Zigbee Enabled Remote Temperature Monitor System for High-Voltage Substations

In high-voltage substations, poor contacts at the junctions of contacts can generate heat leading to high temperature, arc and fire disaster in serious condition. In this paper, we present a remote temperature monitor system to monitor and alarm when temperature of the contacts increases. The system measures temperature by sensor node based on low power consuming temperature sensor and Zigbee communication because power consuming becomes a critical fact constrained by long term running and inconvenient maintenance of high-voltage substations. In the system, sensor nodes are deployed on the contacts to be measured, cluster headers in charge of collecting data from sensor nodes are deployed on each distributor and cluster headers are connected with mast monitor computer via RS485 network. This paper presents design, implementation and test of sensor nodes, cluster headers and the master monitor software.