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Metering Software Solutions

Automate data collection, perform real-time power monitoring, and improve power quality analysis.

Increase power system awareness using software solutions that collect, analyze, monitor, and report meter data. Select from three software bundles: the Meter Data Bundle, the Power Quality Bundle, or the Energy and Power Monitoring Bundle. Order a bundle when you purchase an SEL meter, or purchase a bundle anytime for meters already in the field.


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Visualize and Analyze Power System Data—Derive more insights from meters or other devices, and analyze long-term trends based on historical data. Use interactive graphs to isolate events or specific time periods. Examine data on the web interface, or export data for further analysis.

Retrieve Reports on Demand or by Email—Generate reports on demand, or receive emails in regular intervals, including every 15-minutes, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. Choose between PDF or CSV file formats.

Monitor Power Quality and Confirm Compliance—Easily monitor power quality and confirm compliance with IEEE Std 519-2014, Standard for Harmonic Control in Electric Power Systems. Innovations in ac/dc and dc/ac power conversion have led to increased harmonic distortion on distribution and transmission lines, which negatively affects neighboring loads and generation sources. Monitor a single point or an entire power system for compliance, and detect distortions that cause excess heat, efficiency loss, system capacity reduction, and other problems.

Automate Data Collection—Accelerate root-cause analysis and reporting by automating the aggregation of voltage sag, swell, and interruption (VSSI); load data profile (LDP); Sequential Events Recorder (SER); and event data from meters.

Optimize Your System—Visualize and report system-wide meter data, including VSSI data, LDP information, SER data, and water, air, gas, electricity, and steam (WAGES) consumption details. Use meter data to validate usage patterns and identify areas for improvement, such as avoiding peak demand charges by moving overlapping electric processes to off-peak hours. ITI (CBEMA) curves and detailed voltage event tables help you recognize power disturbance issues before they affect equipment.

Monitor Power in Real Time—Monitor the real-time state of the power system using streaming measurements for key system and facility assets. As power system generation and load become more dynamic, high-rate data help identify hidden equipment failures and inefficiencies early to improve reliability and uptime.

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Capture Every Disturbance

Conventional power monitors depend on phasor-based calculations to detect faults and disturbances, but power system events can happen faster than a cycle—the typical measurement rate of these devices. Kilosample-per-second (ksps) time-domain measurements expose power system disturbances that traditional power monitors do not typically capture, allowing you to take immediate action.

Monitoring devices, including protective relays and power quality meters, capture several cycles of waveform disturbance data based on predefined event conditions. Power system disturbances become less predictable as more distributed energy resources and nonlinear loads connect to the power system. Monitoring devices may fail to identify an event, such as voltage oscillations. Additionally, disturbances like voltage sags on distribution circuits can last longer than the waveform recording window, and traditional recording devices may fail to capture the event. The SEL continuous streaming and recording system provides gapless recording of voltage, current, and energy transfer.

monitor displaying System Monitoring interface for the SEL-5703 Synchrowave Monitoring Software

System Architecture

Collect LDP, VSSI, Sequence of Events (SOE), and event data, and stream synchrophasor and continuous waveform data from SEL meters using SEL software for analysis, monitoring, and reporting.

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Bundling Options

Based on your needs, select from one of three software bundle options: the Meter Data bundle, the Power Quality bundle, or the Energy and Power Monitoring bundle. Order a bundle when you purchase an SEL meter, or purchase a bundle anytime for meters already in the field. See the Features section to learn about the capabilities of each software bundle. Review the Licensing section for a complete table comparing features available in each software bundle.

Meter Data Bundle

The Meter Data bundle includes the basics for automated SEL-735 Power Quality and Revenue Meter data collection and general reporting on interval data or captured oscillography events.

Use interactive charts and reports to quickly identify trends and opportunities for improvement and validate usage patterns. In just a few steps, you can easily export and email reports in PDF or CSV format.

Power Quality Bundle

The Power Quality bundle offers all Meter Data reports and adds an IEEE 519 compliance report, which streamlines power quality compliance monitoring.

A license for SEL-5703 Synchrowave Monitoring is also included in this bundle. Synchrowave Monitoring receives streaming data via a phasor measurement unit (PMU) or continuous waveform streaming (CWS) device. For applications such as virtual metering, you can visualize data in real-time dashboard plots processed by the internal calculations engine. Export data for further analysis in third-party software.

Energy and Power Monitoring Bundle

The Energy and Power Monitoring bundle is the most feature-rich and capable software bundle. It brings together all the capabilities of interactive charts, power quality reporting, and continuous waveform analytics, and it adds alarming and detection for streaming data. This software bundle is a valuable tool for engineers and data scientists who are developing the latest detection algorithms for events such as subsynchronous oscillation and early PT failure.

