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12 Citations
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15 September 2023

Despite abundant solar resources, Mali has remained one of the least electrified countries in the world. Besides daily life activities and the economy, the shortage of electricity has severely affected the quality of healthcare services in the countr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Electrification and Sustainable Energy Systems to Improve Agriculture and Rural Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,383 Views
19 Pages

18 March 2016

A standalone DC microgrid integrated with distributed renewable energy sources, energy storage devices and loads is analyzed. To mitigate the interaction among distributed power modules, this paper describes a modeling and control design procedure fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Renewable Generation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,199 Views
10 Pages

Thermopneumatic Soft Micro Bellows Actuator for Standalone Operation

  • Seongbeom Ahn,
  • Woojun Jung,
  • Kyungho Ko,
  • Yeongchan Lee and ,
  • Chanju Lee and
  • Yongha Hwang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 January 2021

Typical pneumatic soft micro actuators can be manufactured without using heavy driving components such as pumps and power supplies by adopting an independent battery-powered mechanism. In this study, a thermopneumatically operated soft micro bellows...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Printing of MEMS Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,446 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2021

Under-frequency load shedding (UFLS) prevents a power grid from a blackout when a severe contingency occurs. UFLS schemes can be classified into two categories—event-based and response-driven. A response-driven scheme utilizes 81L relays with pre-det...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Electric Power System 2022)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,383 Views
28 Pages

17 November 2022

The European Union’s energy and climate policies are geared on reducing carbon dioxide emissions and advancing sustainable energy, focusing on a faster propagation of renewable energy sources to decarbonize the energy sector. The management of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy and Environmental Management of Buildings and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,132 Views
19 Pages

A Blended SPS-ESPS Control DAB-IBDC Converter for a Standalone Solar Power System

  • P. Sathishkumar,
  • Himanshu,
  • Shengxu Piao,
  • Muhammad Adil Khan and ,
  • Do-Hyun Kim,
  • Min-Soo Kim,
  • Dong-Keun Jeong,
  • Cheewoo Lee and
  • Hee-Je Kim
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 September 2017

In sustainable energy applications, standalone solar power systems are mostly preferred for self-powered energy zones. In all standalone renewable power systems, batteries are still preferred as the common energy storage device. On the other hand, ba...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,824 Views
15 Pages

Discrete Fundamental AC Voltage Controller for Three-Phase Standalone Converters

  • Alejandro García-Fernández,
  • Jesús Doval-Gandoy and
  • Diego Pérez-Estévez

27 January 2021

Voltage control of standalone converters with LC filter is usually based on proportional-resonant or proportional-integral controllers, which often require further active damping methods to achieve stability. These solutions place design constraints...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control of Power Electronics Converters and Electric Motor Drives)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,051 Views
27 Pages

Comparison of Economic Performance of Lead-Acid and Li-Ion Batteries in Standalone Photovoltaic Energy Systems

  • Javier Carroquino,
  • Cristina Escriche-Martínez,
  • Luis Valiño and
  • Rodolfo Dufo-López

16 April 2021

Standalone renewable energy systems usually incorporate batteries to get a steady energy supply. Currently, Li-ion batteries are gradually displacing lead-acid ones. In practice, the choice is made without previous comparison of its profitability in...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,476 Views
25 Pages

A New Method for Gaining the Control of Standalone Underwater Sensor Nodes Based on Power Supply Sensing

  • Daniel Rodríguez García,
  • Juan A. Montiel-Nelson,
  • Tomás Bautista and
  • Javier Sosa

7 July 2021

In this paper, a new method for gaining the control of standalone underwater sensor nodes based on sensing the power supply evolution is presented. Underwater sensor networks are designed to support multiple extreme scenarios such as network disconne...

