A standard power meter reports RMS averages every second or three. A voltage sag lasts a few cycles. A switching transient lasts microseconds. The meter reports that nothing happened, and the breaker on the floor disagrees. This is why so many electrical problems present as mysteries: the instrument that should explain the trip cannot see…
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Read time: 2 minutes We Asked AI to Solve Its Own Power Crisis. Here’s What Happened. We conducted an unusual experiment: we asked artificial intelligence to diagnose the very problem that could destroy it. We fed Google’s most advanced AI system over 10,000 pages of electrical engineering knowledge—everything from fundamental textbooks to cutting-edge energy research.…
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Electrical power has been around since the late 1800s and there are many experts both academic and industry who have spent their entire lives working with it. The one thing that is universal, globally, is the measurement methods. Since the entire world measures the same way, innovation and advancement are relegated to that constraint…
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3DFS was selected as one of 6 North Carolina startups leveraging elements of artificial intelligence to compete in the Startup Showcase for the State of Technology Conference and was fortunate enough to win. What Software-Defined Electricity does The About 3DFS page names the method Software-Defined Electricity. Software measures the current as it moves, not…
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3DFS was highlighted in the Raleigh News & Observer on Sunday, January 7, 2018 in an article entitled, “Pittsboro company’s technology could save energy costs as well as military lives.” The article highlights the staggering losses that are present in our grid from uncontrolled electricity, previous and future work done with the military, and…
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Data Center Instability Needs a Reliably Trackable Metric It is understood that uptime is mission critical for a data center. We design our data centers with multiple redundancies, secondary and tertiary backup power, high quality components and infrastructure, distributed UPS and PDUs, and the list goes on. A lot of thought is put into…
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We can adapt this technology to be put inside refrigerators and HVAC units and provide 3DFS Software-Defined Power (the technology is Software-Defined Electricity today) within them. The major benefit from this is smooth continuous undistorted power for the unit that will include complete surge protection. The unit will require less current to startup and…
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Grid Resiliency When dissecting the concept of grid resiliency, it is clear that the grid is an amassment of smaller independent electrical networks which are somewhat unstable, frequently demonstrating disruption of service which can be as simple as a flicker or as consequential as a loss of power. The interconnection of precarious electrical networks increases…
