A low-cost embedded platform for synchronised wide area frequency measurement

Author

Damle, A.M. ; Kulkarni, A.M.

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Implementation of a frequency measurement device based on ARM-embedded computer viz. Raspberry Pi is presented. This device is used as a part of a wide area frequency measurement system implemented at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Free and open source software is used including Linux based operating system patched with a realtime development framework. This serves as a low-cost high performance alternative to the existing frequency measurement device which uses two computers: a general purpose computer and a micro-controller board. This system may be used for carrying out other wide area measurements as well.

Keywords

Linux; frequency measurement; microcontrollers; operating systems (computers); power engineering computing; power system measurement; public domain software; ARM-embedded computer; Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; Linux based operating system; Raspberry Pi; free source software; frequency measurement device; general purpose computer; low-cost embedded platform; microcontroller board; open source software; synchronised wide area frequency measurement system; Computers; Hardware; Image edge detection; Kernel; Real-time systems; Time-frequency analysis; Network Time Protocol (NTP); Raspberry Pi; Wide Area Frequency Measurement; Xenomai;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Systems Conference (NPSC), 2014 Eighteenth National

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NPSC.2014.7103811

Filename

7103811