Vorwort

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Energy Sales & Care: IT-Lösung für den Energievertrieb — Das Zusammenspiel von Handel und Vertrieb in der Energieversorgung

October 1, 2001 is approaching Austria’s power supplying companies with giant strides. From that time on these companies have to meet the general conditions of the EIWOG 2000 as well as they have to fulfil the directive of the internal market of the European Union and further published statute basics from the regulator. An increased readiness for changing regarding household customers is not predictable, however, it is foreseeable that one or another power customer will switch to an alternative provider. This and further facts caused by the liberalization process lead to the situation, that on one hand there are completely new and on the other hand changed conventional business processes for the power suppliers. Traditional methods and equipment will not suffice anymore. Therefore it is necessary, that energy supply companies and offerers of IT-solutions create the appropriate solution, which is adapted for the particular power supplying company. Energy Sales & Care, a modularly constructed and always expandable product for tomorrow’s power supplier can cover this shortage in a responsible way.     

CIRED 2001: Session 6 — Management, Organisation, Qualifikation

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EPMCC 2001 — Forum der Telekommunikationspioniere des 21. Jahrhunderts

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Prinzipien der Powerline Communication

The liberalization of the electricity and telecommunications markets has paved the way for harnessing existing electricity supply networks to transfer data from the low-voltage transformer station right through to every mains socket in a building. Powerline communication (PLC) allows for coupling power supply with data transmission. The modulation or demodulation calls for state-of-the-art, fast chip technologies as well as algorithms. According to powerline companies, the first generation of products is to be launched in the year 2001. Further development of this system depends completely on the regulation of the respective frequency levels. If regulatory measures and the market were to favor powerline technology, electric utility companies could come to play a role as telecom providers.     

Heuristische Konfiguration und Scheduling für Echtzeitsysteme

In this paper we describe the scheduling of processes, threads and messages for a distributed hard-and software system (for air traffic control) which is supported by heuristics. Furthermore, we show how such application specific heuristics are linked to a reusable application framework.     

Hochgenaue Abstandsmessung mit Mikrowellen

Using microwave technology for industrial sensing applications has the advantage of being insensitive to environmental influences. The presented near range radar has an accuracy of 0.1 mm. This high precision was achieved by using dynamic frequency divider chips for direct frequency measurement and a six-port for phase measurement at 35 GHz. A digital signal processor calculates the distance.     

Vergleich, Dimensionierung und Realisierung einphasiger Power Factor Correctors minimalen Realisierungsaufwands

In the future laws and restrictions will limit the amplitudes of the low frequency harmonics of mains currents of rectifier systems. While diode bridges are very simple, compact and cheap, their input current shows high low-order harmonics. In the past various rectifier systems have been developed that avoid low-order input current harmonics by means of active current control. The significantly reduced input filter results in a small and compact total rectifier system. In this paper different rectifier systems are discussed and compared. Since industry is interested in simple and cheap solutions the rectifier systems are discussed under these considerations. Besides an introduction of different power circuits and control schemes, the systematic choice of the power semiconductors is presented.