Tyco Electronics UK Ltd

Tyco Electronics Raychem Gmbh

Tyco Electronics Corporation

Te Connectivity Ireland Limited

Bengt A Johnnerfelt

Ladislaus Kehl

Jonathan Roberts

Brendan Normoyle

Kwong Tong

A method of remotely monitoring a status of a surge arrester disconnector includes providing a long-range wireless mesh communication system including a plurality of disconnectors organized in a plurality of clusters. Each cluster includes a plurality of disconnectors that are physically located within a same cluster area. At least one of the disconnectors in each cluster is coupled to a communication device of a predetermined communication range. The method includes transmitting, from a first cluster, a status signal indicative of a status of a first disconnector in the first cluster to a second cluster located within the predetermined communication range, and consecutively transmitting the status signal from the second cluster to a third cluster within the predetermined communication range, until reaching an end cluster. The method includes transmitting, from the end cluster, the status signal to a monitoring station, and monitoring the status of the first disconnector at the monitoring station based on a result of transmission of the status signal.

Method for remotely monitoring failed surge arrester disconnectors and energy harvester for autonomous power supply of monitoring devices installed on surge arresters

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Rottingdean, United Kingdom

Bengt A Johnnerfelt