IoT-Based Transmission Tower Monitoring Communications and Visualization Platform

Transmission tower fault monitoring has always been a challenge for power system engineers. Vertical and horizontal displacement monitoring is important for evaluating health status of transmission tower's infrastructures. Quick fault detection can help protect the equipment by allowing the disconnection of transmission tower before any significant damage of the equipment. The purpose of this study is to propose an IoT monitoring system for transmission towers. The monitoring system adheres to Three-Layer IoT architecture. In the perception layer, sensors MPU6050 and Anemometer are used to measure a specific parameter. The data, which includes the Roll, Pitch, Yaw, and wind velocity, is gathered and delivered to the ESP32 through network layer using WiFi, which then stored the information in the cloud using InfluxDB. For visualization purposes in the application layer, Grafana is utilized which is hosted in the web dashboard and the mobile application. Flutter framework is used to develop the mobile application. An alert will be displayed in the mobile application when the threshold of the wind speed exceeds 10m/s.