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…
Canvass
Introduction to PQ Canvass
Power Monitors has released a new cloud-based software product for power quality analysis, called PQ Canvass. PQ Canvass incorporates the features and convenience of our previous online software, Canvass, many…
Seven Common Utility Distribution Challenges: How the Boomerang and Canvass Can Help
Here's our quick list of 7 common utility distribution challenges. These shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in the industry as utility companies are experiencing more challenges than ever.…
Software to Diagnose Power Quality Issues
Data analysis is the key to understanding and solving engineering problems on the distribution system. PMI offers three types of software tools to speed the analysis process, and help manage…
Advanced Daily Profile Analysis with Canvass
The Daily Profiles graph is likely one of the most underutilized Canvass graphing features. This particular graph is great for identifying long term (and even short term) trends, many of…
End-to-End Boomerang Cybersecurity
Power Monitors Inc.'s Boomerang voltage/current/power sensor, and Canvass, the web-based power quality analysis application is a system for gathering and analyzing data, especially over long periods of time. This long-term…
Stripchart Graphing in Canvass
The Boomerang is a device developed by Power Monitors for the purpose of allowing continuous monitoring of voltage, current, and power data. The Canvass web application and data storage service…
Canvass and Cybersecurity
Canvass is PMI's web-enabled distribution system monitoring and analysis platform. Deploying Canvass as a web application provides a wide array of benefits: one installation base (no need to push updates…
Browser Security and Performance with Canvass
Canvass is a powerful graphical web application for the viewing and analysis of voltage, current, and power data collected by PMI Boomerangs and Revolutions. Hosted at https://canvass.powermonitors.com, the application provides…
Voltage and Current Scaling in Canvass
The ability to store and apply multiplicative scaling factors to voltage, current, and power data is a new feature recently added to the cloud-based Canvass system. Scale factors have a…
Photovoltaic Monitoring with Canvass
The use of distributed generation has witnessed a dramatic increase over the past decade. The two most popular of these – solar and wind – provide a unique set of…
Voltage Unbalance with Canvass
Voltages are rarely perfectly balanced in three-phase systems. Although small unbalances are not usually a problem, if this unbalance becomes too great then the unbalance can cause problems especially for…
