As electric utilities, industrial facilities, and renewable generation sites expand into remote off-grid locations, reliable cellular connectivity is not always available. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications, specifically Starlink, offer…
Communications White Papers
Power quality white papers on Communications.
34 white papers in Communications
Overview of the Seeker+
The Seeker+ runs a power quality survey right out of the box. Mount it, energize it, and it detects the circuit hookup and logs every measure it supports, each aggregated…
Revolution Download in PQ Canvass
Revolution meters are compact, cellular-connected power monitors. Unlike the Tensor, Seeker, Guardian, and Bolt devices, which initiate their own uploads to PQ Canvass, Revolutions do not push their recordings to…
Tensor, Simplifying a Complex Enviroment
PMI has introduced the Tensor, a next generation plugin power quality analyzer. The Tensor (Figure 1) is designed to plug in to any standard 3-prong receptacle. This white paper will…
Wireless PQ Monitoring with the Javelin and Revolution
Introduction The Javelin is a utility-friendly cell router, providing communication access to devices in the field such as capacitor controllers, reclosers, voltage regulators, and DER inverters. A Javelin may also…
Using PMI Boomerangs with an RTAC
Introduction In addition to PMI's cloud-based Canvass system compatibility, Boomerang distribution monitors including a DNP3 port for use in SCADA. Advanced distribution programs such as volt/VAR optimization, DER management, and…
Live PQ Waveforms in a Web Browser
PQ Canvass is the next generation of online power quality analysis tools provided by PMI. This new cloud service offers enhanced graphing, a full suite of PQ analysis tools, recording-based…
Wireless Power Quality
The time and cost of deploying PQ instrumentation only to return later in order to retrieve it (without the guarantee that the PQ anomaly has occurred) is often times exorbitant.…
Cybersecurity and Cell Communications with the Guardian, Revolution, & Boomerang
Cybersecurity is an important component for any electric utility network device. PMI devices such as the Cell Guardian, Revolution, and Boomerang (Figure 1) generate data from raw voltage and current…
Cell, WiFi, and More with the New Cell Guardian Meter Socket Recorder
PMI has just introduced a major redesign of the Guardian meter socket power quality analyzer. This white paper will focus specifically on the new Cell Guardian recorder and cover the…
Provisioning Boomerangs with a cellular data plan for Canvass and/or SCADA Systems
The Boomerang is one of the newest power quality measurement offerings by PMI. Capable of measuring voltage, current and real power, the Boomerang comes in multiple different measurement configurations and…
The New / Improved IP Address Resolution Server
PMI's Revolution can be configured to use a cellular modem as one of its many different means of connectivity. When this option is present the modem can be configured in…