Method and system for reporting faults and control in an electrical power grid

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9866012
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14701409

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A system and method for reporting and control in an electrical power distribution grid including a plurality of sensor devices forming a sensor network are disclosed. Each sensor device monitors and measures attributes of line current for an associated electrical power distribution line at a selected location. Control sensor devices will have control capabilities in addition to its monitoring and measurement capabilities. The sensor devices can detect a fault in a branch of the power grid and send control and fault detected messages to an adjacent upstream sensor on a wireless network comprising a plurality of contention access and contention free time slots wherein a number of the contention free time slots is equal to or greater than a number of sensors in the plurality of sensors.

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  • MAPLE MICROSYSTEMS INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Goharis, Peter Ottawa, CA 3 14
Hosny, Mohamed Samy Ottawa, CA 4 17

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