A Trigger Method Applied to the Development of Measurement Devices for Radiometric Measurement Systems

Based on the experience of the authors, represented by several published papers about radiometry applied to power circuit-breaker analyses, efforts towards the development of a radiometric measurement device for replacing the commercially available digital oscilloscope are qualitatively described. The main reason for this search for the replacement relies on the fact that the triggering system and principles of commercially available oscilloscopes are not as fully confident as they must be for radiometric systems applied to power circuit-breaker analysis. For implementing this, the very first step is to adopt a new method of data processing, which is presented in this work and is to be combined with a future hardware structure for composing the triggering system of a new radiometric measurement device. The examples given show how effective the new proposal is.