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The main objective of this project is to develop a technology to verify, inspect and predict power lines by measuring ground resistance, rising efficiency in management. To achieve this goal several specific objectives have been carried out, those of which match the main activities of the project:

• Investigate the relation between touch and step voltage and ground resistance.
• Develop an intelligent, distributed, dynamic and self-taught that allows to model, design measure systems and define samples of the electrode to calculate ground resistance.

The realization of this project leads to the achievement part the following objectives associated to the CDTI-EEA GRANTS call for proposals:

• Obtain a new technology to facilitate distributed generation and contribute in a significant way to meet the energetic european laws and indicators in 2020 and 2050.
• Create a new design for ground electrodes, cause of a large number of forest fires, resulting in an increase of combustion, as they cause power outages.
• A great deal of improvement in energetic efficiency in the process, because, with the new technology, it will not be necessary to inject a 50A stream to the ground (by the electrode), used to produce a voltage among the measuring points.
• Reduce of the in-situ services of specialists and teams that require complex transport systems due to the places the lines run that force to create paths or modify the already existent, damaging the environment.

Furthermore, the completion of the project leads to the achievement of the following social-economic objectives:

• Suggest a change in nacional and european laws that will allow to decrease the probability of suffering accidents in electrical infrastructures.
• Predict the risk associated to the verification and inspection progress in power lines, generating recommendations to help energy and home companies to evolve towards a more favorable situation.
• Reduce laboral risks related to the current inspection methods of power lines, as generators will not be utilized.
• Improve life quality of electricity final customers.
• Raise the competitiveness and sustainable management of energy companies, thanks to a more efficient and safer maintenance from a natural and economic point of view.