Detecting electrical arcing in household electrical wiring
AssigneeItron, Inc.
InventorsVladimir BORISOV, Matthieu PICHOT
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Abstract
Techniques for detecting electrical arcing in an electrical system include receiving, by a network device, first voltage or current readings associated with a first site; receiving, by the network device, second voltage or current readings associated with a second site; determining, by the network device, whether an electrical arcing condition is associated with the first site or the second site by comparing the first voltage or current readings with the second voltage or current readings; and performing, by the network device, a remedial operation in response to determining that the electrical arcing condition is associated with the first site.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a network device, first voltage or current readings associated with a first site;
- receiving, by the network device, second voltage or current readings associated with a second site;
- determining, by the network device, whether an electrical arcing condition is associated with the first site or the second site by comparing the first voltage or current readings with the second voltage or current readings;
- and
- performing, by the network device, a remedial operation in response to determining that the electrical arcing condition is associated with the first site.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving first voltage or current values associated with a first location;
- receiving second voltage or current values associated with a second location;
- determining whether an electrical arcing condition is occurring at the first location or is occurring at the second location by analyzing the first voltage or current values and the second voltage or current values;
- and
- performing one or more remedial actions in response to determining that the electrical arcing condition is occurring at the first location.
A utility monitoring device, comprising:
- one or more processors, and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving first voltage or current measurements of a first power line at a first site;
- receiving second voltage or current measurements of a second power line at a second site;
- determining, based on a comparison of the first voltage or current measurements with the second voltage or current measurements, whether electrical arcing is occurring in a first electrical circuit powered by the first power line or electrical arcing is occurring in a second electrical circuit powered by the second power line;
- and
- performing a remedial action in response to determining that there is electrical arcing occurring in the first electrical circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.