(This article belongs to the Collection Underwater Sensor Networks and Internet of Underwater Things)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,268 Views
4 Pages

Techno-Economic Investigation of Standalone Photovoltaic Energy Systems for Rural Areas of Quetta

  • Riaz Ahmed,
  • Abdul Basit,
  • Qamar ud Din Abid,
  • Muhammad Haroon and ,
  • Fasihullah Kakar,
  • Najeeb Ullah and
  • Danish Ahmed Khan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 September 2023

The purpose of this techno-economic study is to investigate the potential of the implementation of standalone photovoltaic (PV) energy systems in rural areas of Quetta, Pakistan. This study focuses on alleviating the region’s energy crisis and...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME-2023))
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,706 Views
18 Pages

13 March 2020

A standalone photovoltaic system mainly consists of photovoltaic panels and battery bank. The use of such systems is restricted mainly due to their high initial costs. This problem is alleviated by optimal sizing as it results in reliable and cost-ef...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,396 Views
17 Pages

Fault Diagnosis Strategy for a Standalone Photovoltaic System: A Residual Formation Approach

  • Zaheer Alam,
  • Malak Adnan Khan,
  • Zain Ahmad Khan,
  • Waleed Ahmad and ,
  • Imran Khan,
  • Qudrat Khan,
  • Muhammad Irfan and
  • Grzegorz Nowakowski
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The search for sustainability and green energy, in electricity production, has lead many researchers to study and improve photovoltaic (PV) systems. The PV systems, being a combination of power electronic modules and PV array, have high tendency of f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Prognosis in a Context of Renewable Power Generation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,228 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Power Dispatch of Small-Scale Standalone Microgrid Located in Colombian Territory

  • Andrés Henao-Muñoz,
  • Andrés Saavedra-Montes and
  • Carlos Ramos-Paja

19 July 2018

An optimal power dispatch of a small-scale standalone microgrid for remote area power supply in Colombian territory is proposed in this paper. The power dispatch is generated by an energy management system based on a mixed-integer linear programming,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Development Strategies: Energy Efficiency and Renewables)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,279 Views
26 Pages

This paper presents an experimental comparison of the EMBA firmware security analysis framework deployed in cloud-based and standalone environments. Unlike prior studies that primarily focus on EMBA’s analytical capabilities, this work examines how d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intrusion/Malware Detection and Prevention in Networks—2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,548 Views
22 Pages

21 July 2024

Microhydraulic turbines offer a promising solution for decentralized energy production, suitable for both grid-connected and standalone applications, due to their compactness and high efficiency. This paper introduces a control approach for such syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Strategies for Multiphase Induction Generators: Design, Optimization, and Application 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
540 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2026

Background/Objectives: Evaluation of real-world outcomes of standalone implantation of the third-generation trabecular micro-bypass device (iStent infinite) in eyes with mild to severe primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). Materials: This retrospective...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Glaucoma)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,885 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Energy Management Control Scheme for a Standalone PV System in a DC Nanogrid

  • Armel Asongu Nkembi,
  • Danilo Santoro,
  • Paolo Cova and
  • Nicola Delmonte

21 November 2023

Distributed energy resources (DERs), such as photovoltaic (PV) sources, together with storage systems, such as battery energy storage systems (BESS), are increasingly present and necessary in our electricity distribution networks. Furthermore, the ne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Harvesting and Storage Technologies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,393 Views
27 Pages

A Rigorous Standalone Literature Review of Residential Electricity Load Profiles

  • Angreine Kewo,
  • Pinrolinvic D. K. Manembu and
  • Per Sieverts Nielsen

13 May 2023

The introduction of smart meters and time-use survey data is helping decision makers to understand the residential electricity consumption behaviour behind load profiles. However, it can be difficult to obtain the actual detailed consumption data due...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Energy Management and Sustainable Urban Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,075 Views
18 Pages

Combined Cooling and Power Management Strategy for a Standalone House Using Hydrogen and Solar Energy

  • Hugo Lambert,
  • Robin Roche,
  • Samir Jemeï,
  • Pascal Ortega and
  • Daniel Hissel

8 May 2021

Tropical climate is characterized by hot temperatures throughout the year. In areas subject to this climate, air conditioning represents an important share of total energy consumption. In some tropical islands, there is no electric grid; in these cas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,960 Views
17 Pages

