Building an Electrical Power Quality, Consumption, and Distribution Monitoring System with Virtual Instrumentation
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Overview
This document provides an overview of the National Instruments Electrical Power Quality, Consumption, and Monitoring system platforms. It includes tutorials, several end customer success stories, and example configurations.
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Key FeaturNI-PXI-GPIB Instrumentation Interfaces of the National Instruments Electrical Power Quality Monitoring Solutions
Many features of the NI platform for electrical power monitoring and test applications will help you to tailor your applications to meet your specific needs. On-line and off-line analysis capabilities.
- High speed time waveform logging
- Ethernet connectivity with client/server architectures
- Data Acquisition, Data Analysis, and Data Presentation all in one platform
- Synchronized Measurements for electrical power voltages, currents, and digital switchgear
- Power Quality Measurements including power factor, power metering, harmonic distortion, and transient events including sags, sells, and impulses
- Extensive graphical plotting capabilities including polar plots, time waveform plots, and statistics
- Alarming, Reports, and Data Management
- Sequence of Events Recorder
- Most complete math analysis Toolset in the industry allows for additional analysis
- Open and flexible approach, scalable to future systems
- Integrated platform based on commercial off-the-shelf tools
- Worldwide sales and support
Computer farms, substations, and manufacturing or process plants now have the tools to monitor power quality and consumption to aid in achieving reliable and cost effective operations. Results from power quality and consumption monitoring allow for electrical power supplier selection and electronic load balancing within a plant.
Tutorials Describing the National Instruments Platform
- National Instruments tools are easily applied to Electrical Power Monitoring applications. These tutorials, white papers, and tools listings provide an excellent starting point for developing your electrical power monitoring application.
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PC Based Spectral Analysis - Accurate and Effecient.
Power Quality Monitoring with LabVIEW Archived Webcast shows the benefits of LabVIEW for modern power quality monitoring
Understanding Power Quality Measurements
Power Quality Primer
National Instruments Sensor Advisor
LEM Voltage and Current Sensors
Harmonic Distortion Analysis in LabVIEW
Customer Success Stories
Many of National Instruments customers are successful using Virtual Instrumentation for Electrical Power Monitoring applications. These links provide excellent examples and customer use cases.
See Also:
Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis System for Power Quality Monitoring of commercial and industrial facilities
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Internet-Ready Power Network Analyzer for Power Quality Measurements and Monitoring
Creating a Power Acquisition Network with LabVIEW
Integrated Hardware and Software Yield Better Power Monitor
National Instruments integrated software and hardware platform is ideally suited for monitoring controlling or developing energy and power systems experiments
Common Configurations
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Many computer-based measurement and automation products aid scientists and engineers in research, design, validation, production testing, field monitoring and field test of industrial power systems. Learn more about NI software, data acquisition, signal conditioning, instrument control, and real-time control products you can use to build your electrical power quality, power consumption, and power distribution monitoring solution.
These suggested configurations are applicable to factory and field electrical power monitoring and diagnostics applications. Many customers may want to mix and match configurations. Our trained technical sales staff is more than happy to assist in alternative configurations.
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