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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2017
Utopus Insights, Inc., Valhalla, NY (US);
Aanchal Goyal, White Plains, NY (US);
Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Bronx, NY (US);
Younghun Kim, White Plains, NY (US);
Tarun Kumar, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
UTOPUS INSIGHTS, INC., Valhalla, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method to produce an electric network from estimated line impedance and physical line length among smart meter devices is provided using communication between the smart meters. The smart meters: (1) synchronize time using GPS pps signals, which provide an accurate time stamp; (2) send/receive an identifiable signal through the same phase of electric networks; (3) identify other smart meters on the same phase lines by listening to the information signal on the same phase lines; and (4) calculate time-of-arrival of an identifiable signal from other smart meters. The time of arrival information is used to calculate the line length, which is then used to calculate impedance of a line and topology of the electric network. The system then constructs an electric network by combining geo-spatial information and tree-like usual connection information.