Synchro-Waveforms in Wide-Area Monitoring, Control, and Protection: Real-World Examples and Future Opportunities

The concept of synchro-waveforms has received increasing attention in recent years in the field of power system monitoring, keeping pace with the changes and the challenges in the power systems and smart grids landscape. The sensor device to record synchro-waveforms may be referred to as a waveform measurement unit (WMU). WMUs record time-synchronized waveform measurements of voltage and current at different locations on a power network.