Computação em nuvem no contexto das <i>smart grids</i>: uma aplicação para auxílio à localização de faltas em sistemas de distribuição

Abstract

SOUSA, Jeovane Vicente de. Cloud Computing in the Smart Grids context: An Application to Aid Fault Location in Distribution Systems. 183 p. Ph.D. Thesis -São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, 2018. Cloud computing has been envisioned as the main technology capable to integrate and manage many systems on a Smart Grid. Thus, this research aims to develop a cloud computing infrastructure to store and manipulate smart distribution system data. By analyzing the infrastructure of the main applications using cloud computing for smart distribution systems, an extensible architecture with essential services was proposed to host smart distribution systems services and applications. Based on this proposition, a cloud computing platform was developed using open source tools. A new application to reduce multiple estimation for fault location in radial distribution systems using datamining techniques over smart meter data was implemented using this infrastructure. An optimized version of the datamining tool known as DAMICORE (Data Mining of Code Repositories) was implemented as an extension to the proposed architecture basic services. The new cloud application was tested using hundreds of fault simulations through a test feeder, being able to reduce the line extensions with multiple estimation by more than 80% in the simulated fault cases. The results show that the proposed cloud computing architecture and infrastructure enable new smart distribution systems applications, contributing to the development of smart grids and diffusion of cloud computing in this context. As an additional contribution, the cloud application developed will help to reduce the multiple estimation for fault locations in distribution systems.