Overview

Short Circuit & Earth faults in underground cables are the most common cause of power outages in urban power distribution networks. Locating and isolating a fault, while restoring the healthy part of the network as quickly as possible, can significantly reduce outage costs and maintain the quality of supply and safety requirements. Infinite offers innovative solutions for automatic fault management, based on the Aerinos battery powered RTUs combined with ground fault indicators. Line faults can be identified and located in near real time. Fault detection units can be connected to a SCADA using any modern protocol.

Features

• Measure & Detect: Short circuits, earth ground faults, fault direction

• Measure: Voltage RMS, Current RMS, ground fault current

• Measure: Earth Voltage RMS, Current RMS, ground fault current

Benefits

• SAIFI: Reduction in infrastructure investments

• SAIDI & CAIDI: Reduction in maintenance crew costs

• SAIDI & CAIDI: Reduction in the time required to restore power for consumers

• SAIFI: Reduced stress of network elements (cables & switchgear)

• SAIFI: Increased lifetime of switching equipment & cables

• CAIDI: Reduce loss of energy costs

• SAIFI: Reduced number of short circuits required to identify the location of the fault

• Status

  • Commercially Available

• Industries

  • Electric

• Connectivity

  • Mesh Network

  • Cellular

• Available Regions

  • NAM

• Solution Type(s)

  • Distributed Energy Management

  • Distribution Automation

Documentation