The most important thing I see is some kind of hardware that can first pick the common issues you've highlighted elsewhere: Blackouts, brown outs, spikes, duration, location/coordinates,etc. Stuff that are directly consumer affecting. From there, It may start non-realtime then further interest will be built on that. Although via SCADA, KPLC can locate major issues on the main grids, beyond that i.e. last mile, they have a real problem. I spent a long time directing Kenya Power technicians to a faulty transformer in my neighbourhood. Most of the last mile issues depend on customer feedback rather than automation. This is where we'll come in, in due course. So lets start small first: hardware required such as the tweetawatt thingy. ./bernard On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:38 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Rad, @Agosta, thnks much. I promise to make good on my word about meeting up with yourselves and celebrating some success of any projects. For the time being and until we have achieved our goals on the design, let it be as it is now. I toast to you online that, despite a very hectic schedule this year, I'm very commited to getting projects off the ground. :-))
@Bernard, many thanks for those links. I'll go through them to see where I left out. Actually most of my thoughts on the online monitoring of grid is based on a self understanding that we must do it and create our own standards and goals. Within these, all the parameters are automatic e.g. from how deep we can go. Lets assume that at some point KPLC allow us to design an active monitoring system linked to transformers, low and high voltage lines, we can create a complete grid monitoring system that will be very uselful to KPLC from Mulika Mwizi to maintenance alerts. This data will be real time but closed due to security reasons. It is very possible, even hardware devices that monitor these. From an electronics point of view, this is not too difficult as we can build on power sensing chips and the info relayed via 3g or GSM. For example, how can we create a standard for smart monitoring so that not only is it online but KPLC is also able to get involved and cross match its own data so that the results are verified. Some thots, and thanks again for sharing the links. :-)
Rgds.
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