Use of Helmet camera of field engineer Integrated to SCADA for Remote Supervision and Fault Rectification in Distribution Management System (DMS) ? Smart Grids

With the growing need for electricity, the utilities are now towards the transformation of their existing delivery assets to a smart grids and distribution management system has become the key enabler towards this transformation. Distribution Management System includes the two main themes that forms the focus areas of utilities – interoperability and reliability, enabling a decreased customer outage duration. The Fault Location, Isolation & Supply Restoration (FLISR) is the major module of the distribution management system. Any technological advancements in the FLISR module ensures improved effectiveness in the distribution management system. Thus, this paper provides the inclusion in FLISR component where in the helmet camera of the field personnel is integrated with the Distribution Management System that helps in operator in faster fault location and isolation. The solution is broadly around having a wireless camera in built /attached to the safety gear that the field staff /engineer uses while working in the field. The camera connects to the router and transmits that particular data to the network destination. This data can then be viewed through DMS_SCADA by a control room operator. Also, based on requirement mobile supervision access is possible and thus enabling the reliability in distribution service.