This repository contains the publications on the topic of synchro-waveforms, created my Dr. Milad Izadi. It is freely accessible to the public and contains a wide range of research outputs, including US patents, journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, white papers, conference papers, and other original scholarly works.
Synchro-waveforms (also knowns as time-synchronized waveform measurements or synchronized point-on-wave) are a powerful new technology for monitoring and situational awareness of power systems. They are obtained from a new class of smart grid sensors called Waveform Measurement Units (WMUs). WMUs provide precise time-synchronized voltage waveform and current waveform measurements in the time domain. This allows for detailed analysis of the waveshape of the voltage and current at very high resolutions.
WMUs operate at very high reporting rates, such as at 256 samples per cycle, i.e., 15,360 recordings per second. This is much higher than the reporting rate of practically every other smart grid sensors. At such high reporting rate, a WMU reports 7,962,624,000 data points per day from voltage and current waveforms on three phases. This is an overwhelming amount of data that requires high performance computing to analyze. Further, WMUs use a Global Positioning System (GPS) clock to precisely synchronize the sampling of waveforms across different WMUs, enabling precise time synchronization of the reported waveforms. The very high reporting rate of WMUs and the fact that we have access to synchro-waveform measurements, can significantly enhance our understanding and awareness about the status of the power electric grid and its components.
Synchro-waveforms offer groundbreaking applications in a variety of power system monitoring and situational awareness tasks, including:
- Event detection and classification
- Event location identification
- Topology identification
- Network parameter estimation
- Asset monitoring
- Incipient fault detection
- Wildfire monitoring
This repository contains a variety of resources related to synchro-waveforms, including:
- US Patents
- Journal Papers
- Book Chapters
- Dissertations
- Conference Papers
- White Papers
- Presentations
- Talks
This repository is intended to serve as a resource for researchers and practitioners who are interested in learning more about synchro-waveforms and their applications.
My name is Milad Izadi, and I have started the new topic of Synchro-Waveforms in 2019. Since then, I have made pioneering contributions towards using synchro-waveform measurements in power systems applications. I have eight (8) publications (all first-authored) in this specific topic, including 1 patent, 3 journal papers, 1 book chapter, and 3 conference papers, along with a number of presentations and invited talks. I have now created this repository as a public resource for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry who are interested in learning more about synchro-waveforms and their applications. I have also created a website dedicated to synchro-waveforms, available at www.synchrowaveforms.com. I also earned my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Power Systems in 2022. I am interested in the intersection of data analysis, machine learning, optimization, and simulation in power systems applications. I have also managed and performed interconnection technical studies such as power flow, transient stability, and short circuit studies for load and generation connections into the PJM, ERCOT, WECC power grids. I have collaborated with independent system operators, utilities, national labs, and industrial companies such as PJM, ERCOT, LADWP, PG&E, LBNL, LLNL, NextEra Energy, Sentient Energy, and GridBright on several cutting-edge projects.
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