The MICATU Optical Sensor Platform

Gain Insight Into Your Underground Grid

MICATU’s Optical Sensors provide the analytics data needed for the modern grid, all on one plug-and-play platform that’s quick and easy to deploy in any underground environment.

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Underground Sensors

The Underground Optical Sensors capture the full range of measurements: current and voltage, temperature, and current harmonics and voltage harmonics, more accurately and precisely than any traditional solution. In addition to being completely modular, they're safe and fast to deploy to the field.

Connect to the certusEDGE Edge Processing Unit (EPU) or the m410B Optical Signal Processor for real-time access to a wider range of metrics for powerful analytic data today and beyond.

Safe

Because optical technology measures with light, it does not pass dangerous electrons. As a result, MICATU Optical Sensors pose no violent failure or electrocution risks.

Accurate

Even in the most complex environments, MICATU Optical Sensors maintain +/- 0.5% accuracy across the entire measurement range, regardless of applied voltage or current.

Advanced

The injection-molded HCEP housing is lightweight, durable, and non-conductive. The all-optical design keeps the sensor isolated from the current, ensuring high reliability and long life.

Easy Install

A typical three-phase system can be completed in about 3 hours. Voltage sensors are installed on any elbow, while the current ring sensor (model OUG225 only) can slide over either a cable or busbar. Fiber optic cables connect the sensors to the m410B Optical Signal Processor.

Our Products

The MICATU Medium Voltage & Current Sensor System utilizes a 100% “all-optical” measurement platform for unparalleled accuracy and precision of both voltage and current across multiple voltage classes. Installation time for a typical three-phase system is less than three hours, resulting in significant deployment savings. All signals from the sensor are connected via optical fiber connections to a “plug & play” modular bay in the certusEDGE EPU or m410 processor that is fully ruggedized and scalable.

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OUG225

  • Voltage: 4kV to 27kV
  • Nominal Current: 10A to 1500A
  • Weight: 5.4 kg (12 lbs.)

Product Specs

RE120-3

OUG125

  • Voltage: 4kV to 27kV
  • Weight: 4.3 kg (10 lbs.)

Product Specs

Visibility that Saves Time and Money

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"MICATU’s technology allowed us to gain important distribution feeder data at a pace we’ve never been able to achieve. This deployment not only improves our visibility of the grid but saved us valuable time and money."

Electrical Utility Manager of Projects and Programs

Additional Products

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Overhead Sensors

MICATU Overhead Sensors can be installed on overhead lines to precisely measure voltage, current, temperature, power factor, phase angle, total harmonic distortion to a greater level of accuracy than traditional sensors.

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Groundless Sensors

Enclosure mounted sensing with optic technology, non-conductive housing, and a contained grounding e-field, the impossible becomes a reality with measurements as accurate as +/- 0.5%.

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NEXT GENERATION SENSING IN MANAGING ELECTRIC GRIDS

Advanced optical sensors deliver the superior grid awareness necessary to proactively identify and correct issues to prevent outages and maintain power quality levels demanded by your customers.  Learn how in this insightful white paper.

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Looking to transform the way you collect data from the grid? Our experts will help you upgrade your measurement technology for the grid of the future.