29 January 2022

Many countries have larger land areas and scattered communities. Therefore, to electrify them, small standalone power systems are the more preferred and cost-efficient solution as compared to utility grid extensions. The main objective of a standalon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Energy Systems: Control and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
935 Views
24 Pages

11 February 2026

The decarbonization of electricity supply has intensified interest in standalone microgrids capable of achieving high renewable penetration while maintaining strict reliability. This study addresses the research questions of how cost-optimal standalo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Opportunities of Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
304 Views
21 Pages

Optimal Sizing of a Renewable Hybrid Power System in a Standalone House Considering Vehicle-to-Home Integration

  • Golsa Azarbakhsh,
  • Amin Mahmoudi,
  • Solmaz Kahourzade,
  • Amirmehdi Yazdani and
  • Md Apel Mahmud

8 October 2026

This paper presents the optimal sizing of wind turbine (WT), photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage system (BES) for standalone houses with electric vehicles (EVs) by considering vehicle-to-home (V2H) operation. To minimise the net present cost...

(This article belongs to the Section Electric Vehicles and Mobile Energy Storage Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,644 Views
45 Pages

17 November 2024

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is an innovative spectroscopic technique that amplifies the Raman signals of molecules adsorbed on rough metal surfaces, making it pivotal for single-molecule detection in complex biological and environmental...

(This article belongs to the Section Biology and Medicines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,780 Views
11 Pages

22 December 2021

This paper proposes a step-up DC–DC converter for a power electronic circuit for standalone photovoltaic systems with battery energy storages. The proposed DC–DC converter effectively converts low DC battery voltage into high DC-link volt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronic Circuits for Electric Drives and Renewable Energy Sources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,224 Views
25 Pages

An Energy Management System for PV Sources in Standalone and Connected DC Networks Considering Economic, Technical, and Environmental Indices

  • Luis Fernando Grisales-Noreña,
  • Jauder Alexander Ocampo-Toro,
  • Andrés Alfonso Rosales-Muñoz,
  • Brandon Cortes-Caicedo and
  • Oscar Danilo Montoya

8 December 2022

This research proposes an efficient energy management system for standalone and grid-connected direct current (DC) distribution networks that consider photovoltaic (PV) generation sources. A complete nonlinear programming model is formulated to repre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Grid Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
534 Views
32 Pages

Measurement-Driven Modeling of End-to-End Latency in an Indoor Private Standalone 5G Network

  • Osman Bodur,
  • Sami Çağlayan,
  • Neslihan Demir,
  • Günther Poszvek and
  • Friedrich Bleicher

15 September 2026

This paper presents a measurement-driven study of end-to-end latency in an indoor private standalone 5G network deployed at TU Wien IFT TEC-Lab. The testbed combines pico radio units, edge computing resources, and a local 5G core to form a campus-sca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
6,359 Views
19 Pages

Latest Energy Storage Trends in Multi-Energy Standalone Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: A Comprehensive Study

  • Amad Ali,
  • Rabia Shakoor,
  • Abdur Raheem,
  • Hafiz Abd ul Muqeet and ,
  • Qasim Awais,
  • Ashraf Ali Khan and
  • Mohsin Jamil
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 June 2022

The popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing day by day due to their environmentally friendly operation and high milage as compared to conventional fossil fuel vehicles. Almost all leading manufacturers are working on the development of EV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
479 Views
15 Pages

17 January 2026

The anti-load-disturbance capability is one of the most important capabilities in a microgrid. In comparison with the grid-connected brushless doubly-fed induction generator (BDFIG), the output voltage of the standalone BDFIG in a microgrid is more s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetic Field Computations and Energy Efficiency Studies in Electrical Machines, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,073 Views
25 Pages

26 May 2015

The analysis and application of hybrid energy storage systems (HESSs) in small-scale standalone microgrids for remote area power supply (RAPS) has received extensive attention. This application mode has its own characteristics which must be consider...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
803 Views
35 Pages

