Infrared Thermal Image Dataset of High Voltage Electrical Power Equipment under Different Operating Conditions

The dataset contains 5 categories of high voltages equipment common to most air-insulated electrical power substation at 132kV level, namely: circuit breakers, power transformers, surge arresters, disconnectors, and wave traps. The number of IR images for each class of equipment are: circuit breakers 203, power transformers 178, surge arresters 181, disconnectors 180, and wave traps 153. The IR images are 640 x 480 pixel RGB images captured using the rainbow color palette and properly segmented in labeled folders.

The color bar in each IR image identifies the thermal range used during its acquisition. The dataset can be used for implementing novel research in computer vision based deep learning models, especially in object recognition, identification, fault classification or detection algorithms. The thermal profile of the equipment in the dataset could be applied for detection of hotspots and other related anomalies.