An Electric Energy Quality Meter Using Hardware Reconfigurable Computing

The use of electronic loads in production processes has been increased lately in the industries, aiming at improving automation and products quality. At the same time, operational costs are reducing, including the cost of electric energy. Together with these advantages many problems appear, such as electromagnetic interferences and harmonics, justifying the insertion of quality and amount of electric energy meters (EEQ meter) for evaluations and analyses for both, consumers and companies. This work describes and analyses several issues in the implementation of a EEQ meter, emphasizing the functional block implementation using hardware reconfigurable computation. The advantages of this approach, such as execution time and parallelism, are explored in this paper