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7 Phasor Measurement Unit
 Andy Yoon
Bogdan Pinte
Kenta Kirihara
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The motive for our project is to build a Phasor Measurement Unit using National Instrumentsâ?? labVIEW and a single board RIO (programmable FPGA module). The PMU will measure RMS voltage, phase, and frequency of a signal and record the values with a precise timestamp retrieved from a GPS signal. Final product will be much cheaper and smaller in size than existing PMUs. As a result, more units are expected to be deployed, which could potentially increase the stability of the U.S. power grid.

The collected data will be saved to a web server, where users will be able to either save the data to a computer, or observe the voltage signal from the wall.

AC/DC and DC/DC converters will be added to power the single board RIO, GPS, and LEDs that will show the status of the PMU.

Voltage input values will have to be stepped down with no error in order to meet the input range of the single board RIO as well.

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