23rd IMEKO TC 4 International Symposium and the 5th Chinese Conference on Electromagnetic Metrology Technical (IMEKO TC4 2019)

147 / 2019-03-13 18:11:37

MV Surge Arresters Monitoring Using Drone Technology

surge arrester, drones, UAV, medium voltage, measurement system, leakage current, pole-mounted system, LoRa, predictive maintenance

Plenary track > Automated Test and Measurement Systems

This paper presents a pole-mounted measurements system to detect the leakage current of surge arresters. Such a current is a paramount index to determine the aging of the surge arrester. Moreover, all the measurements acquired by the developed pole- mounted system are collected using drones. This way, in every drone flight a huge amount of data can be gathered from the grid. Hence, improving and fastening the power network monitoring and maintenance.