Design of a concept and a wireless ASIC sensor for locating earth faults in unearthed electrical distribution networks

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1074-1082

  Nordman, Mikael M ^a   Korhonen, Taneli ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Power distribution; Power system communications; Power system modeling; Power system monitoring; Wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SENSORS;

POWER SYSTEM COMMUNICATION; POWER SYSTEM MODELING; POWER SYSTEM MONITORING; WIRELESS SENSORS;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 33745614881     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2006.874637     Document Type: Article

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