Power Metering & Quality

Power Monitoring and Quality Solutions

Ensure efficiency and safety of your custom power metering systems and power quality solutions with our engineering services.

We can cover all your needs, from minor adjustments to end-to-end engineering, including:

The design of power systems for smart solutions, energy storage, substation automation, predictive maintenance, and digital twins.
Calculation of active, reactive, and apparent power.
Analysis of frequency deviation, currents, and voltages.

We’d love to hear about your project!

Roman Shulenkov,
Head of Industrial Automation Unit at Promwad

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Benefit from Our Services

The latest technologies

We partner with leading vendors, such as Infineon, NXP, Texas Instruments, and STMicroelectronics, to enhance your power metering systems with the best technologies on the market.

In-house design laboratory

Our laboratory has advanced equipment, such as high-speed oscilloscopes, signal generators, and spectrum analysers, which enable us to conduct intricate examinations and precise simulations.

Full assistance

At Promwad, we cover all aspects of turnkey design and assemble an engineering team with a tech lead and management. Our clients do not have to involve their in-house specialists or an external integrator.

Power Metering Systems

Accurate power monitoring enables:

Effective resource management,
Identification of inefficiencies,
Reasonable cost allocation.

Electric grid monitoring and real-time energy systems measure parameters such as currents, voltages, power factor, and energy consumption.

We build portable devices and advanced digital, analogue, and intelligent power metering solutions. Digital and smart metres communicate with other devices, collecting and providing real-time data.

Case Studies on Power Monitoring

Three-Phase Power Meter

For a European power sector company, we developed a three-phase power metering solution for data transfer to ASCAPS in IoT and cloud storage via NB-IoT and LoRa standards.

This IoT electricity meter supports single- or bi-directional multi-tariff metering of active and reactive energy and power.

Key features:

Based on the STM32L4 microcontroller with STPM33 and STPM34 analogue frontends
ST7580 chip for PLC data transmission
5A (10A) capacity
Three phases (3x230/400 V)
Electronic display
Class 0.2S accuracy
Installation on mounting panel
Tariff scheduling

Power Quality Analyser

We developed a power quality solution – an analyser – using OpenAMP for the device and Qt for the user interface, data visualisation, logs, and events. The build system utilised the Yocto Project.

Device management business logic was implemented on the Linux side, while the RTOS side handled power quality measurements, with mathematical analysis performed using CMSIS DSP.

Key features:

IEC 61000-4-30 Class A voltage measurement accuracy: ±0.1%
Current measurement accuracy: ±1%
Voltage and current RMS calculation in half-cycle steps
Frequency measurement accuracy: ±10 mHz
150/180-cycle aggregation with no gaps
Synchronised with UTC 10-minute tick
Harmonics measurement up to the 50th order
Time-clock uncertainty: ±1 second per 24 hours
Time synchronisation via GPS, radio timing signals, or network timing signals

ThingsBoard Implementation for Power Grid Monitoring System

We developed a cloud-based electrical grid monitoring tool for a European data centre's server room. Based on ThingsBoard, the solution helps prevent equipment failure, avoid repair costs, and support data-driven decision-making.

Key features:

Custom dashboard visualising real-time energy metrics, including voltage fluctuations and load changes
Alerting mechanism triggering notifications for abnormal power readings or fluctuations exceeding thresholds
Anomaly logging and notifications displayed as a widget on the main dashboard

ThingsBoard Implementation for Power Grid Monitoring System

Tech Stack

Networks

IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-101, IEC 60870-5-102, IEC 60870-5-103, IEC 60870-5-104 | Power line communication: PLC/PLC G3/G3-PLC Hybrid, IEC 62056 (DLMS/COSEM), DLMS/COSEM over LoRaWAN, DNP3, ION, Modbus RTU/ASCII/TP

Vendors

Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, NXP, Microchip, STMicroelectronics, Renesas

Algorithms

Active power and energy wideband and fundamental reactive power and energy, apparent power and energy from RMS data, apparent power vectorial calculation, RMS, period, zero-crossing detection, combined voltage zero-crossing, phase-delay, sag and swell, tamper, digital front end (DFE), phase compensation, decimation, filters, calibration, PQ, angle measurement

Tools & languages

С, C++, Python, Qt, JavaScript, Rust, Verilog, VHDL, HLS, LLVM

Hardware

HSR/PRP

– Texas Instruments: AM335x, AM437x, AM57x, AMIC110, AMIC120
– FPGA: AMD (Xilinx), Intel (Altera), Lattice, GOWIN
– Microchip Technology: KSZ9477, LAN9371, LAN9372, LAN9373
– Arrow Electronics: Flexibilis XRS7003E, Flexibilis XRS7004E

PLC (power line communication)

– STMicroelectronics: ST8500, STCOM, ST7580
– Texas Instruments: AFE031
– Renesas: R9A06G061, R9A06G037

Energy metering ICs

– STMicroelectronics: STPM32, STPMS2, STPM01, STPM1X, STPM33, STPM34, STPMC1
– Analog Devices: ADE9430, ADE7979, ADE9322B, ADE9153A, ADE9153B, ADE9000, ADE9078, ADE7923, ADE7932, ADE7933, ADE7978, ADE7854A, ADE7858A, ADE7868A, ADE7878A, ADE7816, ADE7880, ADE7953, ADE7757A, ADE7751, ADE7755

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Power Quality Solutions

The power quality solutions designed at Promwad for our clients:

Maintain stable voltage levels,
Minimise harmonics,
Mitigate disturbances, such as surges and sags.

Develop custom systems and devices with us to avoid equipment damage, operational disruptions, and increased energy consumption. We build solutions that analyse various criteria, including voltage fluctuations, frequency variations, and waveform distortions.

Case Studies: Designs We Completed for Our Clients

Our Solutions for Power Quality Issues

APF (Active Power Filter)

We created algorithms for APF and implemented them with Xilinx Zynq 7000, achieving exceptional performance and real-time capabilities. These FPGAs were chosen for their optimal combination of cost-efficiency and quality.

The business logic, data visualisation, and device configuration were executed on the Linux platform.

Highlights:

Harmonic detection technique (detection algorithm, response time)
FFT or fast fourier transform algorithm
Control loop of APF
Petalinux for business logic, BSP, DTS, App for Linux user space
Simulation with Matlab/Simulink
HLS, Verilog/VHDL
IEEE519, EN50160, G5/4

Three-Phase Vienna PFC Design

We developed a 3-phase Vienna PFC for high-power switch mode power supply (SMPS) applications. We utilised silicon carbide (SiC) technology and incorporated MOSFETs and Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs). The result is an impressive efficiency of 98.5% at a substantial 30 kW output.

The PCB layout for this PFC design was optimised for safety, current stress, mechanical stress and noise immunity. The developed firmware included current loop control model, DC bus regulation loop, and DC voltage balance controller.

Highlights:

Designed for 30 kW applications
1200V diodes and 700V MOSFETs with high avalanche/repetitive unclamped inductive switching (UIS)
3-phase 380/400V RMS input voltage, 50 Hz or 60 Hz
140 kHz switching frequency
700V DC output voltage
Infineon XMC 4000 for digital control

STATCOM (Static Synchronous Compensator)

We created algorithms for STATCOM and deployed them using the Xilinx Zynq 7020 FPGA. Business logic, data visualisations, and device configuration were executed on Linux utilising Buildroot. Our client used optical lines to control the power electronics.

Key features: