University of Cape Town

Jason Andrew Hardy

Edward Sidney Boje

A sensor for monitoring utility poles includes a sensing module to detect a physical quantity from a utility pole or a conductor supported by a utility pole to which the sensor is attached in use. A power supply supplies power to the device and a memory for storing sensor data. A communications module is used for transmitting and receiving sensor data to and from one or more sensors which are attached to other utility poles located adjacent to or nearby the utility pole. A processor uses the detected sensor data together with received sensor data to calculate if the utility pole to which the sensor is attached has changed its physical condition, and wherein if the processor calculates that the utility pole to which the sensor is attached has changed its physical condition, a message is transmitted via the communications module to a remote server.

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Rondebosch, South Africa

Jason Andrew Hardy