Performance of today‘s intelligent controllers and meters, elements of an integrated monitoring system for ADA

Nowadays, several manufacturers offer intelligent electronic devices (IED) or intelligent controllers to improve network performance. On the other hand, several reports are produced to define how the intelligent distribution system should look. Hydro-Quebec already proposed that the intelligent distribution network should include: network monitoring equipment monitoring, product monitoring In order to achieve these goals, the actual distribution system infrastructure (especially remotely controlled IED) shall be used to gather as much information as possible related to network, equipment and product (i.e. power quality) to improve the distribution system overall performance. Hydro-Quebec is conducting several projects to qualify and quantify the type of data that can be gathered from major distribution equipment. This paper reports some of the results and conclusions of those projects.