10. Conclusions
A simple and novel technique for high impedance fault detection method has been presented using the current signal with a low sampling rate of 3 KHz. The effectiveness of the proposed detection scheme has been verified on an actual distribution system under different operating conditions and the results show an improved success rate with a detection delay of 30.66 ms. The proposed method may be improved and extended by considering other comparable signals which could be similar to HIF. Also, the fast-growing distributed generations force to improve the proposed work. So, the future goal of this research is to test the proposed scheme under distributed generations, including other kinds of non-HIF events.