Development of Real – Time Monitoring and Identification System of Aging Insulators in the Tropics

The monitoring and identification system is made to monitor leakage currents on aging insulators due to exposure to the external atmosphere. The purpose of this research was monitoring and detection of leakage current as indicators in determining the level of damage to aging insulators to provide information for network maintenance operators in the field. The study used a real-time method by making a distribution line construction design along with its accessories and monitoring tools. Hardware and software were developed to obtain real-time data from aging insulators based on the time domain in tropical conditions. In this paper, the monitoring and identification system has been designed with a good level of security and performance, low power, low cost, and equipped with UV sensors and rainfall sensors. The developed system model with various models and types of aging insulators in real time were monitored using a microcontroller. Then the leakage current (LC) monitoring results will be stored in the microprocessor module in the form of a data logger and can be directly transferred to computers / notebook via wireless communication 915 MHz radio telemetry or GPRS network in real-time controlled by graphical user interface software (GUI) artificial self to display information about the condition of the insulator.