Power Quality Assessment in LV networks using
new Smart Meters design
Mihai Sanduleac 1, Mihaela Albu 2, Joao Martins3, Mª Dolores Alacreu4, Carmen Stanescu 5
1
ECRO srl, Bucharest (Romania)
2
Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania)
3 UNINOVA and Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)
4
ETRA I+D, Valencia (Spain)
5
Transelectrica SA, Bucharest (Romania)
Abstract— This paper addresses the issue of power quality
management in smart grids. Present development of smart grid
technologies such as smart metering are continuously generating
novel opportunities and breakthroughs for improving the
distribution system performance. This paper proposes a novel
approach to be implemented in the new generation of smart
meters. This alternative method for harmonics and voltage level
analysis dramatically reduces the computational power, in order
to allow the inclusion of such functionalities in new Smart Meters
design. The developed algorithm is detailed and some results are
presented. This solution provides an easy access to the power
quality issues at customer level, being an important improvement
when prosumers are also considered. Unbundled Smart Meter
design is also analysed as an appropriate solution for
implementing complex PQ assessments.
Keywords— Smart grid; Smart meter; Power Quality; Voltage
level; Harmonics
I. INTRODUCTION
Smart meters (SM), as support for Smart Grids deployment,
including the flexible energy and energy services markets, are
becoming the most installed equipment nowadays in LV
distribution networks, in line with the aim of European Union
for 80% SM in 2020, as a politically endorsed target which
shows the society engagement towards higher efficiency and
sustainability of the energy sector.
Distribution networks and especially the LV networks are
also experiencing a dramatic change in the era of Smart Grids
deployment, through high penetration of distributed
generation, in an environment which asks for both high
network efficiency and flexible local markets, including
neighbourhoods markets of energy and energy services such
as demand response.
The new meter chips are more and more performant and the
most recent solutions are based on complex architectures such
as dual-core ARM Cortex processors with DSP functionalities,
allowing intensive digital computations for measuring the
energy but also for assessing additional quantities based on
voltage and current measurements, such as Power Quality
(PQ) indexes.
The main PQ areas of interest for DSOs as well as for the
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energy end-user are:
a) Voltage level, which is currently described by EN 50160
[1], giving legal limits in a statistical approach based on
P95% levels (EN 50160, IEC 61000-4-7);
b) Voltage harmonic level, through the synthetic THD and
through individual harmonics up to 50, with the same
statistical approach of P95% (IEC 61000-4-30, IEC
61000-4-7) and with specific normatives for the statistical
level
c) Current harmonic level, analysed with the same
algorithms (IEC 61000-4-30, IEC 61000-4-7), but without
a legally required limit [3,5]
d) Non-symmetries of voltage and current, calculated for the
fundamental component or for the rms value, within a
statistical approach [3];
e) Flicker effect, meaning low frequency deviations of
voltage rms values, with the same statistical method (IEC
61000-4-15) [2];
f) Voltage dips and swells, as short-time voltage
depreciations, to be classified e.g. according to Unipede
rules;
In addition, the quality of supply is quantified by number
and time-lengths of outages, to be used for calculating SAIDI
(System Average Interruption Duration Index) and SAIFI
(System Average Interruption Frequency Index).
Particularly, PQ issues a), b) and e) have standards with
severe requirements in terms of computation, which ask for
high cost specialized equipment.
In this context, this paper presents a novel and simplified
(light) solution for performing the PQ analysis, which is
tailored to be adapted for the latest Smart meters design, thus
allowing highly informative PQ monitoring in every Smart
Meter. This paper will consider and propose agile methods for
a) and b), with possible extensions also for d) issues.
II. EXISTING STANDARDS
Existing power quality (PQ) standards (IEC 61000-4-30, IEC
61000-4-7) use several aggregation algorithms in order to
retrieve statistical results P95% of different harmonics.
