Science News, January 25th, 1992
Monitoring the well-being of their extensive electric power networks presents utilities with a formidable task. Using a limited number of power-level measurements at various points scattered throughout a network, power engineers at a central control facility must have access to sufficient data to pinpoint problems and reach appropriately.
But these elaborate networks, stretching from generating stations to distribution centers, substations and individual factories, businesses and homes, are often so large that engineers sometimes have trouble quickly locating faults, such as overloads or in...
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