Leveraging a service oriented architecture for automatic retrieval and processing of fault recordings to obtain information for maintenance of circuit breakers

Sammanfattning: Maintenance of power system components is fundamental to ensure high qualityoperations and avoid malfunctioning. Given the crucial role of the circuitbreakers (CBs) in ensuring quality of the power systems operations, this thesisworks on the implementation of an automatic retrieval and processing offault recordings with the aim compute quantities relevant for maintenance andpreventive maintenance of the CBs. For the scope, a service oriented architecture(SOA) is developed on top of the power system and connected with twoapplications able to automatically retrieve, decode and use fault recordingsto obtain indicators on the health of the CBs. Even if the lack of a commonmetadata for fault recordings does not permit generalizations on the topic, theproject shows that the resulting layered architecture composed of power system,SOA and applications, allows to automatically obtain indicators on thestate of the CBs and consequently to improve maintenance of the analyzedarea of the substation.