Online Condition Monitoring with Dynamic Cable Rating Pioneered at Medium V oltage Cable System in Switzerland The growth of new renewable energy sources and distributed generation, as well as the rising demand due to new applications like electro mobility will lead to increasing requirements to network capacity. T o meet this demand in Switzerland´s most popular metropolis Zurich, the municipal electric utility, investigated and tested smart grid solutions. The power cable manufacturer and partner for this project Nexans Suisse SA chose the unique frequency domain based Distributed Temperature Sensing LIOS EN.SURE DTS system by NKT Photonics. With more than 2500 permanent installations worldwide, a comprehensive and 100% applied Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) of each DTS unit, as well as

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