An Approach to Remote Condition monitoring of Electrical Machines based on IOT

With the progress and development of national economy, the power system reliability and safety issues of power system is also to be considered important. Predictive maintenance is preferred in many of the systems as it reduces the downtime, increase efficiency and reliability. Condition monitoring is important to identify the fault early in distribution transformer and generator. If any fault occurs in the generator or transformer it may affect the entire process of the generating and distributing system. And it results in unexpected shut down of power supply and expenses. Therefore real-time monitoring of transformer/generator is mandatory for supplying the constant supply to the consumers. IOT based monitoring of transformer and generator system is proposed in this paper, which could monitor the most important parameters such as temperature, current and voltage in transformer & fuel level, oil level, temperature in generator with help of sensors and the information is also updated to server via Wi-Fi module. If Any abnormal conditions is detected it will automatically result in tripping off of the system and the information is send to the server via Wi-Fi. Therefore remote condition monitoring protection becomes possible with the proposed technology.