One of the most visible customer-facing challenges an electric utility can face comes in the form of voltage interruptions. From the short, fraction-of-a-second momentary to the prolonged, multi-hour (or even…
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Real-Time Voltage Interruption Detection and Alerting
Utility situational awareness is critical with today's high customer expectations, increased regulatory scrutiny, and reliance on stable AC power. Voltage interruption/outage detection is the most basic, and usually the most…
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.…
Configuring Alerts with a Guardian in PQ Canvass
PQ Canvass is Power Monitors Inc.’s newest iteration of web-based power quality analysis software. It builds on the foundation established by Canvass and adds many new features, including variable-interval stripcharts;…
Understanding RMS Measurements
Power Monitors, Inc. provides a wide array of power quality test instrumentation. These devices are used to measure line voltage, current and power from or to a number of different…
Voltage Notching Effects on Harmonic Distortion
Notching is a voltage waveform distortion resulting from short-duration high current pulses. These distortions typically present themselves graphically as a “notch” in the time domain representation of the waveform. The…
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…
Getting Started with the NMS
The NMS (or Network Management Software) is a lightweight Java Desktop Application produced by PMI for the bulk configuration of Boomerang voltage/current/power monitors. This document aims to provide the user…
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…
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…
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…
