Educational platform for reliability assessment of power quality

Power quality (PQ) has been increasing interest in recent years due to the high integration of sources of distributed generation (DG) in the electricity market. This interest has led a considerable amount of research into early detection of faults and their in processes in operation. This paper presents the design and implementation of an educational platform based on embedded electronic systems to operate in real time in DG framework. We contend that the causal relationship between building model solutions and developing products from these solutions provides a sound basis for industrial strength software engineering. The proposed test bench enables both undergraduate and graduate electrical and electronics engineering students to analyze the modelling techniques developed for event analysis. The architecture has been specially configured to assess the efficiency of algorithms when they are executed in real time. A case study, as well as the experimental results, are presented, which show and address the performance of the educational platform.