Abstract:
Electricity has become a vital commodity in the
contemporary world. People use electricity to fulfill most of their
day-to-day needs. For a better electricity supply network, two
parameters should be satisfied namely, reliability and power
quality. After fulfilling the reliability criteria of the electricity
network, the consumer will expect a regulated and cost effective
supply of power. Therefore, monitoring and analyzing the quality
of the power supply becomes a major requirement. However,
electricity service providers do not always disclose the power
quality to consumers, particularly in developing countries.
Moreover, in some places the service providers do not even
measure the quality. Thus, it is left to the consumers to measure
the power quality if there is a concern about it. This paper
discusses implementation of a simple power quality analyzer
which includes data collection, storage and power quality
analyzer. Different quality parameters which are used to describe
a power supply have been taken into the analysis.