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According to current standards and PQ practice, statistics of
harmonics is based on a complex statistical methodology, with
the following steps:
• Harmonic level for each set of 10 periods is continuously
calculated through DFT computations and are mediated
each 3 seconds (15 sets considered for exact 50 Hz, but 14
up to 16 sets for frequency deviations under or over the
50 Hz system frequency) or each 10 minutes (15x600
sets); moreover, overlapping windows can bring the need
to make 2 different DFT/FFT analysis in the same time,
this to be covered by the computational power of the PQ
analyser; this may request, for class A, a double
computation power in some cases and requires
corresponding microprocessor based platform (usually
including a DSP part) in the measurement equipment;
• An additional 2 hours interval is also mentioned in the
standard, by aggregating 12 time intervals of 10 minutes;
• Finally, data for one week monitoring of such 10 minutes
results, meaning 1440 / 10 x 7 = 1008 values, is analysed
in terms of distribution of probability, in order to get a
95% level of probability, to be further used as informative
limits for the harmonic distortion level.
Even if this method looks to be precise and incorporates also
the stochastic behaviour of the non-sinusoidal regime, it has
several drawbacks that can be highlighted:
a. The method is applicable by considering that, during the
minimum time-window interval, i.e. 10 fundamental
periods, the analysed signals are periodic allowing DFT
use. This is only an approximation of the reality, so the
results should be carefully considered and some criteria
acting as “sentinel” of the quality of the “periodic”
presumption should be assessed on each such interval;
however, in 5.2.1 of [1], the Note 1 of Class A specifies
that the method is used for quasi-stationary signals, but
fails further to give any mechanism/method or “sentinel”
able to assess that during the measurement time, the
analysed system remains in the quasi-stationary situation.
The proposed methodology in this paper address this issue
and proposes (at point f) criteria using sub-harmonics
information for assessing that the presumption of “quasi-
stationary” signals is valid;
b. The method requires high computation power, with direct
consequence high price; this is requested by the condition
of analysing all frames of 10 periods which appear in a 3-
second or 10-minute interval, including overlapping
frames at the boundary between the intervals; the
proposed methodology in this paper will address in
chapter III this issue and will show that a different
approach gives acceptable results, as an alternative for
P95 calculation;
c. The method applies statistical analysis to get the 95%
level only on long period (one week). It is not possible to
obtain good results in lower timeframes, as it is needed to
process at least 1008 value range in order to achieve
acceptable statistics for a given minimum accuracy. Our
paper will address this issue and show in chapter III that a
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different approach gives acceptable results, as an
alternative for P95 calculation;
d. Existing meters, even the so called Smart Meters, cannot
include IEC61000-4-7 / 30 functionality, as one cannot
implement the algorithm in addition to existing functions,
without escalading the costs up to unbearable level.
However, PQ monitoring – at least the voltage level in the
connection point of the user is important, not only for
checking the quality of supply delivered by the utility but
also for improvement of the DSO operation especially
when the end-user has a prosumer typology. This means
that it makes sense to include PQ aspects in each Smart
Meter to be deployed.
e. One important requirement of [1] is to make
measurements based on intervals which are synchronized
every 10 minutes (“The 10/12-cycle measurement shall be
re-synchronized at every UTC 10-min tick”), where the
time deviation for the 10 minutes window shall be
resynchronized with a 10 ms accuracy, in order to secure
similar results obtained from different equipment
geographically distributed; this high synchronization
condition raises two problems:
1. The synchronization level may need an additional
GPS equipment, when comparative analysis is
needed over large area networks;
2. The idea of such synchronization level, when we
target a statistical result, may question the method
itself; for our understanding, a good statistical
method will give similar results even in case of using
an stochastic sampling of the 10 periods windows,
without considering all windows, but only one or two
in a second, which avoids also the situation of
overlapped windows; the proposed methodology in
