Application of RFID to Primary Substation Facility Inspection and Manhole Burying

• Main Authors: Jian- Ming Lin, 林建銘
• Other Authors: 姚立德
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e7xckq

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 電機工程系研究所 === 97 === This thesis focuses on two issues: (1) the application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology at primary substations (P/S) to help with facility maintenance and equipment inspection, (2) the application of RFID technology for the detection of manholes buried underground. Firstly, the large amount of equipment needed to be inspected at primary substations (P/S) is making the reporting procedure more complicated. If the paper-style reporting format is adopted; it not only can bring a lot of inconvenience when an inspection is in progress, but also can make the data difficult to be stored and retrieved later on. With RFID technology, a mobile recorder is designed and built to enable an inspector to record data and upload that data onto a computer server. This new method provides a convenient way for the staff in Taiwan Power Company (TPC) to preserve and analyze the data without having to worry about data insecurity. Secondly, protruded metal covers of manholes lying inappropriately on the streets are increasing the risk of cyclists, motorcycles, or car drivers by causing the surface of the roads to become uneven. For this reason, the government has published its ‘Smooth Road Plan,’ for which the manholes of the main streets are requested not to be exposed on the roads. However, once the manholes are buried underground, it is difficult to find out their exact locations by simple observation. To solve this problem, an RFID device that also has Global Positioning System (GPS) capability is designed and built in this research to enable the positions of these manholes to be found. The function of the GPS is to identify the area that a manhole is located. But to pinpoint the exact location of an object buried underground, we need to use an RFID reader to narrow down the searching boundary. The RFID reader is used to detect the location of an identification name tag in order to find the location of the manhole since the tag and the manhole are buried next to each other.