MUMBAI, India, Aug. 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202644089698 A) filed by Kit - Kalaignarkarunanidhi Institute Of Technology, Coimbatore - on July 23, 2026, for Smart And Automatic Method Of Fault Detection In Electric Poles (safe).
Inventors include Dr. N. Prakash; Mr. S. Maria Antony; Mr. S. Suryaprakash; Ms. N. Yuvega; Mr. K. Maharandharaj; Dr. R. Gowrishankar; and Dr. B. Senthilkumar.
The application for the patent was published on July 31, 2026, under issue no. 31/2026.
Abstract: The smart and automatic method of fault detection in electric poles (SAFE) is an embedded based monitoring system which helps to achieve better safety, reliability and easy maintenance of the distribution system in case of faults. Here, the ESP8266 based monitoring nodes are embedded in each electric pole to monitor three-phase current of the wire. Each electric pole is given an identification number and every monitoring node is programmed to have a delay based on the pole sequence. All monitoring nodes are always ON to check whether current is flowing or not. In case of any fault, power cut, conductor breakage, phase fault or any other distribution fault, the immediate downstream monitoring node senses the absence of current and sends the fault information through LoRa to the sub-hub. Since priority-based delaying is incorporated, the same downstream node does not send the information again which would have caused congestion in the network, duplication of data, wastage of bandwidth and current. Each sub-hub covers hundred electric poles and it supervises and prioritizes the fault information received from the monitoring nodes so that the main controlling unit can take appropriate action. The main controlling unit then immediately sends the SMS about the pole number, fault status and the time of occurrence to the Electricity Board (EB) officer through a GSM module. As the SMS contains the pole number experiencing the fault, the EB officer could directly reach that pole to check the status instead of randomly searching for the pole experiencing the fault. This has reduced the searching time, downtime, maintenance time, cost of maintenance and overall cost of the system. The monitoring nodes are always ON and ready to respond to any fault. The proposed prototype reduces downtime, cost of maintenance, man power required and increases the reliability of the modern-day smart distribution system by being modular and scalable for long distribution systems by connecting multiple sub-hubs to the main controlling unit. The proposed system provides a smart solution for real-time fault detection, pinpointing of fault location, quick response to the fault, increased efficiency and easy maintaining of the distribution power system.
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