Three use cases will be discussed:

•    Fault prediction – Improving system reliability is a key task for utility operations and maintenance teams.  New technology is being applied to help utilities anticipate grid anomalies and avoid outages utilizing various data sources. Safegrid’s solution is able to identify incipient and emerging faults based on detection of partial discharge, leakage current and series arcing on the electrical grid.  Multiple case studies highlight the predictive fault location that identifies failing equipment such as insulators, lightning arrestors, breakers and switches.   
•    Fault detection.  The causes of intermittent faults are difficult to determine and faults with high impedance or low current may not be detected by traditional fault detection or protection devices that rely on current detection only.  Safegrid uses high speed sensors and advanced detection algorithms to identify and locate intermittent and hard to find fault events.
•    Fault location.  During any outage, reaction time is critical to isolate a fault and then repair the problem so that power can be restored.  Patrolling lines is time consuming and can pose safety hazards for utility line crews.  Safegrid locates faults on utility grids to within +/- 100 yard accuracy on a map in just seconds. Several fault location case studies will be presented including examples of transformer failures, broken cross arms and insulators, downed conductors and wildlife interactions.