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Hey, my name is Kaleb Anderson. I'm here at NIWeek 2013. I'm an applications engineer
at National Instruments. In this demo I created, I'm using a NI CompactDAQ Measurement chassis
to do different C-Series I/O, and what I'm doing is taking a voltage current for this system that I created. There
are different devices right now, we have a Dyson fan, a standard fan, an LED light and
an incandescent light, and we can turn on and off all of those devices in software.
I'm monitoring the total current that's being drawn by these devices, so once we get that
total current and the voltage that the system's operating on, we can do different power measurement
calculations using the electrical power suite in LabVIEW 2013. These are power measurement
functions that have been created in LabVIEW for you to easily use that satisfy all the
IEC and EE industry standard power measurement calculations. So these are fixed algorithms
that the industry put forth and we have wrapped them into functions in LabVIEW that you can
use to customize your own system. So along with these power measurements, I'm also taking
in environmental data, different core measurements such as sound power level, temperature from
a thermocouple, and light intensity from the lights. You can see the different devices
switching on and off and as I turn different ones on and off, we can see some of our power
measurements change. Some of the things I'm calculating are active power, reactive power,
parent power and the power factor, as well as total watt hours for the system as it's
been running and total electricity cost, the magnitude and frequency of the signal, and
a current voltage total harmonic distortion, as well as flicker. These are just a few of
the things that you can do in the electrical power suite. What this is really showing is
that you can customize power quality analysis for whatever your system is. Come check out
the power quality analysis of a Dyson bladeless fan here at NIWeek 2013! Thanks.