this paper will address this issue in chapter III and
show that a different approach gives acceptable
results, as an alternative for P95 calculation;
f. The 2560 / 5120 samples give space for calculating also
the so-called sub-harmonics (10 sub-harmonics between
each two harmonics can be calculated, with a step of 5
Hz, if 10 periods of the main frequency are sampled); this
sub-harmonics aspect is in most cases questionable, as a
50 Hz network does not have usually sub-harmonics and
the non-zero values of the computed sub-harmonics show,
in most cases, transitory situations, which anyway affect
also the harmonics; so usually sub-harmonics do not show
real system behaviour (except un-synchronized choppers
of inverters, but these tend to go in high frequency
domain, beyond the current standard [1]) but mainly non-
periodic situations (flicker may be also part of it) which
consequently affects also the accuracy of real harmonics
computation. Two examples are given below:
1. A first small non-periodical perturbation which
affects the harmonics spectrum is applied as follows:
we will consider that during one or more of the 10
periods, the voltage signal includes variations called
“sags”; we will consider in figure 2 a sag of 10%
during the 4th period (inside the timeframe of 10
 periods) and in figure 3 an additional sag of 5%
during 5th period; this situation simulates in a
simplified manner the fact that a new load is
connected during the 4th period, which brings an in-
rush current to produce the first voltage sag; the
second situation simulates that the transitory status
continues for the next 20 ms, with a less deeper sag,
while in the next periods the voltage level is again
“normal”; visual analysis of these effects, through
simulation, are given below, by comparing with the
initial spectrum in figure 1, (without voltage
variation) with that in figures 2 and 3, (10 period
windows with voltage sags);
2. The second situation which introduces “artificial”
sub-harmonics and affects “real” harmonics is when
the sampling period is not well synchronized with the
main period of the power system; to prove this, we
simulated that the 10 periods are sampled with an
error of 0.25% comparing with the actual period of
the signal, which means for instance that we are
sampling 256 times per period considering a 50 Hz
signal, but the real voltage signal in the system is in
that moment 50 Hz x 1.0025 = 50.125 Hz, which
nowadays is proven to be a normal situation not only
in islanded grids but also in interconnected systems;
visual analysis of these effects, obtained through
numerical simulations, are also given below, with
figure 4 showing how artificial sub-harmonics and 2k
harmonics are appearing, simultaneously with
accuracy depreciation of actual harmonics.
Figure 1 – Spectrum resulting from a steady-state voltage situation during the 10 periods sampled 256 times per period
Figure 2 – Spectrum resulting from the steady-state voltage signal, annalyzed over a 10 periods window; the signal which is affected by a 10% voltage
sag in the 5th period
Figure 3 – Spectrum resulting from the steady-state voltage situation of 10 periods which is affected by a 10% voltage sag in the 5th period followed by
a 5% voltage sag in the next (6th) period
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In figure 1, the voltage signal has been simulated using the
equation (1) below, where N is the number of samples in the
main fundamental period (N=256 in a 20 ms period); k the kth
sample, k = [0 .. 2560) for covering 10 periods; Formula (1)
corresponds to the following expected harmonics (amplitudes;
rms values can be further calculated by dividing with √(2)):
U1=100; U3=7; U5=4; U7=5; U11=3; U17=4; U23=2; U27=3;
U31=1.
u[k] = 100*sin(2π/N*k) + 7*sin(3*2π/N*k) +
4*sin(5*2π/N*k) + 7*sin(7*2π/N*k) +
3*sin(11*2π/N*k) + 4*sin(17*2π/N*k) + (1)
2*sin(23*2π/N*k) + 3*sin(27*2π/N*k) +
1*sin(31*2π/N*k)
In [5], the issue of not-synchronized sampling (shown in figure
4) is addressed through the so called “grouping” of
interharmonics around a central harmonic, through quadratic
computations. Although this measure is theoretically
improving the harmonic calculation by adding the spread
nearby sub-spectrum, in fact it is applicable if only frequency
synchronization was the cause. But as figure 1 and 2, and also
other examples may show, different perturbations can bring
“fake” sub-harmonics nearby harmonics as well. For this
reason, we consider that the “grouping” method should be
avoided and that frequency synchronization is the best way to
get proper harmonics level. Specific interharmonics may be
used in these situations as criteria to detect non-“quasi-
stationary” situations, rather than to improve the accuracy of
harmonics calculation.