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      Alarms and Alerts

      Receive notifications of any issues or anomalies present in the power system. Configure custom warning and alert thresholds to quickly address issues.

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      Oscillation and Detection

      Real-time monitoring helps operators immediately recognize oscillatory conditions and respond to potentially abnormal power system conditions.

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      Disturbance Detection

      Because the software continuously monitors the power system, operators can quickly identify any deviations from normal conditions and take corrective action to maintain grid reliability and stability,

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      Calculations

      Define and execute user-defined calculations on continuous waveform and PMU measurements.

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      Power System Modeling

      Associate signal measurements with power equipment. Use Geographic Information System (GIS) data and nominal voltages to connect stations, buses, and lines for monitoring and analysis.

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      Trending

      Compare real-time and historical trends.

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      Relay Events

      Correlate relay event records to the system response. Select the event report to see the relay oscillography.

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      Phasor Scope

      Visualize phase angle separation between measurements to determine system stress.

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      Timeline

      Use the timeline to seamlessly transition between real-time and historical data.

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      Event Summary

      View event report summary information.

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      Oscillography

      Visualize the trending of relay oscillography.

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      Digitals

      View the status of the Relay Word bits state with respect to time.

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      Relay Settings

      See the state of relay settings at the time of the event report trigger.

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      High-resolution data

      Visualize waveforms at 3.0–14.4 ksps to capture fast transients and high-frequency disturbances.

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      Enhanced power quality monitoring

      The detailed monitoring of disturbances and abnormal conditions helps engineers and operators proactively maintain grid reliability and stability.

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      Easily visualize metering data collected by Synchrowave Reports by using the web interface.

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      Select a chart template for any configured reports.

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      Adjust the time range for a visualization to focus on specific events or other areas of interest.

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      Export data from the current visualization for further analysis or record keeping.

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      Predesigned reports styled for readability make it easy for operators to quickly find the data they need.

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      Visualize the health of your power system using intuitive, time-stamped charts.

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      PDF reports include tabular data and keys to support data analysis and interpretation.

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      Quickly confirm compliance using color-coded pass and fail indicators.

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      Review individual measurement levels up to the 63rd harmonic for greater awareness and diagnosis.

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      Generate and subscribe to detailed daily or weekly reports.

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Combine software with a new SEL meter order, or purchase bundles anytime for existing meters. The table below details the features and price of the Meter Data bundle, Power Quality bundle, and Energy and Power Monitoring bundle.

BundleMeter Data Power Quality Energy and Power Monitoring
SEL Blueframe Device Management and Automation (DMA)/acSELerator Team SEL-5045 Software
Disturbance Monitoring (Event and SER Collection)
Meter Monitoring (LDP and VSSI Collection)
SEL-5705 Synchrowave Reports
SER
LDP
VSSI
Signals/WAGES
IEEE 519 Compliance 
Synchrowave Monitoring
PMU and CWS Receiving 
Time-Series Historian (CWS: 3 ksps Continuous Waveform Recording) 
Calculation Engine (10 ms Energy Packets) 
Virtual Metering 
Visualization, Trending, and Dashboarding 
Data Export 
Web Client Oscillography Analysis 
Alarming and Thresholds  
Oscillation Detection (Subsynchronous Oscillation Detection)  
Disturbance Detection (Subsynchronous Oscillation Detection)  
PT Failure Detection  
Threshold Monitoring  
Full DMA Asset Management Suite  
Power Quality Compliance*
IEEE 2800 
PRC-002-2 
PRC-028-1 
Price$600$850$1,100

*Using calculation libraries

Metering Software Solutions Reports

Visit the SEL-5705 Synchrowave Reports page for a detailed description of each report and associated example.

Metering Software Solutions Software

Supporting Software

SEL-5705 Synchrowave Reports

Synchrowave Reports automates reporting of metering and power quality data via email or web browser. Quickly identify trends, harmonic disturbances, and other power quality concerns to drive planning, operating, and accounting decisions that increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Learn more and download on the Synchrowave Reports software page.

SEL-5703 Synchrowave Monitoring

Improve your understanding of system events and expedite root-cause analysis using Synchrowave Monitoring software. Synchrowave Monitoring brings synchrophasor data and relay event reports together, allowing engineers to analyze both the high-level system impact of an event and detailed oscillography data.

Learn more and download on the Synchrowave Monitoring software page.

SEL Device Management and Automation (DMA) Application Suite

Available on the Blueframe platform, SEL DMA applications automatically collect, store, and manage device-specific information like oscillography, SOE, device settings, and property information, as well as providing automated password rotation and streamlined device audits.

Learn more on the SEL DMA page.

acSELerator Team SEL-5045 Software

Team automates the collection of power system data—such as event reports, SOE data, and meter profile data—storing it in a central location for easy access with other SEL software.

Learn more and download on the Team software page.