Application of Wireless Sensor Network in Busbar Temperature Monitoring System

The temperature of busbar is a significant indicator of its running performance, which may infer some potential defects. In this paper, wireless temperature sensors are used to monitor the temperature of running busbar. Temperature data collected from all the critical parts of busbar are transmitted via multi-hop wireless ad-hoc network until they reach the base-station and processed in the monitoring center. The application provides electrical administrators fairly obvious way to view the whole running status of busbar, and also defect warning, if any. The application was tested and deployed in Daqo busbar testbed. Performance statistics show us that the temperature monitoring system works stable and meets the application requirement.