Systems and methods for monitoring temperature in an electrical panel

An apparatus for monitoring temperature, the apparatus comprising:

• an assembly including:
• a communication cable;
• a body comprising a thermally-insulating material and defining a slot configured to engage a load wire associated with an electrical breaker;
• a wire temperature probe disposed in the slot and configured to sense a temperature of the load wire, the wire temperature probe being connected to the communication cable;
• an ambient temperature probe connected to the communication cable and configured to sense an ambient temperature, wherein the ambient temperature probe is positioned such that the body thermally insulates the ambient temperature probe from the wire temperature probe.

A monitoring system comprising:

• a plurality of assemblies, each of the plurality of assemblies corresponding to one of a plurality of electrical breakers of an electrical panel, each of the plurality of assemblies configured to engage a plurality of load wires connected to the corresponding electrical breaker, each of the plurality of assemblies comprising:
• a communication cable;
• a body defining a plurality of slots respectively configured to engage the plurality of load wires;
• a plurality of wire temperature probes respectively disposed in the plurality of slots and respectively configured to sense temperatures of the plurality of load wires, each of the plurality of wire temperature probes being connected to the communication cable;
• an ambient temperature probe connected to the communication cable and configured to sense an ambient temperature;
• and
• a computing device communicatively coupled to the communication cable of each of the plurality of assemblies, the computing device comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to, for each of the plurality of assemblies:
• receive, via the corresponding communication cable, data indicating the temperatures of the corresponding plurality of load wires and the ambient temperature from the corresponding ambient temperature probe;
• determine, based on the data a condition of the corresponding electrical breaker;
• and
• generate an output indicating the condition of the corresponding electrical breaker.