The paper concerns the problem of power system signals compression with possible application in system monitoring and control. The proposed compression algorithm for power system signals ensures effi cient use of available storage memory or communication channel bandwidth. It is shown that while preserving good quality, compression ratios from 20 in case of highly distorted waveforms to 340 for slightly distorted sinusoidal waves can be achieved. The presented results were evaluated with a specially prepared representative database of fi eld- recorded electric signals.
For signal decorrelation lifting implementation of wavelet transform in the compression algorithm was used. The infl uence of sampling frequency, length of data frame, type of wavelet function, number of wavelet decomposition stages and quantization level on the compression ratio and compression quality was investigated
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