Monitoring and optimizing the state of pollution of high voltage insulators using wireless sensor network based convolutional neural network

In this paper, a wireless sensor network (WSN) is combined with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) forming a hybrid framework to detect the pollution state in high voltage insulators. The WSN is formed by the collection of sensor readings from each high voltage insulator over the transmission tower. The collected sensor readings from the sensor network is sent to the processing unit or detection unit, where CNN is used for the purpose of detecting the partial discharged high voltage insulator. The CNN is used with partial discharge diagnosis model to detect the dischargers in high voltage insulators. The extraction of relevant features from the CNN helps to improve the detection. The experimental validation are conducted on the proposed model with collected training datasets and real time testing datasets. The proposed method is compared with existing models to test the partial discharges in high voltage insulators, namely Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy and Ant Colony Optimization. The result shows that the proposed method is effective in detecting the partial discharges than the existing methods in terms of False Acceptance Rate and Missing Detection Rate. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.