MV Surge Arresters Monitoring Using Drone Technology

Diego Cavaliere, Alessandro Mingotti, Gaetano Pasini, Lorenzo Peretto, Roberto Tinarelli

Abstract

This paper presents a pole-mounted measurement 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.

Keywords

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

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TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities

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