1 Abstract -This article presents a software development toolkit for Wide Area Monitoring Systems. By using this development toolkit, a researcher is able to manipulate synchrophasor data in the LabView environment, which enables fast software prototyping and testing. This toolkit makes full scale testing in real-time easier for researchers, liberating them of complex and time consuming synchrophasor data handling. The toolkit exploits the IEEE C37.118.2 -2011 protocol making it independent of any specific equipment and their manufacturers. An application of the development kit is demonstrated in a laboratory environment with a specially designed experimental setup composed of a real-time digital simulator and four phasor measurement units (PMUs).

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Abstract-Spectral analysis applied to synchrophasor data can provide valuable information about lightly damped lowfrequency modes in power systems. This paper demonstrates application of two non-parametric spectral estimators focusing on mode frequency estimation. The first one is the well-known Welch spectral estimator whereas the application of Multitaper method is proposed here. In addition, the paper discusses mode estimator tuning procedures and the estimators' performances in the presence of "forced" oscillations. The validity of the proposed application of the non-parametric estimators and tuning procedures is verified through both simulated data and PMU data originating from the high-voltage grid of the Nordic power system. Special attention is given to the analysis of the behaviour of different low frequency modes present in the Nordic grid, including that of forced oscillations.

The authors acknowledge support of the Bavarian Government and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under project number 350746631.

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