Safeguard your power infrastructure with TruGem’s advanced Power Beidou Tower & Pole Tilt Monitoring Solution. Our solution delivers high-precision positioning and real-time condition analysis to identify risks before they escalate. Reduce maintenance costs while ensuring uninterrupted power supply.
Background
Power towers are important components of overhead transmission used to support transmission lines. When the base settles due to long-term influence of external conditions such as wind and rain, problems such as tilting and deformation are likely to occur. Therefore, it is an important measure to ensure the normal transmission of power and the safe and stable operation of power to do a good job in daily monitoring of the tilt of the tower.
Challenges with Traditional Power Tower Monitoring and Maintenance
How to monitor the “health status” of power towers in the past? Previously, tower measurement demanded strict requirements and had to be done manually using a theodolite on cloudy days or when the sun did not shine on the tower and the wind speed was less than level 2. The staff must first use a theodolite to measure the angles between multiple points on the tower and the ground before they can calculate the vertical deviation of the tower and obtain the tower inclination data.
In order to timely grasp the degree of inclination of the tower, the staff needs to carry out tower measurement work once a quarter, with an average of 3 people dispatched and 30 days of work. This method is not only susceptible to bad weather, but also has high operation and maintenance costs and low measurement accuracy.
Solution
TruGem’s Power Beidou Tower & Pole Tilt Monitoring Solution includes Transmission line Beidou tower & pole tilt monitoring device, micro-power wireless sensors (water immersion, temperature and humidity, micro-meteorology, etc.) and TruGem tower monitoring platform.
Water Immersion
Among them, the Transmission line Beidou tower & pole tilt monitoring device is an integrated monitoring terminal that integrates Beidou RTK high-precision positioning, six-axis gyroscope, long-distance 4G/5G wireless communication, local micro-power wireless transmission, secure encrypted intranet communication, solar power supply and other multi-functions. It can be installed by hanging on the power tower like transmission tower and communication base station tower.
Transmission line Beidou tower & pole tilt monitoring device
The Transmission line Beidou tower & pole tilt monitoring device adopts Centimeter-level RTK Beidou positioning technology. It obtains the horizontal and vertical deviations of the tower body through RTK high-precision positioning data and gyroscope data. Integrates local micro-power wireless transmission to collect water immersion data and environmental data of the tower base and transmit them to the power intranet.
The tower monitoring platform is responsible for analyzing and issuing early warnings on the monitoring data. Realizing centimeter-level real-time monitoring of towers(power base communication base station tower, transmission tower and others), offset calculation, and offset trend analysis. When the monitoring data exceeds the tower tilt threshold, an early warning is issued to help operation and maintenance personnel to promptly understand the operating status of the tower. At the same time, the platform uses big data analysis technology to predict the tilt trend of the tower one month in advance based on historical data, helping staff to promptly understand the condition of the tower.
Benefits
Compared with traditional power tower monitoring methods, the TruGem Power Beidou Tower Monitoring Solution based on power Beidou high-precision positioning effectively solves the problems of high cost and low accuracy of traditional manual monitoring and complex substation operation and maintenance procedures.