3 September 2026

The deployment of 5G standalone (SA) networks introduces cloud-native core architectures, service-based interfaces, and programmable radio access networks that substantially expand the mobile attack surface. Existing work has focused mainly on protoc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anomaly and Intrusion Detection in Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,596 Views
19 Pages

Integrated Zeta–Ćuk-Based Single-Phase DC/AC Inverter for Standalone Applications

  • Aylla R. M. Guedes,
  • Anderson A. Dionizio,
  • Óliver P. Westin,
  • Leonardo P. Sampaio and
  • Sérgio A. O. da Silva

17 August 2025

Power electronics has significantly contributed to advances in developing single-stage integrated converter topologies, enabling DC/AC conversion with voltage step-up capability in a compact and efficient structure. This work proposes a novel Integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Power Converters in Energy and Microgrid Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,201 Views
13 Pages

23 June 2016

Standalone microgrids, which are mainly constructed on island areas have low system inertia, may result large frequency deviations even for small load change. Moreover, increasing penetration level of renewable energy sources (RESs) into standalone m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microgrids 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
318 Views
24 Pages

Application-Layer Intrusion Detection for VoIP over Open-Source 5G Standalone Networks

  • Cosmin-Sebastian Badea,
  • Marian Alexandru and
  • Andreea-Mihaela Comșiț

20 September 2026

Many open-source 5G standalone testbeds emphasise deployment rather than continuous detection of application-layer abuse. This work presents a reproducible, RF-free, three-node testbed in which SIP signalling traverses a PDU session while a sensor co...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,471 Views
17 Pages

7 May 2021

High renewable energy integrated standalone microgrid requires greater ramping capabilities from other dispatchable resources to compensate for effects of the intermittent and variability of the renewable energy available in the system. To address th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
684 Views
16 Pages

27 July 2026

Tactile sensing can enhance robotic grasping by providing contact information unavailable from vision or control signals alone. However, implementing tactile sensing in robotic hands is often constrained by external wiring, data-acquisition hardware,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flexible Pressure/Force Sensors and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,213 Views
24 Pages

Optimal Energy Management in a Standalone Microgrid, with Photovoltaic Generation, Short-Term Storage, and Hydrogen Production

  • Andreu Cecilia,
  • Javier Carroquino,
  • Vicente Roda,
  • Ramon Costa-Castelló and
  • Félix Barreras

20 March 2020

This paper addresses the energy management of a standalone renewable energy system. The system is configured as a microgrid, including photovoltaic generation, a lead-acid battery as a short term energy storage system, hydrogen production, and severa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Development of Energy Management: Automotive and Stationary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,461 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2025

Standalone wind–solar–diesel–storage microgrids serve as a crucial solution for achieving energy self-sufficiency in remote and off-grid areas, such as rural regions and islands, where conventional power grids are unavailable. Addre...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,597 Views
19 Pages

19 October 2023

A single-phase bidirectional DC/DC battery charger with a P&O MPPT current control strategy for a standalone energy management system has been integrated with an interleaved switched capacitor DC/AC inverter with an RMS feedback phase-shifted uni...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
2,973 Views
30 Pages

22 July 2025

Standalone photovoltaic (PV) systems offer a viable path to decentralized energy access but face limitations during periods of low solar irradiance. While batteries provide short-term storage, their capacity constraints often restrict the use of surp...

(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,802 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2019

This paper proposes a harmonic compensation control with disturbance rejection function for a standalone inverter. Due to the LC type three-phase three-leg inverter is connected to nonlinear loads, low-order harmonic components appears in the inverte...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,197 Views
23 Pages

Allocation of Cost of Reliability to Various Customer Sectors in a Standalone Microgrid System

  • Sakthivelnathan Nallainathan,
  • Ali Arefi,
  • Christopher Lund and
  • Ali Mehrizi-Sani