Figure 4 – Spectrum results after a 0.25% error in sampling frequency relative to the network frequency (50.125 Hz instead of 50 Hz)
With these assumptions, we will consider a method which will
monitor the energy transfer in LV networks by calculating
only the inter-harmonics of level (2k+1)*25 Hz (i.e. the values
for 25, 75, 125 etc. Hz), positioned at the middle between
main harmonics of the system frequency, or other selected
sub-harmonics (e.g. only the 50-5=45 and 50+5=55 Hz
interharmonic), as a “guard” for all main influences: bad
frequency synchronization, sags during the 10 period
windows, sub-harmonics due to un-synchronized choppers of
inverters etc. The proposed methodology in this paper will
address this issue and show that a “guard” of inter-harmonics,
obtained with the alternative P95 calculation is detecting well
transitory non-periodical influences.
g. the method uses quadratic mediation, (which actually is
weighting more the higher values contribution in the
statistics); in this respect, 15 values in 3 second time
periods or 15x600 windows in a 10 minute period; then,
in current standards, a statistical approach is made in a
linear way when calculating the P95 in a week, based on
1008 values; in [3] there is a non-linear mediation
(quadratic mediation) in the 3 seconds and 10 minutes
intervals, but the final algorithm, when the network
behaviour is again compressed by calculating the P95
level, is basically a linear method; the proposed
methodology in this paper will address this issue and will
show that a different approach, based only on linear
mediation, gives meaningful results of the P95
calculation;
This principle of full-chain linearization method is essential
for our proposed alternative approach and is considered a
better way of assessing the network non-sinusoidal
behaviour than hybrid analysis using both linear and non-
linear compression used in [1].
III. ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR THE PQ HARMONICS
ANALYSIS
The alternative method is a relaxed (simplified) method that
uses full-chain linearization method. The method uses
simplified rules for data acquisition and processing, chosen
such that the P95% level of harmonics can be still calculated
with a good approximation of the LV network phenomena.
This alternative method is a novel approach tailored with the
aim of capturing, in a straightforward way, the level of
harmonic behaviour in both existing and emerging power
networks.
The proposed methodology, as part of a light PQ analysis is
based on the following three rules:
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Basic principle: The basic element for further statistical
processing is the time-frame of one second, which is a sub-
interval compatible to both 3 and 10 seconds, already used in
professional analysers following the IEC 61000-4-30
recommendations.
The basic time-frame of one second is also considered to be
the time interval in which a constant frequency of the system
can be approximated for the “quasi-stationary” situation, thus
mitigating the effects of lower inertia and higher volatility of
frequency in Smart Grids.
In addition, the 1 second frame is also well supported by the
energy meters architectures, which re-evaluate the system
frequency as well as the sampling frequency at least once per
second, thus being tailored with meter design.
Main principles: During each second, only one or two
analysis windows of 200ms duration will be used, from the 5
such windows available within one second; the window length
is actually equal to the duration of 10 adjacent fundamental
periods of the signal and will be further called 10T0 window;
this will give enough computing time for performing other
meter tasks and also gives acceptable good conditions of
P95% calculation of the harmonics: for example, such an
analysis will be performed on 1800 data frames (30 minutes
reporting) or 3600 data frames (one hour reporting).This
allows an acceptable high number of values in order to
perform P95%30M or P95%1H statistics with comparable
accuracy to the one required in [3].
Processing data associated with only one 10T0 window in each
second mean approximately one fifth of one second, which
might give the impression that some important features would
be missed. The principle considers that, even if only smaller
parts of the wave are analysed, special harmonic situations are
not lost - if the situation is really representative, as it will be
anyhow retrieved sooner or later in one of the selected and
calculated windows: big number principle applies: 1800/3600
or 3600/7200 direct results for half an hour or for an hour.
Figure 5 gives the concept of 10T0 window: selecting one or
two times per second a number of 10 periods and shows that
after each 200 ms there is enough time left (approx. 800 ms or
300 ms) for various computations. These periods of circa 800
or 300 ms will be shorter or longer due to frequency variation,
in the conditions that the frequency measurement is
synchronized at least once per second.
With this “relaxed” sampling, the possible deviation in
frequency does not affect the calculated windows, as being
absorbed by the time of calculation between the sampled
windows, time period which is not critical for the
measurement process, thus avoiding also the need for
expensive time synchronization.
