TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiometric Wireless Sensor Network Monitoring of Partial Discharge Sources in Electrical Substations
AU - Zhang, Yong
AU - Upton, David
AU - Jaber, Adel
AU - Ahmed, Hamd
AU - Saeed, Bahghtar
AU - Mather, Peter
AU - Lazaridis, Pavlos
AU - Mopty, Alexandre
AU - Tachtatzis, Christos
AU - Atkinson, Robert
AU - Judd, Martin
AU - Vieira, Maria De Fatima Queiroz
AU - Glover, Ian
PY - 2015/9/17
Y1 - 2015/9/17
N2 - A wireless sensor network (WSN) with the potential to monitor and locate partial discharge (PD) in high-voltage electricity substations using only received signal strength (RSS) is proposed. The advantages of an RSS-based operating principle over more traditional methods (e.g., time-of-arrival and time-difference-of-arrival) are described. Laboratory measurements of PD that emulate the operation of a PD WSN are presented. The hardware architecture of a prototype PD WSN is described and the particular challenges of an RSS-based location approach in an environment with an unknown, and spatially varying, path-loss index are discussed. It is concluded that an RSS-based PD WSN is a plausible solution for the monitoring of insulation integrity in electricity substations.
AB - A wireless sensor network (WSN) with the potential to monitor and locate partial discharge (PD) in high-voltage electricity substations using only received signal strength (RSS) is proposed. The advantages of an RSS-based operating principle over more traditional methods (e.g., time-of-arrival and time-difference-of-arrival) are described. Laboratory measurements of PD that emulate the operation of a PD WSN are presented. The hardware architecture of a prototype PD WSN is described and the particular challenges of an RSS-based location approach in an environment with an unknown, and spatially varying, path-loss index are discussed. It is concluded that an RSS-based PD WSN is a plausible solution for the monitoring of insulation integrity in electricity substations.
KW - Wireless sensor network
KW - electrical substation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942795516&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1155/2015/438302
DO - 10.1155/2015/438302
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84942795516
VL - 2015
JO - International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
JF - International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
SN - 1550-1329
M1 - 438302
ER -