CERtuS

CERtuS is a project involving Municipalities, energy service companies and financing entities from all economically stricken Southern European countries. It aims to facilitate EU Directives for increasing the number of nearly zero-energy buildings in the public sector. Many of the municipal buildings in Southern Europe require deep renovations to become nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) in the upcoming years. The objective of CERtuS is to stimulate the growth of this energy service sector and to help stakeholders gain confidence in such investments. CERtuS shall develop representative deep renovation projects and innovative financing schemes that will act as models for replication. Dissemination actions shall target municipalities, ESCOs and financing entities in all Southern European Member States.This project have developed an autonomous integrated inspection system to be installed in substations, including thermal and corona inspection, as well as intrusion detection. The thermography sub-system monitors in real time in the substation environment using infrared cameras installed in pan and tilt units. The corona discharge detection sub-systems is based on an ultrasonic detector, able to capture the ultrasound emitted by a corona discharge and measure in real time the existence and evolution of the corona defect on the installed equipment. Depending on the signal emitted by the corona discharge, the software classifies its severity. The surveillance sub-system is able to perform intelligent motion and intrusion detection, being able to tracking the substation area with the implementation of virtual barriers and trigger an alarm notification depending on the detected intrusion. Moreover, there is the capability of tracking the intruding body in the image element and between several cameras. When an abnormal condition is detected, a specific alarm is triggered for the appropriate maintenance procedure to be performed.