Smart Grids: Asset management in primary distribution substations, with smart sensor networks

The system presented here addresses the condition monitoring and diagnosis of critical assets in distribution substations, namely HV and MV automatic circuit breakers, HV disconnect switches, and some variables and devices in power transformers. For this purpose, a highly distributed systems platform is presented here, which, having the capability to integrate a number of deeply embedded devices that pass information among themselves and act as a single system, allow people in charge to intelligently and timely react to both trends and events found in those pieces of equipment under observation and subject to Asset Management criteria.