Wireless Power quality Analyzer

[Acibrix]

Hey everyone, am a student beginning to building a wireless power quality analyzer. This device is suppose to detect some power disturbances, label the kind of disturbance, and store the data in a database which will be transmitted wireless to be used for analysis purposes.

Project flow:

1) measure P,V,I
2) Send feed to A/D
3)Use DSP to detect disturbances (swell, sag, flicker, harmonics)
4)store findings
5)Wireless transmit

Any ideas on how to design this? Anyone has a schematic of a PQA's I can use as reference? I am kinds stomped on what A/D to purchase. How am I suppose to test it before purchasing the parts. My school's not giving me parts unless I know my design works, am guessing I'll use PSpice for that.

Thanks for your time/help

 

[Russlk]

#3 alone is a project. I think your project is too ambitious. You should also consider power factor. Perhaps you should limit the project to #1. How many years do you have to finish the project?

 

[Acibrix]

I have about 3 months to complete it. It's going to be single phase and #1,2 and 3 are the important part of the project