Introduction to

Data Acquisition and Analysis

Electrical networks and grids worldwide operate on different frequencies and the electricity distributed throughout them contains natural variances and fluctuations that erode efficiency and result in losses. Researching and understanding these losses at a granular level is extraordinarily difficult because there is a variance in energy data quality across the different methods and technologies for collecting energy data.

Problems with Existing Data Acquisition & Analysis

Electricity is not precisely measured, rather it is semi-accurately calculated. The existing approach is a low instrumentation approach that relies mainly on data acquired at the kHz or millisecond level. Electrons move at the speed of light so calculating electrical energy parameters using millisecond level data means that there is a lot unknown about electrical energy flow. We simply lack the ability to acquire the data.

These are not small problems

We use different instruments of non-constant data quality to calculate electrical parameters in non-standard networks and grids across the world using a methodology that has not changed since Nikola Tesla’s time.

What Is Measured

What Is Actually There

Why this matters?

The inability to reliably and accurately acquire real time (subcycle) electrical energy data on consumption, production, or quality leaves us blind to the events that occur in the electrical environment at the micro and nano level.

This exposes our electrical networks to unknown threats because of unknown vulnerabilities and most importantly results in an unstable electrical environment.

3DFS Data Acquisition and Analysis

3DFS has taken an innovative approach to energy data acquisition and analysis. Instead of a low instrumentation approach, we leverage proprietary advancements in material science and computing to sense, acquire and analyze data at the GHz or nanosecond level in almost any electrical environment non-invasively.

Coordinated Innovation

One of the innovations behind the 3DFS methodology is in material science. We produce our own proprietary sensors that are able to reliably sense electricity with accuracy at ultra high frequencies, enabling accurate and reliable measurements every 6 nanoseconds.

Another innovation is the ability to acquire and analyze that much data at such fast speeds with efficiency. To achieve this, the engineers had to invent a new method for computing data.

How this changes the industry

Reliable, precise and consistent energy data is required for today’s interconnected electrical networks. 3DFS Technology opens up visibility into energy consumption, production and quality and will benefit everybody from research scientists seeking knowledge, to businesses looking to save energy expenses, to concerned citizens wanting to identify ways to reduce their carbon footprint.

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