With this setup, according to figure 6, in 30 minutes the Smart
Meter can process 1800 such 10T0 windows dispersed along
with the time axis (one per each second in this particular
example) and a distribution of probability can be easily
constructed allowing P95%30M level calculation for all
considered harmonics (U7 is given in the figure as an
example).
From numerical simulations, the P95% of 1800 dispersed 10T0
windows (one from five) gives P95%30M very near the
reference value of P95%30M calculated from all 9000 windows,
with an error below 0.2% from U1 (fundamental harmonic).
The reference distribution of probability used for calculating
P95%30M_REF was based on harmonic analysis of 9000 x 10T0
simulated windows having each a U7 harmonic value spread
within a normal distribution between e.g. 0 and 10% of U1.
The analyzed 1800 x 10T0 dispersed windows allow the
calculation of P95%30M of the same U7 harmonic from the
resulted U7 distribution of probability. The error of our
method calculation of P95%30M has been found below 0.2%
from U1 in all or simulations of 30 minutes timeframes, which
is very much encouraging and promotes the method for a PQ
analysis in any Smart meters new designs.
Our additional tests showed also that un-synchronized readout
of the 1800 windows do not affect the said method error, thus
Fig. 5 – Processing one or two 10T0 windows every second
Figure 6 – Principle of method error calculation for our proposed relaxed PQ in new Smart Meters design
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allowing only weak and costless synchronization between PQ
calculations in different Smart Meters.
Moreover, other analysis windows specific to metering chip
sets which measure energy two up to five times per second
may lead to similar results, based on the statistics of large
number of data over the half or entire hour interval.
Additional principle: Harmonic currents are useful if the
direction is also considered. An additional computation may
be implemented in order to obtain active power exchanged (in
both directions) within the system for each harmonic order, to
be integrated and/or processed statistically in order to assess –
using statistic data from continuous monitoring - the most
probable path for harmonic pollution and better resolution
related to the pollution responsible [4]. The principles are the
same as the ones already presented. Details related to current
direction can also pave the way for future rules regarding the
PQ aspects in connection with energy delivered in the
commercial interval (e.g. one hour or 30 minutes).
The simplified method based on these principles are
mitigating the drawbacks shown in the previous chapter and
pave the way for assessing PQ in new Smart Meters to be
subject of large scale deployments.
 IV. ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR THE VOLTAGE LEVEL
ANALYSIS
A similar method can be used for calculating a simpler aspect
of the PQ, which is also the most important in terms of direct
effect for the final customer: the voltage level.
The standard EN 50160 treats also statistically the voltage
level and ask that voltage level mediated on 10 minutes should
be UN ±10% in 95% of the situations within a week. The 10 Fig. 7 – Voltage distribution of probability on 24.02.2015, in the commercial
minutes mediation is again based on continuous measurement interval 00:02 (during the night) measured in a real LV network
on each 10T0 window.

With the numerical simulations explained above, it can be

clearly inferred that the fundamental harmonic U1 and the rms
value (which is a quadratic sum of all harmonics) exhibit
similar characteristics, that measuring one or two times per
second give similar statistical results for P95% evaluation with
the continuous measurements of all 10T0 intervals. This was
extensively made through stochastic simulations previously
described and will be considered applicable for RMS value of
Fig. 8 – Voltage distribution of probability on 23.02.2015, in the commercial
voltage as well. interval 19-20 (evening peak hour) measured in the same real LV network

Fig 9. Distribution of probability of 3 consecutive hours(19-20, 20-21, 21-22) on the same LV metering point

Fig 10. Voltage distribution of probability of two intervals: 19-22 (3 hours) and 16-24 (8 hours) on the same LV metering point

We tested how the hourly P95% can be estimated from
voltages measured (rms values) by Smart Meters, from data
received each second from a metrology part of the meter,
named Smart Metrology Meter (SMM) and processed by an
intelligent part of the meter, namely Smart Meter eXtension
(SMX). This architecture named Unbundled Smart Meter
(USM) is already in progress to be implemented in the
Horizon 2020 project Nobel Grid [6].
By using existing meters on the market, as Smarter Metrology
Meter (SMM) and SMX based on a Raspberry Pi solution, we
acquired continuously voltage measurement data samples with
a reporting rate of 1sample/s, in order to analyse if the
statistical data processing is meaningful for each commercial
interval, e.g. each one hour.
