Making electric distribution of industrial customers smarter with IoT

The paper deals with the availability of key equipment in a customer's electrical distribution system. Sensors installed on key components to measure equipment health parameters can provide real-time alerts for abnormal equipment conditions. To this aim an Internet of Things (IoT) based solution has been implemented that allows equip at low cost the various electrical components of the customer's power system so as to be connected to a central supervising system in order to achieve the early fault forecast of the equipment. The supervising system is superimposed to the main components of the electrical distribution system and is able to promptly signal anomalies or malfunctioning or outages. It is based on Raspberry pi 3 platform that communicates over the internet with a customized app installed on Android mobile. Every supervised equipment is provided with sensors or relays that allow monitoring via a mobile app.