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The communication infrastructure (CI) is a significant part of the WAMS that has to be optimally designed and implemented to collect data from PMUs and deliver them to control centers. In this paper, a novel hybrid wireless sensor network is proposed for the connection of PMUs throughout the system to enable convenient and low-cost communication media. The problem of observability in the communication system is checked along with the optimal placement of PMUs in the power system to reach full observability. A hybrid wireless sensor network including plug-in powered sensor nodes (PPSNs) and energy harvesting sensor nodes (EHSNs) is utilized for increasing the reliability of the communication system. In the proposed co-optimal PMU-sensor placement problem, the main objective is to minimize the total cost of PMU placement and the related communication system, considering full observability of the power system and CI. To achieve better results, the zero-injection bus (ZIB) effect and system observability redundancy index (SORI) are considered as a constraint in the objective function. A binary-coded genetic algorithm is used for solving the proposed mixed-objective optimization problem subject to different technical operating constraints. The proposed method is examined on IEEE 13-bus and IEEE 37-bus test feeder systems. The results show the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method compared with the conventional methods in this subject area.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/electronics8101085","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,25]],"date-time":"2019-09-25T03:51:18Z","timestamp":1569383478000},"page":"1085","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Optimal Design of a Wide Area Measurement System Using Hybrid Wireless Sensors and Phasor Measurement Units"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Amir","family":"Bashian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Power Engineering Department, Shahrood University of Technology, 3619995161 Shahrood, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7634-7241","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohsen","family":"Assili","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Power Engineering Department, Shahrood University of Technology, 3619995161 Shahrood, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5505-3252","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amjad","family":"Anvari-Moghaddam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark"}]},{"given":"Jo\u00e3o P. 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