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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