Power transformer monitoring device

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Hello all,

I am new to this forum and I have found it a very exciting and resourceful place.

A little background. I am an electrical engineer and I live and work in Nigeria. We have frequent outages in my country and sometimes it takes weeks before the utilities even know the status of a transformer. This results in people being in darkness for weeks and sometimes months. I want to help solve this problem

I am working on a project that involves real-time monitoring of power transformers. The parameters I am interested in are the operating status of the transformer (on/off), temperature of the transformer, the percentage loading of the transformer and sent the results real-time on-line. I am looking at sending it via SIM module(GPRS/EDGE/HSPDA/4G) and I want two sim modules for redundancy.

Can I get any help from this forum?

I look towards having a very engaging and intensive discussion here that will result to an actual physical device.

Thanks.

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Can I get any help from this forum?

Post a question, with the required background information, on a specific topic and perhaps someone can help.

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Well. Sounds technically doable. I would suggest you check with the local telecom providers what their plans are for low power Wan. Lora, sigfox, nb-iot, lte etc. may result in a simpler and cheaper system. And try to find out if they use UPS’s for their base stations. :wink:

Do you have a mains 230v supply available at each transformer?