H - Electricity – 02 – J
Patent
H - Electricity
02
J
H02J 13/00 (2006.01) H04B 7/24 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2148146
A method and apparatus for the maintenance of Power Transmission Infrastructure is disclosed. Power Transmission Infrastructure embodies all physical elements employed directly or indirectly in the conveyance of electricity, for example, cables, conductors, insulators, tower structures, poles, grounding systems, transformers, switches, and surge arrestors. The apparatus is inventive in that it detects events previously undetected (singularly or as a group). These include leaky arrestor, defective insulator, broken conductor, current faults, sway or galloping cables, corona, transformer degradation, structural integrity of towers and poles. The method is inventive in that the system's data sources and data consumers communicate using a new protocol which minimizes the number of times a data element. is retransmitted. In its unrestricted form, the protocol will propagate data outward from the point of origin to the extremities of the network. A plurality of monitor units are located at different tower structures or other structures throughout a power transmission and distribution system and each monitor unit is capable of transmitting its own identifying signal and data information collected from electromagnetic, sound, vibration, and motion sensors. The monitor units are also capable of relaying information originated by other monitor units. A remote station is provided for receiving and processing the identifying signal and data information.
Mcmullin Roderick Joseph
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