Electric Network Innovation by Digital Grid

—Controller Development—with Graphical System Development Platform—

Abstract

Achieving digital grid requires controllers that can control electrical power and the information tagged to the electricity. The controller is called “Digital Grid Router (DGR)”. DGR combines analog circuit and digital controller in a system, and in its prototyping, it needs to respond to various specification changes promptly. In this chapter, the attempt in prototyping the DGR and the platform used for that attempt (system design software NI LabVIEW and NI Single-Board hardware) will be discussed.