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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2011
Applicant:
Jeffrey M Drazan, Woodside, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey M Drazan, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method includes inductively coupling an electrical sensor to a transmission line associated with a node of an electrical network, and capturing power transmission information associated with the node through the electrical sensor. The method also includes communicating, through an electrical sensing device including the electrical sensor, information associated with a location of a power outage and/or a sub-optimal performance in the node to a processing node and/or a central control node associated with the electrical network.