Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Phasor Measurement Unit: A Comprehensive Review

The complexity of the contemporary electrical power systems imposes challenges in the aspect of monitoring, protection and control. In order to obtain a high speed of response, wide area effect and prices synchronisation, the grid control functions can be benefited by the implementation of Phasor Measurement Units (PMU). The paper is aimed to make a review of the commercial implementation of Phasor Measurement Units and then open source based implementations (open architecture hardware and software). This paper focuses on standard implementations; as a consequence, the concept of virtual PMU is not discussed here.