A multi-platform Data Acquisition Device for Power Quality metrological certification

Author

Caciotta, M. ; Giarnetti, S. ; Leccese, F. ; Trinca, D.

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Roma Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

16-19 May 2010

Firstpage

404

Lastpage

407

Abstract

A Data Acquisition USB Device has been realized to be used in Power Quality monitoring activities. The adopted solution allows to perform 8 channel simultaneous data acquisition with external certified time and voltage references, working at 499 samples per 50 Hz period. The self-powered USB interface combined to multiplatform FTDI Virtual ComPort drivers yields a simple-to-use and scalable device; it can be driven simply sending and receiving data over High Speed RS232 virtual interfaces, without requiring any advanced programming skill. The virtual serial communication makes data acquisition software portable over many platforms, regardless development environment and programming language. The proposed device has been tested with custom software written in C# and VB6, than in LabView and MatLab environment.

Keywords

Certification; Data acquisition; Electric variables measurement; Instruments; Phase measurement; Power measurement; Power quality; Time measurement; Universal Serial Bus; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2010 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague, Czech Republic

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5370-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5371-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2010.5489922

Filename

5489922