Science centres

Centre for Monitoring and Diagnostics

“Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials,” said Charles Proteus Steinmetz whose research on alternating current was applied in the development of power engineering.

What does the Centre do?

In the Centre for Monitoring and Diagnostics in power engineering, we monitor power system "health", with each component of the system representing an "organ" in the large power "body". Our experts help predict and prevent breakdowns that can lead to interruptions in the production and transmission of electricity. The number of parameters monitored in the power system is growing every day, so it is necessary to develop auxiliary tools based on artificial intelligence that will help experts in the correct and timely diagnosis of the condition of power equipment. Improper diagnostics and monitoring can lead to interruptions of electricity supply and threaten the development of the economy and modern smart grids.

That is why innovations in the improvement of hardware for monitoring power equipment are important, along with the development of algorithms for diagnosing the condition and predictive maintenance of power equipment in transmission and distribution power systems.

Centre Head

Prof. Dr Mileta Žarković

Associate Professor at the Department of Electric Power Systems

Mileta Žarković is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electric Power Systems of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He graduated from the Energy Department, obtained his MSc degree in 2011, and his PhD in 2018. His lectures include high-voltage equipment, computer-aided design in power engineering, high-voltage technology, power system elements, monitoring and diagnostics of high-voltage plants, electrical measurements and the application of artificial intelligence in power engineering. From 2012 to 2017, he was active in the “Električar” Sports Society, and since 2017, he has been the Chair of STC C4 Power System Technical Performance, CIGRE Serbia. He has been the Head of the High-Voltage Laboratory since 2018. He is the author of 21 papers in international scientific journals, as well as numerous papers in the proceedings of international, regional and national conferences, and the author of two collections and one book.

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Ongoing projects

  • Diagnostic centre (database update, equipment monitoring, diagnostics and reporting)
  • Application of modern methods of Fuzzy logic and Data Mining in the diagnostics and maintenance of key electrical equipment (power transformers and generators)
  • Development of algorithms for the detection of electricity theft