Monitoring and analysis of power system components

A system, comprising:

• a signal injection system coupled to an electrical component, the signal injection system configured to inject a synchronized pseudo-random sequence (PRS) signal into the electrical component;
• a data capture device configured to obtain raw RF component data radiated from the electrical component through a radio frequency (RF) antenna that is not physically connected to the electrical component, the raw RF component data synchronized with the PRS signal;
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• a data analysis device configured to cross-correlate the raw RF component data with the PRS signal to determine characteristics associated with the electrical component.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, the program comprising:

• code that obtains raw RF component data radiated from a power system component, where the raw RF component data is captured through an RF antenna that is not physically connected to the electrical component and averaged to reduce background noise from other RF sources;
• code that cross-correlates the raw RF component data with a synchronized pseudo-random sequence signal injected into the power system component to determine a correlated impulse response;
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• code that determines a condition of the power system component based at least in part upon the correlated impulse response.