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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2021
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, Pullman, WA (US);
Joe Baylon, Pullman, WA (US);
Timothy M. Minteer, Pullman, WA (US);
David Kenny, Pullman, WA (US);
James Mobley, Moscow, ID (US);
Johnny J. Moore, Moscow, ID (US);
Raymond W. Rice, Pullman, WA (US);
Naiden K. Spasov, Spokane, WA (US);
Eric M. Sawyer, Moscow, ID (US);
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to powering distributed sensors used to monitor electrical and/or environmental conditions and to powering other equipment associated with electric power systems. In one embodiment, a system may be used to mount a sensor in proximity to a reference conductor. An electric field power conversion subsystem may generate a usable electric potential from an electric field created by the electric power system and existing between the reference conductor and another conductor (e.g., another phase conductor, a ground conductor). The sensor powered by the usable electric potential may provide a measurement of a condition associated with the electric power system. A communication subsystem powered by the usable electric potential may communicate the measurement of the condition to a monitoring system.