A software development toolkit for real-time synchrophasor applications

Author

VANFRETTI, LUIGI ; Aarstrand, Vemund H. ; Almas, M.S. ; Peric, Vedran S. ; Gjerde, J.O.

Author_Institution

KTH R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2013

fDate

16-20 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This article presents a software development toolkit for Wide Area Monitoring Systems. By using this development toolkit, a researcher is able to manipulate synchrophasor data in the LabView environment, which enables fast software prototyping and testing. This toolkit makes full scale testing in real-time easier for researchers, liberating them of complex and time consuming synchrophasor data handling. The toolkit exploits the IEEE C37.118.2-2011 protocol making it independent of any specific equipment and their manufacturers. An application of the development kit is demonstrated in a laboratory environment with a specially designed experimental setup composed of a real-time digital simulator and four phasor measurement units (PMUs).

Keywords

IEEE standards; phasor measurement; power engineering computing; software tools; IEEE C37.118.2-2011 protocol; LabView; phasor measurement units; real-time digital simulator; real-time synchrophasor; software development toolkit; software prototyping; software testing; synchrophasor data handling; wide area monitoring systems; Buffer storage; Data mining; Monitoring; Phasor measurement units; Real-time systems; Software; Testing; PMU applications; Wide Area Monitoring Systems; real time hardware-in-the-loop simulation; software development toolkit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PowerTech (POWERTECH), 2013 IEEE Grenoble

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTC.2013.6652191

Filename

6652191