Electricity Today T&D Magazine

By Leon White and Traci Hopkins, H2scan Corporation

As distributed generation, electric vehicle load, and requirements for increased electricity reliability provide real-world challenges for electric utilities, asset managers must innovate to ensure their infrastructure is in good condition to deliver safe, reliable, and uninterrupted power to customers.

Distribution systems have been designed to transfer power from large remote generators to customers via radial distribution networks.  This paper will discuss the progress that is being made in using new internet of things (IoT) innovations to provide real-time data from distribution assets so operators can understand the real-time health of their distribution equipment.

The primary purpose of an electricity distribution system is to provide reliable and low-cost power to the end user upon demand. In recent years, this has become an ever-increasing challenge for asset managers as the demand for power has increased and the loads and stress placed on transformers and...