MONOLITHIC POWER CONDITIONING : THE NEW POWER QUALITY PARADIGM FOR ITS

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) equipment is evolving rapidly. Transistor densities are growing exponentially, while the equipment is becoming increasingly more powerful, faster, and smaller. Systems and communications are becoming more and more complex as ambitious plans work towards the integration of a massive coast to coast network. To aid this objective, higher powered semiconductors will flow into ITS equipment. Given these technological changes, and the many variables associated with power quality, deploying electronic equipment in ITS projects will become increasingly challenging. As the Cellular and Wireless communication industry learned, ITS deployments that ignore power quality issues will be faced with reduced system performance, manifested by equipment failures and outages. By subjecting critical equipment to harmful power events, maintenance costs will also increase substantially. Consequently, the implementation of appropriate power protection technology will become an increasingly critical component to the success of installations that achieve lower total costs. This paper will address the power quality issues faced by ITS designers. It will identify power condition considerations, define power protection technologies identify power protection deployment considerations, and define a new power quality paradigm

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1998 Published By: ITS America, Washington DC
• Authors:
  • Thompson, George
  • ABERNETHY, BRUCE
  • Reed, Pat
• Conference:
  • ITS America 8th Annual Meeting and Exposition: Transportation technology for tomorrow : conference proceedings
  • Location: Detroit Michigan, United States
  • Date: 1998-0-0 to 1998-0-0
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 13 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electronic equipment; Reliability

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00776895
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM