CASSINI System
The Leading Online Monitoring System for Medium & High Voltage (MV/HV) Grid Asset Health Monitoring and Proactive Fault Alerts
CASSINI System Overview: Multi-Dimensional MV/HV Network Monitoring
The CASSINI System provides permanent online multidimensional sensing capabilities that enable ongoing monitoring and analysis of MV/HV networks.
CASSINI implements a number of sensing modalities for advanced analytics, including data fusion, that provide in-depth network clarity. The system detects, predicts, locates, and alerts to future faults with minimum false alarms, enabling prevention of unexpected outages.
A range of parameters are monitored including 3-phase voltage and current sensing (similar to IEEE 1159, IEC 61000-4-30 Class A — with additional analytics), cable shield current behavior, and partial discharge activity. The system also checks reflectometry and spectral impedance via unique Radio Frequency Analysis (RFA) technology developed in-house by CONINT for localization.
CASSINI integrates with the customer's power network via a high-resolution sensing suite including: (1) voltage inputs via a variety of options such as existing voltage transformers or capacitive tap; (2) current sensing through existing current transformers or Rogowski coils; (3) shield currents, partial discharge, and reflectometry monitoring enabled using the Direct Shield Coupler (DiSC) — the company's proprietary, patent pending, dedicated sensor placed over the shield of the cable.
Benefits
- checkAllows comprehensive online visibility & clarity regarding electrical network health
- checkAlerts to potential network failures with minimum false alarms
- checkEnables thorough understanding of events & implications
- checkHelps to prevent significant damage
- checkIncreases network reliability
- checkReduces fault recovery time
- checkDecreases maintenance expenses
- checkSmall footprint: 15 cm × 21 cm × 5 cm; 0.4 kg
- checkEasy to install and operate
- checkIntegrates with customer systems such as SCADA, DMS, GMS, etc. — or operates as a standalone system
- checkCustomizable configurations available
CASSINI has been deployed across a range of major industrial facilities, renewable energy sites, and residential areas for several years, consistently identifying early indicators of potential failures that conventional monitoring systems failed to detect.