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Advances in Distribution System Monitoring

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Wide area monitoring system

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Distribution system monitoring refers to key technologies for monitoring wide-area power distribution systems, between the substation and customer meters, to facilitate distribution grid planning and operation.

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Power distribution systems had a simple design historically. With radial topology, one-way power flow, and predictable demand curves, distribution system planners and operators were only required to evaluate the envelope of design conditions, such as peak loads and fault currents, to ensure reliability and power quality. Thus, there has been little need for costly telemetry beyond the substation, which was remotely monitored through supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) at several-second intervals. SCADA is a technology that has been in place for decades to connect sensing and control nodes, mostly in the transmission system, to a control room (Northcote-Green and Wilson, 2006) using dedicated telephone...

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Omid Ardakanian

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

  2. Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada

    Xiaodong Lin

  3. Dpt.of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Omaha, NE, USA

    Kuan Zhang

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Vincent Wong

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Ardakanian, O. (2018). Advances in Distribution System Monitoring. In: Shen, X., Lin, X., Zhang, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32903-1_243-1

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