Rapid and accurate fault diagnosis of smart meters can greatly improve the operational and maintenance ability of power systems. Focusing on the historical fault data information of smart meters, a fault diagnosis model of smart meters based on an improved capsule network (CapsNet) is proposed. First, we count the sample size of each fault type, and a mixed sampling method combining undersampling and oversampling is used to solve the problem of distribution imbalance of sample size. The one-hot encoding method is adopted to solve the problem of the fault samples containing more discrete and disordered data. Then, the strong adaptive feature extraction capability and nonlinear mapping capability of the deep belief network (DBN) are utilized to improve the single convolution layer feature extraction part of a traditional capsule network; DBN can also address the problem of high data dimensions and sparse data due to one-hot encoding. The important features and key information of the input sample are extracted and used as the input of the primary capsule layer, and the dynamic routing algorithm is used to construct the digital capsule. Finally, the results of experiments show that the improved capsule network model can effectively improve the accuracy of diagnosis and shorten the training time.

The widespread adoption and utilization of electric vehicles has been constrained by power battery performance. We proposed a fault diagnosis method for power batteries based on multiple-model fusion. The method effectively fused the advantages of various classification models and avoided the bias of a single model towards certain fault types. Firstly, we collected and sorted parameter information of the power battery during operation. Three common neural networks: back propagation (BP) neural network, convolution neural network (CNN), and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network, were applied to battery fault diagnosis to output the fault types. Secondly, the fusion algorithm proposed in this paper determined the accurate fault type. Based on the improved voting method, the proposed fusion algorithm, named the multi-level decision algorithm, calculated the voting factors of the diagnostic results of each classification model. According to the set decision thresholds, multi-level decision voting was conducted to avoid neglecting effective classification information from minority models, which can occur with traditional voting methods. Finally, the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed method were verified by comparing the accuracy of each classification model with the multiple model fusion algorithm.

Reliability allocation can reasonably determine the reliability index of each unit in the system to ensure product quality in design, manufacturing, testing and acceptance. In the design process of the smart meter, the preliminary reliability allocation results may be unreasonable, so in the middle and later stages of the design stage, the reliability needs to be reallocated. The traditional allocation method has some limitations, such as strong subjectivity, large amount of calculation and too much reliance on expert judgment. In order to solve these problems, this paper presents a multi-method fusion method of reliability allocation. First, this paper uses the goal-oriented methodology (GO methodology) to integrate dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) to predict the reliability of smart meters. Second, a data envelopment analysis (DEA) reliability allocation model is established, the posterior probability obtained by DBN reasoning together with the failure rate and structural complexity of each unit are used as the output indicators of this model. Finally, the reliability allocation weight is calculated by using the efficiency value obtained from the DEA reliability allocation model. The validity and accuracy of this method is verified by an accelerated life test. This provides a new idea for reliability reallocation of smart meters.