforts of Camelia Lai! From left, Charles Dickens, Kaila Foltz, Anthony Christe, and Philip Johnson doing a group selfie at the 2018 Fall Vertically Integrated Projects demonstration.

The back of the s...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org/ <![CDATA[OPQ wins runner up prize in Electromaker Connectivity Contest]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2018/06/20/electromaker-connectivity-contest.html 2018-06-20T06:00:00Z We are delighted to announce that the Open Power Quality project was selected as a "runner up" in the Electromaker Connectivity Contest. We will be receiving an Electromaker swag bag in recognition for our efforts. ]]> Serge Negrashov https://sergey-negrashov.github.io/ <![CDATA[Negrashov wins ARCS Fellowship]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2018/04/12/negrashov-arcs-award.html 2018-04-12T06:00:00Z

In part due to his work on Open Power Quality, ICS Ph.D. student Serge Negrashov is the 2018 recipient of the Martin Award for Information and Computer Science from the ARCS Foundation--Honolulu. We are very proud of Serge!

]]> Serge Negrashov https://sergey-negrashov.github.io/ <![CDATA[OPQ at VIP]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2018/04/09/vip-presentations.html 2018-04-09T06:00:00Z

The Open Power Quality Project presented at the Spring 2018 "Vertically Integrated Projects showcase" at the University of Hawaii. Pictured standing from left to right: Anthony Christe, Kea Uehara, Kaila Foltz, and Evan Hataishi. Kneeling...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQ wins UH President's Green Award]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2018/02/08/green-award.html 2018-02-08T06:00:00Z

The Open Power Quality Project won a 2108 University of Hawaii President's Green Award for a project to provide agile power quality monitoring to support the UH net-zero energy mandate and microgrid operations at UH Manoa. The award is accompanied b...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQ presents at Kyushu University's Energy Week ]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2018/02/01/kyushu.html 2018-02-01T06:00:00Z

Anthony Christe was invited to attend Energy Week 2018 at Kyushu University, Japan and present ideas for collaboration between Kyushu University energy researchers and the Open Power Quality project.

Our proposals for collaboration include topics o...

]]> Anthony Christe https://anthonyjchriste.github.io/ <![CDATA[OPQ Fall 2017 Update]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2017/09/06/opq-fall-update.html 2017-09-06T06:00:00Z It's been too long since we published an OPQ news item! We're working hard on rolling out a vastly improved version of OPQ:

  • OPQ now supports a suite of cloud-based services called Mauka, Makai, and View. This increases the flexibility and scalabilit...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[2016 Year in Review]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2016/12/06/opq-year-end-review.html 2016-12-06T06:00:00Z Serge Negrashov put together this nice slide deck to summarize progress on the OPQ hardware project. Enjoy!

]]> Serge Negrashov https://sergey-negrashov.github.io/ <![CDATA[OPQBox engineering samples now running!]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2016/12/01/opqbox2.html 2016-12-01T06:00:00Z

Just in time for the holidays! We have assembled a small batch of OPQBoxes with our latest design, and they are now collecting and sending data to our new software infrastructure. We are excited about this design as it should provide higher accurac...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[Google groups is dead; long live Slack!]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2016/11/30/slack.html 2016-11-30T06:00:00Z As some of you might have noticed, our OPQ Google Group has been dormant for quite a while.

It's not because we haven't been working or communicating, it's because we've moved over to Slack for our internal communications. We've recently decided to o...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQBox2 Design, V3]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2015/09/22/opqbox2.html 2015-09-22T06:00:00Z We are super, duper psyched to announce that a third design for our second generation OPQBox hardware device is now available for review at the OPQBox2 Repo Home Page.

We are making engineering samples of this design, although we are also continuing ...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQBox2 Design, V2]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2015/01/29/opqbox2.html 2015-01-29T06:00:00Z We are super psyched to announce that a second design for our second generation OPQBox hardware device is now available for review at the OPQBox2 Repo Home Page.

This version of the design incorporates lots of fixes found during the "initial&quo...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQBox2 design available for review]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2014/10/27/opqbox2.html 2014-10-27T06:00:00Z We have recently completed the initial design of the second generation of our OPQBox hardware device.

If you are interested in reviewing our design, please see the OPQBox2 repository.

Looking forward to your commments and suggestions!

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[Pipeline pilot published!]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2014/10/20/pilot-study.html 2014-10-20T06:00:00Z The pilot study of the first generation of OPQ hardware and software is mostly complete, and we have written up our results here.

The pilot study provided insight into the strengths and weaknesses of our hardware and software platform, and also demon...

]]> Philip Johnson <![CDATA[Pipeline pilot begins!]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2014/08/01/g1-pilot.html 2014-08-01T06:00:00Z The OPQ team is delighted to announce the start of a pilot study to evaluate our Generation 1 (Pipeline) technology.

The pilot study will involve deployment of 5 OPQBoxes to various locations around Oahu, with the data sent to our public OPQHub.

The ...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[Technical Report: Enabling active participation in the Smart Grid through crowdsourced power quality data]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2014/04/02/techreport.html 2014-04-02T06:00:00Z The OPQ team has published a technical report proposing a three year project to investigate the use of open power quality.

Abstract: This technical report presents a research project designed to gain insight into the following questions: Can crowdsou...

]]> Philip Johnson http://philipmjohnson.org <![CDATA[OPQ at the Energy Excelerator]]> https://openpowerquality.org/blog/2014/02/04/excelerator.html 2014-02-04T06:00:00Z Last week Justin Carland and Philip Johnson participated in the Energy Excelerator's 2014 Seed Week program. Representatives from nine energy-related startups attended an 8 day immersive experience at the Energy Excelerator offices in downtown Honolu...

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