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Prof. Dr. Gerd Bumiller

Institut Informatik

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Email:
gerd.bumiller@hs-ruhrwest.de

Telephone:
+49 208 88254-808

Occupation:
Professor of Energy and Information Engineering

“Expert in Digital Signal Processing, Measurement Technology, Powerline and Smart Grid Communication”

 

After completing his training as a communications electronics technician at Grundig AG, Gerd Bumiller studied Communications Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg. He was awarded his doctorate at FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg in 2009 with a dissertation entitled “Single-Frequency Network Techniques for Rapidly Adaptive Ad Hoc Communication Networks over Power Supply Lines”.

In 1997, he joined a medium-sized company where he worked in development, project and research management and assumed technological responsibility for all powerline communication products. In close collaboration with several national and international universities, numerous R&D projects were carried out in the fields of wired and wireless communication, measurement technology and metering. In this capacity, Gerd Bumiller participated in the Open Metering Initiative of ZVEI and figawa and is a member of the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (DKE), the national standardisation organisation.

From 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, he served as Secretary of the IEEE Technical Committee for Power Line Communication (TC-PLC) of the IEEE Communications Society. From 2018 to 2022, he was Chair of the TC-PLC.

In 2011, Gerd Bumiller was appointed Professor at Hochschule Ruhr West in the Institute of Computer Science. From 2012 to 2015, he held the endowed professorship funded by Sparkasse Bottrop and served as Coordinator of the Departmental Advisory Board. Between 2018 and 2022, he was Programme Director of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Energy Informatics.

At Hochschule Ruhr West, he leads a research group from which three cooperative doctoral projects have already emerged. Two Research Associates are currently pursuing their doctorates, and further candidates are preparing to do so. To date, 40 conference publications in IEEE Xplore (Communication, Instrumentation & Measurement, and Power & Energy Society conferences) and three journal articles in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement have resulted from this work.

Research and Cooperation

  • Signal Processing and Smart Grids
  • Power Line Communication (PLC)
  • Smart Metering,
  • Measurement technology for grid impedance: analysis of interactions between grid-connected devices and the grid itself in the frequency range up to 500 kHz
  • Measurement technology for power quality: rapid measurement of grid frequency and Rate of Change of Frequency (RoCoF), as well as harmonic power flows

  • GridForm – Metrology for Efficient Grid-Forming Converters to Stabilise Future Power Grids (EURAMET), 2025–2028
  • ZIM Cooperative Project “EASIDE” in the field of impedance measurement technology, 2020–2023
  • EFRE.NRW Transfer Project “Powerline Communication Measurement Center (PLCMC)”, 2020–2021
  • Research Tandem, NERD-NRW Graduate School, in the field of IT security for smart metering and smart home applications, 2017–2021
  • Contract research in the field of automation, 2017–2020
  • EFRE.NRW Patent Validation Project “OPoLiCom”, 2016–2017
  • BMBF Project “AHA”, 2014–2017
  • Industry projects in the field of offshore energy and automation, 2015–2017
  • China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI), 2012–2014

Selected Publications

Power Quality Measurement:

