Experience of mobile web-based condition monitoring technology for partial discharge detection and analysis

The implementation of a condition based monitoring system requires the integration of a variety of hardware and software components. A complete system is composed of a number of functional capabilities such as sensing and data acquisition, data manipulation, health diagnostics and prognostics. In addition there are a broad range of system level requirements that include communication and integration with legacy systems, protection of proprietary data, need for upgradeability, and reduction of engineering time and cost. The successful development of such robust, mobile systems with this level of capability requires significant difficulties to be overcome. This paper presents the architecture employed when designing and developing a PD monitoring system and the experiences learnt during testing.