Enabling the Smart Grid
The OptiSense Electro Optic High Voltage Sensor measures distribution voltages for 15 kV to 69 kV Voltage Classes.
The OptiSense Electro Optic Combination Sensor measures the voltages of the High Voltage Sensor and incorporates continuous and fault current measurement.
The sensors use a patented optical Pockels cell as well as a patent pending Faraday cell within an innovative housing that allows for safe, live line field installations. Smaller and lighter in weight compared to potential transformers, the sensor allows placement in locations where the use of conventional measurement devices is impractical, or impossible.
Features and Benefits
Smaller and lighter in weight
Safer, No galvanic connection
Environmentally clean
Analog or Digital Interface
Immune to electromagnetic interference
Live line field installation
Field calibration not required
Very low power consumption
Easily connected to existing SCADA equipment
Applications
Asset management
Volt/VAR Control/Optimization
Demand Response
Theft Control
Primary metering
Feeder monitoring
Capacitor bank control
Distribution Automation
Go/No-Go control
Substation feeder circuit breakers
Self-healing network systems
Key building block for national power grid security
