INTELLIGENT RELAY PROTECTION
Currently, with the introduction of electrical smart grids, one of the main problems is increasing the authenticity of turning on the relay protection devices during emergency modes. This is due to the fact that the short circuit current, and therefore setpoint, is affected by large number of external factors, such as the humidity of the earth and the atmosphere, external environment temperature, soil state, terrain, etc. Therefore, the relay protection devices must to take account of the influence of these factors and to introduce automatic correction for the setpoint current, i.e. the device must be intelligent. For solution this problem, the intelligent device was developed, containing a microprocessor and a set of sensors of physical quantities of external factors. A more accurate calculation of the relay protection parameters will allow to increase a sensitivity and to avoid the failures of turning on or false turning on of protection. The results of the research can be applied to create a multidimensional mathematical model allowing automatic to select the relay protection settings based of the initial data on weather conditions, time of year, resistance of the soil, current, voltage, etc.