SEL SEL-5703 Synchrowave Monitoring

SEL-5703 Synchrowave Monitoring

Real-Time and Historic Trending and Archiving

Improve understanding of system events and expedite root cause analysis with high-resolution time-series data.

Synchrowave Monitoring receives and analyzes synchrophasor data, continuous waveform streams, and event reports to provide power quality monitoring and disturbance analysis.

Disturbance Monitoring

Analyze synchrophasor, continuous waveform, and event report data for a complete disturbance monitoring solution.

Easily find system disturbances, and export data to CSV and COMTRADE data formats for NERC PRC-002-2.

PRC-0028-1. and IEEE 2800 compliance. Combine Synchrowave Monitoring with SEL-5705 Synchrowave Reports software to generate automated IEEE 519 harmonic compliance reports.

Real-Time System Visibility

Improve system visibility by viewing live, subsecond, and time-aligned information from across the entire power system.

Gain additional insight into the dynamic behavior of the power system through waveform signatures to aid in analysis during abnormal conditions.

Power System Model Validation

Record the system response to generator trips, load shedding, remedial action scheme (RAS) operations, and other events.

Analyze the archived system responses, and compare them to power system models. Simply export system response data from Synchrowave Monitoring to external power system simulation and modeling applications.

Renewable Energy Monitoring

Gain perspective on how increasing renewable energy sources impact system stability. Dynamics from low-inertia generation sources change quickly—too fast to see at traditional SCADA rates.

High-resolution measurements in Synchrowave Monitoring detect and track the impact renewables have on power quality metrics, including subsynchronous oscillation (SSO), rapid voltage change (RVC), and harmonic distortion.

Continuous Waveform Recording and Analysis

Never miss an event again. A growing line of SEL hardware provides continuous waveform streams in real time, including the SEL-2240 Axion, SEL Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC), SEL-735 Power Quality and Revenue Meter, and soon-to-release SEL-T35 Time-Domain Power Monitor. Sampling and streaming rates range from 3 kilosamples per second (ksps) to 14.4 ksps. Synchrowave Monitoring software receives these data streams, provides real-time metering values, trends these values, provides real-time alarms, and archives the data.

Virtual Metering

View and customize a suite of power monitoring quantities. Virtual metering calculations utilize the 3.0–14.4 ksps data streams to provide power metering quantities, including voltage, current, power, frequency, symmetrical components, and power factor.

Additional power quality quantities include harmonics; RVC; voltage sag, swell, and interruption (VSSI); and flicker. The virtual metering application also calculates PMU quantities with the continuous waveform data

Synchrowave Monitoring—Trending and Archiving Application Package

The Trending and Archiving package includes the following applications:

Timeline—Displays real-time and historical data within Synchrowave Monitoring.

Dashboards—Provides real-time visualization of power system data and information across multiple panels.

Panels—Includes basic streaming data visualization and analysis panels:

Time-Series Trend

Numeric Meter

Phasor Scope

Digital Chart—Provides visualization of digital signals at various time scales.

Device Events Panel—Lists a summary of event reports that are stored in the acSELerator Database.

Sequence, Power, and Custom Calculations—Defines and executes user calculations on streaming power system data.

Synchrowave Event Express—Enables web client visualization of relay event reports archived in the acSELerator Database or Blueframe Device Management and Automation (DMA) software.

Virtual Metering—Provides monitoring of metering data through the Synchrowave Platform.

acSELerator Database Reader—Connects Synchrowave Monitoring to the event reports stored in the acSELerator Database. acSELerator Team SEL-5045 Software or DMA software automate event report collection from SEL devices, meters, and controllers.

acSELerator Database Receiver—Connects Synchrowave Monitoring to the event reports stored in the acSELerator Database or DMA software.

IEEE C37.118 Reader—Reads from IEEE C37.118 synchrophasor streams to display and archive measured signals.

CWS Receiver—Provides monitoring of 3 ksps signals.

Historian—Archives synchrophasor data within a programmed retention period.

Data Indexer—Creates indices of historian data, enabling fast data access.

Data Export—Downloads selected data directly from the web client display in CSV or COMTRADE format.

Web Gateway—Provides HTTPS configuration and authentication via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)-based Microsoft Active Directory.

Synchrowave Monitoring—Power Monitoring Application Package

The Power Monitoring package includes the following features and applications:

All the features from the Trending and Archiving application package.

Advanced data visualization and analysis panels:

Bar Chart

Dial

Table

XY Chart

Histogram

Oscillation and Disturbance Detection—Identifies unusual disturbances on the power system.

Power System Model—Associates signals with physical power system equipment.

Notifications and Alarms—Notifies operators and engineers of new conditions on the power system.

Synchrowave Platform

Synchrowave Monitoring includes a Microsoft Windows-based version of the Synchrowave Platform.

The platform supports installation for one server.

Synchrowave Platform applications run as Windows Services. Applications are packaged together into the Windows Installer.

Updating applications individually is not supported in Synchrowave Monitoring. Installing the latest Windows installer will update all applications in the platform.

Synchrophasor Recording System Requirements

Windows OS (Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 11. Windows Server 2016.  Windows Server 2019. or Windows Server 2022 Standard)

Local storage (preferred) or high-performance network drive. Storage requirements depend on number of phasor measurement units (PMUs), number of signals per PMU, and data rate.

(125 GB per PMU per year at 60 messages per second is often used for approximate storage estimates.)

Continuous Recording System Requirements

Windows OS (Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 11. Windows Server 2016.  Windows Server 2019. or Windows Server 2022 Standard)

Local storage preferred. Storage requirements depend on the number of waveform measurement devices, number of channels, and streaming rate, as exemplified below.