High-voltage switchgear plays a crucial role in modern industrial and electrical systems, used for controlling and safeguarding electrical equipment from overloads, short circuits, and other electrical faults. However, these switchgears generate significant heat during operation, making accurate prediction and timely alerting of abnormal temperature changes essential for preventing equipment overheating and extending its lifespan. To establish an efficient temperature warning system, real-time temperature data from optic fiber temperature sensing system was studied in this work. Initially, multi-type machine learning algorithms including Lasso Regression, Random Forest, AdaBoost, SVM, KNN, and GradientBoost were tested and compared. Experimental results revealed that the Random Forest algorithm performed the best in predicting high-voltage switchgear temperatures. By combining predictions from multiple decision trees, this algorithm effectively captures complex temperature variations, providing highly precise forecasts. Leveraging the predictive capabilities of the Random Forest model, temperature warnings were generated for different time intervals. Experimental findings demonstrate that the Random Forest algorithm could effectively forecast temperature trends for 10 minutes, 2, 4, and 8 hours ahead, thereby enabling timely detection of potential overheating risks and facilitating necessary maintenance measures.
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