A.S.B Wijerathna

Work place: Department of Planning and Development, Ceylon Electricity Board, Gampaha, Sri Lanka

E-mail: anuranjithasl@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Energy Engineering, Engineering

Biography

ASB Wijerathna obtained his HND in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 2010 from the Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education (SLIATE), affiliated with BTEC-UK. He received BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree from University of Bolton UK, in 2022. From 2010-2014 he worked as a Test Engineer at the variosystems (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka. Currently he works as an Electrical Superintendent at Ceylon Electricity Board, Sri Lanka. His current research interest includes IoT Applications, Smart grids, Energy harvesting, and Renewable Energy.

Author Articles
NB-IoT based Status Measurement System for 33kV Power Distribution Networks in Smart Grids

By M.W.P Maduranga A.S.B Wijerathna

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2022.04.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2022

In the recent decade, there has been a lot of focus on developing intelligent systems and appliances to suit the century's needs and make life easier. During the same period, the electric power industry introduced Smart-Grid, a crucial innovation to meet today's electric supply-demand and effectively use electric resources. The smart grid is an aspect of the electricity industry's evolution and reformation. An electrical power grid is a complex system consisting of generation, transmission, distribution, storage, and utilization. Coordinating these systems further increases the complexity of this interconnection of systems. The existing power distribution system available in the industry consists of monitoring equipment such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition(SCADA) to monitor some network parts. However, there's no automated way of monitoring power outages or load current flow in some sub-sections of the distribution line. Physical inspection is not convenient as it's more time-consuming.Moreover, these sub-sections may have up to ten distribution transformers or even could be more. In this work, A novel IoT-based power line monitoring system has been introduced to overcome those issues. Narrow Band Internet of Things(NB-IoT)  is used in this system as the primary wireless technology. A current sensor measures electrical line currents, and sensor values are pushed to a remote IoT cloud. Implemented system tested in several 33kV power lines and result and performances of the system is presented. 

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