Smart Grid Technologies Expert Profile
Computer engineering professor and expert in renewable energy and smart grid technologies with twenty-five years of experience in industry and academia.
Renewable Energy
Barr Group's experienced electronics and software experts consult with attorneys in product liability and patent and trade secret litigations. Our experts in battery charging and energy technologies have hands-on experience designing such systems and the credentials and integrity to testify successfully before judges and juries.
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Renewable Energy Technologies
Renewable energy technologies include solar-, wind-, and rechargeable battery-powered systems and contain electronics and software. When an energy generation, storage, or transfer system malfunctions the results can be deadly, especially in a high-voltage situation, as well as lead to blackouts and other adverse effects. Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure embedded systems and our expert software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers are well acquainted with the design of energy-related systems and products such as:
- Hybrid and electric vehicles (EV) and their traction battery packs
- Laptop, cell phone, implantable medical, and e-cigarette batteries
- Battery recharging algorithms and charge-sensing electronics
- Inductive charging, a.k.a. wireless charging, including Qi and PMA
- Lithium and Li-ion batteries, charging and storage safety
- Supercapacitors and ultracapacitors
- Fuel cells, including hydrogen
- Battery chemistry and electrochemical energy storage
- Electrochemistries from alkaline to NiMH, NiCd, NiZn, and ZnBr
- Battery mass production and quality control, including factory setup
- Battery failure analysis and fire safety considerations
- Biomass thermophysical conversion technologies
- Energy generation, storage, and transfer, in general
- Wind and oceanic wave energy capture such as wind farms and turbines
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, panels and systems (including in orbit/space)
- Space propulsion systems, including lunar dust extraction and utilization
- Smart grid technologies for high-voltage energy distribution networks
- Voltage Stability Monitoring & Control (VSMC) software
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), a.k.a. "smart meters"
Barr Group's electronics and software experts are familiar with all of the technologies used in battery recharging and renewable energy systems. This includes FPGAs and ASICs programmed in Verilog and VHDL, processors such as ARM cores programmed in assembly, C/C++, and other languages, as well as Linux and real-time operating systems like VxWorks. And we are just as comfortable with other tools such as MATLAB and LabVIEW.
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Renewable Energy Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's renewable energy technology experts support plaintiffs and defendants in litigation, including in U.S. District Courts and state courts, at the International Trade Commission (ITC), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Our services include:
- Technical assistance with drafting of discovery requests
- Analysis of electronics and related design documents
- Software source code review and analysis
- Tear-downs and comparisons for copyright and trade secret theft
- Prior art review for patent invalidity
- Reverse engineering, including disassembly of binary code
- Battery testing and characterization
- Battery failure and degradation analysis
- CFEI fire, explosion, and malfunction investigations
- Expert reports, declarations, and witness statements
- Testimony at deposition, oral hearings, and trials
Barr Group has a demonstrated ability to quickly activate one or more electronics and software reviewers to match the size, scope, and complexity of any project.
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Wireless Power Transfer Expert Profile
Professor of electrical engineering with experience in power electronics, including low power circuits, solar cells, wireless power transfer, and high voltage systems.
Electric Power Conditioning Expert Profile
Professor and expert with twenty five years of experience in power electronics, including power quality and conditioning as well as renewable energy generation.
Battery Design and Testing Expert Profile
Electrochemist, consultant, and materials science professor with extensive experience in research and industry for battery electronics, including manufacturing.
Battery Failure Electrochemistry Expert Profile
Chemist and consultant with four decades of experience in the area of electrochemical energy devices, including batteries, capacitors, fuel cells, electrolysis and corrosion.
Manufacturing Automated Test Expert Profile
Professional Engineer (PE) with several of hands-on experience developing products and software for industrial, consumer, enterprise, military, and medical applications.
Energy Storage and Transfer Expert Profile
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with over twenty-five years of experience in materials science, systems engineering and design of microelectronics.
Optical Systems and Interfaces Expert Profile
Innovative physicist with decades of experience in electro-optical systems design and significant expertise in low noise circuits and optical instruments and measurements.
Lithium Battery Ultracapacitor Expert Profile
Chemist and portable power expert with thirty years of industry experience at the leading edge of lithium battery and ultracapacitor technology development.
Battery Chemistry Expert Profile
Electrochemist and materials engineering consultant with thirty years of experience and expertise in all aspects of battery systems and energy storage.
Professional Engineer (PE) with several of hands-on experience developing products and software for industrial, consumer, enterprise, military, and medical applications.
Chemist and consultant with four decades of experience in the area of electrochemical energy devices, including batteries, capacitors, fuel cells, electrolysis and corrosion.
Electrochemist, consultant, and materials science professor with extensive experience in research and industry for battery electronics, including manufacturing.
Electrochemist and materials engineering consultant with thirty years of experience and expertise in all aspects of battery systems and energy storage.
Innovative physicist with decades of experience in electro-optical systems design and significant expertise in low noise circuits and optical instruments and measurements.
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with over twenty-five years of experience in materials science, systems engineering and design of microelectronics.
Professor of electrical engineering with experience in power electronics, including low power circuits, solar cells, wireless power transfer, and high voltage systems.
Chemist and portable power expert with thirty years of industry experience at the leading edge of lithium battery and ultracapacitor technology development.
Professor and expert with twenty five years of experience in power electronics, including power quality and conditioning as well as renewable energy generation.
Computer engineering professor and expert in renewable energy and smart grid technologies with twenty-five years of experience in industry and academia.