  • J. -P. Kitzig, C. Szymczyk and G. Bumiller, "Quality Index for the Phase Information in Spectral Power Quality Analysis", 2022 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2MTC48687.2022.9806598.
  • C. Szymczyk and G. Bumiller, "A Quasi-Analytic Solution for Harmonic Power Flow Analysis of a Full Bridge Rectifier", 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe), Novi Sad, Serbia, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Europe54678.2022.9960448.
  • J. -P. Kitzig and G. Bumiller, "Fast-Decaying Sine Ramp Windows for Signals With Limited Frequency Resolution", in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, pp. 1-13, 2021, Art no. 6504813, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2021.3111077.
  • J. -P. Kitzig and G. Bumiller, "Using Mains Frequency Synchronously Sampled Data for Frequency and RoCoF Event Detection", 2021 IEEE 11th International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS), Cagliari, Italy, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AMPS50177.2021.9586041.
  • J.-P. Kitzig, S. Schlaghecke, and G. Bumiller, “Power Quality Measurement System With PMU Functionality Based on Interpolated Sampling”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1014–1025, 2019.
  • J.-P. Kitzig and G. Bumiller, “Evaluation of Power Quality Measurement System Concept using an experimental setup”, in 2019 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Auckland, New Zealand, May. 2019 - May. 2019, pp. 1–6.
  • J.-P. Kitzig and G. Bumiller, “Proof of Concept for Three-Phase Extension of a Mains Frequency Estimation Algorithm”, in IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems: 2019 Workshop proceedings, Aachen, Germany, 2019, pp. 1–6.
  • J.-P. Kitzig, J. Paetzold, and G. Bumiller, “Power Quality Analysis in non-stationary mains frequency conditions”, in ETG-Fachbericht, vol. 158, Internationaler ETG-Kongress 2019: Das Gesamtsystem im Fokus der Energiewende : 8.-9. Mai 2019, Neckar-Forum, Esslingen am Neckar, C. Rehtanz, Ed., Berlin: VDE Verlag GmbH, 2019.
  • L. Cai, G. Bumiller and J.-P. Kitzig, „Power Quality Analysis in Power Grids with a high share of Power Electronics based Generation and Load“, Tutorial at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm 2019), October 21-23, 2019, Beijing, China.

Impedance Measurement

  • C. Nieß and G. Bumiller, "Impedance Measurement System for Actively Transmitting Loads on Power Line", 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC), Malaga, Spain, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISPLC48789.2020.9115389.
  • G. Hallak, C. Nieß, and G. Bumiller, “Accurate Low Access Impedance Measurements With Separated Load Impedance Measurements on the Power-Line Network”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 2282–2293, 2018.
  • C. Niess and G. Bumiller, “Impedance Measurement System for Actively Transmitting Loads on Power Line”, in 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC), Málaga, Spain, May. 2020 - May. 2020, pp. 1–5.
  • G. Hallak and G. Bumiller, “Impedance measurement of electrical equipment loads on the power line network”, in 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC): 3-5 April 2017, Madrid, Spain, 2017, pp. 1–6.
  • G. Hallak and G. Bumiller, “Time variant voltage and current modeling corresponding to access impedance measurements”, in 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC): 8-11 April 2018, Manchester, 2018, pp. 1–6.
  • G. Hallak, G. Bumiller, and C. Nieß, “Accurate access impedance measurements on the power line with optimized calibration procedures”, in I2MTC - 2017 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: May 22-25, 2017, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy : 2017 proceedings papers, Torino, Italy, 2017, pp. 1–6.

Powerline Communication:

  • P. Horwat and G. Bumiller, "Measurement of Notch Depths for G3-PLC," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC), Aachen, Germany, 2021, pp. 84-89, doi: 10.1109/ISPLC52837.2021.9628520.
  • D. Szameitat, S. Hoffmann and G. Bumiller, "Security of ITU-T G.9903 and G.9904 – a New Approach for a Systematic Analysis," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC), Prague, Czech Republic, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISPLC.2019.8693260.
  • N. Nieß, J. N. Breitenbach, C. Szymczyk and G. Bumiller, "Comprehensive Approach to on Line EMI Filter Characterization at Full Load Current," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 31-36, doi: 10.1109/ISPLC57122.2023.10104179.
  • Power line communication networks for large-scale control and automation systems;  G. Bumiller, L. Lampe, H. Hrasnica; Communications Magazine, IEEE, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 106-113, April 2010, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.2010.5439083
  • Fast Burst Synchronization for Power Line Communication Systems; G. Bumiller & L. Lampe; Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Computational Intelligence Techniques for Power Line Communications, vol. 2007
  • Single Frequency Network Technology for Medium Access and Network Management;  G. Bumiller; 2002 International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), Athens 27-29 March 2002
  • System architecture for power-line communication and consequences for modulation and multiple access; G. Bumiller (iAd GmbH, Germany) 2003 International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), Kyoto, Japan 28-28 March 2003
  • Secure and reliable wide-area power-line communication for soft-real-time applications within REMPLI; G. Bumiller, T. Sauter, G. Pratl, A. Treytl, 2005 International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC) , vol., no., pp. 57-60, 6-8 April 2005