The statistical data for different hourly time intervals can be
observed through the corresponding distribution of probability
(DB). Figure 7 and 8 show DBs for different hours during a
day. Figure 7 shows a higher statistical level of the voltage
level for a night hour interval, which is normal for a low
energy consumption period. Figure 9 shows the DB in a peak

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 hour and the statistical values of U are much lower than in the
previous situation. Figure 9 shows a superposition of such
hourly DBs for different hourly intervals.
By analysing these statistical values we can see that there is
extremely useful to have statistical DB each commercial
interval (one hour) rather than each 10 minutes, because the
voltage level is a PQ index that can be directly related with the
energy transfer in the considered network section.
Finally, the measurements made with the USM in an LV
network were processed on longer periods, of 3 and 8 hours,
showing the ability to estimate P95% in all such time-frames.
It is important to mention that the hourly P95% and its
distribution of probabilities can be easily used for retrieving
the same data for longer periods. In this respect, the DBs and
P95% levels from figure 10 can be calculated from individual
DBs such as those from figure 7-9. This is an important
feature of our proposed method, as using the full chain
linearization and low level computation, in comparison with
today standards which use hybrid statistics (quadratic
mediation on 10 minutes and then linear statistics) with high
requirements in terms of computations efforts.
Implementation in newly designed Smart Meters: With
today new chip sets for meters, based on powerful ARM
Cortex processors, these functionalities (and additional ones
not presented in this paper) can be implemented with
following performances:
• P95% calculation each 30 minutes or one hour (P95%30M,
P95%1H), for each harmonic of voltage and current up to
harmonic order 32 or more; this allows a better
correlation with delivered energy, based on commercial
intervals, with the PQ behaviour reported with a
compatible rate;
• Load profiles of P95% and of distribution of probability
on each harmonic of U and I can be stored for long
periods such as one month or more with existing low-cost
memories (e.g. 1 - 4 GB eMCC or SD card), so it
becomes affordable for large deployments in new Smart
Meters;
• Directional harmonic currents or powers through their
P95% and distribution of probability can be measured and
stored as well, bringing new information regarding the
responsible load for harmonic pollution.
• The method can be used also related to the rms voltage
level, thus giving a simple solution for the EN 50160
standard as well, as a voltage level quality approach
through the same statistical approach.
V. CONCLUSIONS
This paper proposed an alternative PQ-framed aggregation
algorithms to be implemented in modern Smart Meters, able to
achieve good compression rates while preserving the ability to
reflect the relevant phenomena in power systems.
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Main advantages brought by this alternative ”light” method is
that it allows implementation in new Smart Meters, or in
supplementary modules, if the meter has a modular (flexible)
design.
With the possibility to get P95% values for both the (rms)
voltage and for the individual voltage harmonics, all related to
commercial intervals used in energy market (P95%30M,
p95%1H), the new approach paves the way to relate the
delivered energy to its “quality” in that time interval, still
keeping also the option for computing a mean value for one
week interval, P95%1WEEK.
Moreover, the measurement uncertainty of P95%30M, p95%1H
from our numerical simulations is always below 0.2% of
fundamental, compared with reference values obtained in
typical harmonic states with controlled normal distribution of
probability over several 30 minutes and one hour simulated
timeframes.
With this approach for PQ monitoring, having light footprint
on Smart Meters computation power, new standards for PQ
monitoring to be implemented in New Smart meters design
need to be considered. With such new and simplified PQ
standards, each consumer or prosumer will be empowered to
measure not only the delivered energy on each commercial
interval, but also the quality of the delivered product, thus
allowing new business models based on such data. More
complex analysis based on [1,3] may remain only for special
cases and can be based on temporary measurements in
selected end-user’s supply nodes, in case of special claims.
The new proposed solution will allow therefore a “universal”
and “democratic” assessment of PQ for each customer, being a
real improvement especially for the new Smart Grids arena,
where both consumption and distributed production are
present and where harmonics and voltage control become
more related also to increasing presence of the inverters as
coupling equipment for both PV production and storage.
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