Implementation of a low cost rural telecontrol and monitoring system

The village of Sevenoaks Weald in Kent lies to the south of the major town of Sevenoaks supplied by a long overhead line feeder. The long feeder has a history of problems and Seeboard was concerned to improve the performance of the supply network for the customers in the village. Air break isolating switches are to be used on the line and the authors look at a prototype communication and control system for them