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*Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Prognosis*

**3. Conclusions**

generation.

Intelligent monitoring and control systems allow minimize the risks of failure of production systems, as is the case with generation systems (will be taken as a reference for this project), where intelligent systems are widely used, especially in large and top technology plants, and consequently increase its reliability (reduced failure rate/year) and the availability, improving the quality of energy supply by reducing the periods and interruption frequency of power supply, by improving indicators DEC, FEC, DIC, FIC and DMIC, and reliable management charge and distributed

Centralization of information processing by intelligent monitoring systems will improve the efficiency of operation of electrical systems, optimize maintenance processes within the generation plants and consequently increase or maintain the estimated useful life of the generators, economically benefiting utilities power. The transformation of the current systems for monitoring and supervision of hydroelectric plants in intelligent systems, effectively represents a technological advancement over conventional monitoring systems. What defines the quality of the response of these systems, in relation to the supervision and diagnosis, it is the

The data management infrastructure, established by the power utilities, will be responsible for more or less extracted benefit of the system as well as for maintaining the efficient operation of the same. The choice of the best strategy for the Data and Information Management, will depend on the policies adopted by companies to their treatment. The benefits of smart grid technology, in monitoring systems will come when there is a data management policy functional within the utilities should be avoided as much as possible "excess of monitored parameters". Prioritization criteria of failures "detectable" or "observable" must be considered. For each observable failure mode, there will always be a form of detection, which keeps a relationship "sensitivity/installation cost" more, and that in principle,

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Gustavo Pérez Alvarez Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil, South America

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