A smart microcontroller-based iridium satellite-communication architecture for a remote renewable energy source

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1869-1875

  Deep, Ujjwal Dahal ^a   Petersen, Brent R ^b   Meng, Julian ^b  

^a Bhutan Power Corporation   (Bhutan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Iridium; Microcontroller; Nonlinear programming; Renewable energy; Satellite communications; Smart systems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES; COST OPTIMIZATION; DATA TRANSCEIVERS; DATA TRANSMISSION; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS; GENERATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GREEN TECHNOLOGY; IRIDIUM SATELLITE; MICROCONTROLLER TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION ROUTINE; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY; SMART COMMUNICATION; SMART SYSTEMS; TELEMETRY DATA; WIND ENERGY;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONTROLLERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IRIDIUM; MESH GENERATION; MICROCONTROLLERS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES;

WIND POWER;

EID: 70350271157     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2028803     Document Type: Article

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