Universal serial bus enhances virtual instrument based distributed power monitoring

Author

Young, Chung-Ping ; Devaney, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Digital Power Instrum. Group, Missouri Univ., Columbia, MO, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

920

Abstract

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) links a distributed multi-circuit power monitoring system to its virtual instrument (VI) host computer. The distributed interconnection provides enhanced system performance at reduced cost, since the USB host controller is a standard function of up-to-date personal computers (PCs) and low-cost high-performance USB hardware is readily available. The 12 Mbps, recently updated to 480 Mbps, transfer rate of USB improves data transmission capability and boosts the real-time performance of the whole VI monitoring system when compared with conventional serial communications. In addition, the USB dynamic attachment and removal feature allows each meter to be connected or disconnected from its VI host computer without any system interruption. However, the complete VI solutions are not currently supported by any USB hosts and devices. This paper presents an innovative USB VI strategy to implement integrated power monitoring applications and shows its superior performance

Keywords

computerised monitoring; peripheral interfaces; power engineering computing; power system measurement; virtual instrumentation; 12 Mbit/s; 480 Mbit/s; USB host controller; data transmission capability; distributed interconnection; distributed multi-circuit power monitoring system; dynamic attachment and removal feature; enhanced system performance; low-cost high-performance hardware; real-time performance; reduced cost; service configuration; software architecture; universal serial bus; virtual instrument based system; Communication system control; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Cost function; Distributed computing; Instruments; Microcomputers; Power system interconnection; System performance; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2000. IMTC 2000. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5890-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2000.848866

Filename

848866