IoT-Based Degradation Management for Self-Healing Power Converters

In high power applications, medium voltage (MV) power converters have proven to be the best solution for dealing with large amounts of energy, reducing power losses and decreasing costs. The importance of such equipment has placed its service continuity as the most relevant concern for researchers and engineers. In this work an IoT scheme is proposed to remotely manage the remaining useful life of IGBT power modules based on their failure precursors. The proposed structure was designed to permit remote and automatic actuation in the power converter according to the degradation levels of its power devices.