Thermal and vibration smart monitoring and outage prevention

A thermal and vibration smart monitoring system for electrical distribution equipment, the electrical distribution equipment including one or more rigid electric load carrying components, the system comprising:

• a plurality of sensors configured to provide sensor data, the sensor data comprising temperature data associated with the one or more rigid electric load carrying components and vibration data indicating a self-induced vibration of the one or more rigid electric load carrying components;
• a diagnostics processor receiving and responsive to the sensor data and to load data, the load data representative of an electrical load of the electrical distribution equipment;
• and
• a memory coupled to the diagnostics processor, the memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed, configure the diagnostics processor for:
• processing the sensor data and the load data as inputs to a trained machine learning model to determine a prediction whether a predefined temperature alarm for the electrical distribution equipment will be exceeded at a subsequent moment in time;
• and
• generating a notification based on the prediction.

An electrical distribution system comprising:

• one or more rigid electric load carrying components configured for supplying power to an electrical load;
• a plurality of sensors configured to provide sensor data, the sensor data comprising temperature data associated with the one or more rigid electric load carrying components and vibration data indicating a self-induced vibration of the one or more rigid electric load carrying components;
• a diagnostics processor receiving and responsive to the sensor data and to load data, the load data representative of the electrical load;
• and
• a memory coupled to the diagnostics processor, the memory storing a machine learned model that, when executed by the diagnostics processor:
• processes the sensor data and the load data as inputs to the machine learned model to determine a prediction whether a predefined temperature alarm for the electrical distribution system will be exceeded at a subsequent moment in time;
• and
• causes a notification to be generated based on the prediction.