S3DK

Smart grid Synchrophasor SDK (S3DK) - A LabVIEW API and a Real-Time Data Mediator for PMU Application Development!

Overview

The Smart-grid Synchrophasor SDK (S3DK) is toolkit akin to a software development kit (SDK) for developing synchrophasor applications, providing a number of functionalities that enable high-level PMU application development within the LabVIEW environment. This Smart-grid Synchrophasor SDK (S3DK) proposes a paradigm based on the concept of distributed applications, which allows development and deployment to be independent of the existing software stack deployed in power system control centers and to leverage PMU data at any level of a synchrophasor system hierarchy. This software has been released as open source software to facilitate broader and fast prototyping of synchrophasor applications.

An open access paper that serves to introduce the S3DK, is provided in the following link. If you use any resources in this repository, please cite the paper:

M. Baudette, L. Vanfretti, and S. Tyagi, “S3DK: An Open Source Toolkit for Prototyping Synchrophasor Applications” in Electronics, 2024, 13 (8), 1513. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13081513

• You can access the paper on this link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/8/1513

In addition, please feel free to include a citation to the initial work that lead to the open source release of the S3DK was published in the following paper:

L. Vanfretti, V. H. Aarstrand, M. S. Almas, V. S. Perić and J. O. Gjerde, "A software development toolkit for real-time synchrophasor applications," 2013 IEEE Grenoble Conference, Grenoble, France, 2013, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PTC.2013.6652191.

• You can download the paper from the publisher's website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6652191
• The paper is behind the publisher's paywall. A pre-print of the paper can be found on ResearchGate here.

Requirements

• LabView 2018 SP1, 64 bit or LabView 2019, 64 bit
• Real-Time Data:
  • A PMU or PDC, PMU Connection tester, or
  • A PDC simulator (provided below)
• Familiarity with LabView.
• VI Package Manager from JKL

Quickstart Guide

A quickstart guide is provided here.

Documentation

A website with detailed documentation an all S3DK functions is available at https://alsetlab.github.io/S3DK/docs/S3DK.html

Installation

• Double click on the downloaded file. The JKI VI Package Manager will open.
• Click on Install, under the 2018 icon.
  • Go through the installation process.
    • Allow the S3DK to be connected to both public and private networks when prompted by a Windows pop-up screen
  • If your installation is successful you should see the following window. Click on Finish.
• Click on "Show in Palettes"
  • The following pop-up window should appear
  • This means the S3DK LabVIEW API is now properly installed with LabVIEW.
  • To find the full pallet click on the "up arrow" in the window above:
    • Overall Categories
    • Main Directory
  • To access the S3DK directly from the LabVIEW "palette", in a new LabVIEW VI Block Diagram right click on the blank screen and roll down to the Main Directory ("ALSET Labs"), as shown below:

Testing your Installation

What you will need: If you have access to a PMU or PDC:

• Access to a PMU or a Phasor Data Concentrator streaming data using TCP.
• The IP Configuration for the PMU or PDC, for example:
  • IP address: e.g. 127.0.0.1
  • Port Number: e.g. 4712
  • ID Code: e.g. 1
• Check that your PMU or PDC stream is sending data using PMU Connection Tester

What you will need if you don't have access to a PMU or PDC:

• Download the following PDC Simulator: link
• Unzip and run the PDC simulator. Allow access to both private and public networks.
• Use the default configuration in PDC simulator, or modify it according to your preference:
  • Uncheck the