20 June 2025

Due to the intermittent and uncertain nature of emerging renewable energy sources in the modern power grid, the level of dispatchable power sources has been reduced. The contemporary power system is attempting to address this by investing in energy s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques for Optimization and Energy Management in Smart Grids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
622 Views
13 Pages

Design and Implementation of an OCaml-Based Standalone SystemVerilog Preprocessor Compliant with IEEE 1800-2023

  • Hao Deng,
  • Zhiqiang He,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Jiaojiao Xu and ,
  • Mingxu Song and
  • Gang Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

SystemVerilog preprocessing determines the effective source code consumed by subsequent front-end compilation stages, yet in many toolchains it is implemented as an internal component tightly coupled with lexical, syntactic, or downstream analysis. S...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,934 Views
17 Pages

Novel Control Technology for Reducing Output Power Harmonics of Standalone Solar Power Generation Systems

  • Hwa-Dong Liu,
  • Jhen-Ting Lin,
  • Xin-Wen Lin,
  • Chang-Hua Lin and
  • Shoeb-Azam Farooqui

16 September 2023

This study presents a standalone solar power system that incorporates a photovoltaic (PV) module, a boost converter, an H-bridge inverter, a low-pass filter (LPF), and a microcontroller unit (MCU). A novel cake sweetness maximum power point tracking...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,949 Views
16 Pages

Optimal Capacity and Cost Analysis of Battery Energy Storage System in Standalone Microgrid Considering Battery Lifetime

  • Pinit Wongdet,
  • Terapong Boonraksa,
  • Promphak Boonraksa,
  • Watcharakorn Pinthurat and ,
  • Boonruang Marungsri and
  • Branislav Hredzak
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 January 2023

In standalone microgrids, the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is a popular energy storage technology. Because of renewable energy generation sources such as PV and Wind Turbine (WT), the output power of a microgrid varies greatly, which can redu...

(This article belongs to the Collection Recent Advances in Battery Management Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,021 Views
27 Pages

Hydrogen energy generation plays a crucial role in enhancing the utilization of clean energy at coastal stations with abundant wind and solar resources in Antarctica. In response to the reliable demand for the application of hydrogen fuel cells in st...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Energy Technology, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,140 Views
18 Pages

5G Standalone and 4G Multi-Carrier Network-in-a-Box Using a Software Defined Radio Framework

  • Karolis Kiela,
  • Marijan Jurgo,
  • Vytautas Macaitis and
  • Romualdas Navickas

22 August 2021

In this work, an open Radio Access Network (RAN), compatible, scalable and highly flexible Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based Remote Radio Head (RRH) framework is proposed and designed. Such framework can be used to implement flexible wideband radio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experimentation in 5G and beyond Networks: State of the Art and the Way Forward)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
55 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2026

This paper presents a single-phase inverter for a standalone photovoltaic module developed in 2025 and proposes an innovative combination of adaptive MPPT based on variable-step P&O, high-frequency SPWM modulation, and optimized filtering and pro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,215 Views
41 Pages

A Review on Mode Transition Strategies between Grid-Connected and Standalone Operation of Voltage Source Inverters-Based Microgrids

  • Jihed Hmad,
  • Azeddine Houari,
  • Allal El Moubarek Bouzid,
  • Abdelhakim Saim and
  • Hafedh Trabelsi

29 June 2023

Microgrids technologies are seen as a cost effective and reliable solution to handle numerous challenges, mainly related to climate change and power demand increase. This is mainly due to their potential for integrating available on-site renewable en...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,429 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2021

In this study, we deal with a dual active bridge (DAB) converter-based battery charger in a standalone wind power generation system (WPGS) with a small-scale wind turbine. However, the power conversion efficiency under the low power output in the dis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development of Voltage and Current Transformers in Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,952 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2023

In this paper, a hybrid PV–wind-source- based multi-port converter focused on a standalone DC system is proposed. The proposed configuration is able to perform simultaneous three-phase AC–DC conversion and DC–DC conversion, ensuring...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Topologies, and Modulation Techniques of Power Converters (DC/DC and DC/AC) for the Grid-Integration with Renewable Energy Sources)

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