(1888PressRelease)
October 23, 2006 - October 23, 2006 Melbourne Australia; Telepathx Ltd announced today that it has successfully developed a revolutionary low cost wireless (RFID) radio frequency identification fault sensor and Urban RFID Mesh Network that will be used to monitor and locate electrical faults on overhead power lines and apparatus faster and more efficiently then ever before.
The tiny bottle cap sized sensor called Pinpoint said James Eades company founder and CEO was developed at the request of Victorian energy suppliers early in 2005 on finding a solution to reduce Australia’s chronic pole-fire and aging transformer problems that are an annual source of bushfire ignitions and countless power outages throughout the country.
The development said Eades yielded a high endurance scalable sensor with omnipresent network capabilities, it can detect thermal limit faults on virtually any electrical or mechanical apparatus, then report back precise details such as time, location and very specific asset details instantly to a supervisor over the Telstra / Telepathx GSM Mobile Network.
For Victoria’s energy suppliers, this represents the first full time condition based monitoring tool beyond infrared thermographic imaging available to monitor the millions of the seemingly redundant power poles, cables, insulators, fuses and transformers that form the backbone of the energy network.
Knowing when and where you are having a problem at this detailed level is unprecedented; and the Telepathx system has the capacity to reduce power outages by up to 65% ensuring the quality of power to millions of Australians and consumers worldwide. In Australia if used in saturation levels as proposed in key areas it will reduce power outages from an annual 2.5 to less than 1 billion minutes a year.
What’s truly innovative about the sensors said Eades is that they operate independently and they don’t require power to monitor faults, they do it accurately mechanically, and can do so in for an indefinite period of time. This mechanical actuation allows us to keep a coin size power supply in a suspended state for well over ten years for transmission purposes.
The discovery marks several milestones in remote thermodynamic monitoring; deferred power storage, energy efficiency, endurance and M2M machine to machine networking, said Eades, who later added that ‘the impact would be significant and be far reaching into many industrial and consumer markets’.
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