Hybrid P2P communication system for fault location on ring main distribution system

Faults on electrical transmission lines cause debits in terms of penalties to the utilities. The protection system, takes care of transient faults promptly; but in case of permanent fault events, more intelligent communication system is required. A communication infrastructure is a part and parcel of the smart grid. Client Server, Peer to Peer (P2P) and hybrid P2P communication application for locating a fault is demonstrated in this paper. Java code for pipelining and transferring the data from numeric meter (Server) to numeric relay (Client) is given.