POWER THEFT DETECTION SYSTEM AND INDICATIONS AT LOCAL SUBSTATIONS

1. INTRODUCTION The Automation of Public Service Sectors is the current trend, which transforms the manpower oriented services to semi-automatic or full automatic Sectors. As the country is opened to globalization, peoples income is rising. And the Busy word is now become essential part of everybodys life. So, governments prefer not only to give quality service but also the corrupt & error free services to his citizens. As a result, this project proposed here is an advanced system, which helps Electricity Boards or Electricity Corporations to handle the Billing system smoothly. This project helps them to give quality service to its customer without any kind of problems. Traditionally, energy monitoring has been done through electromechanical energy meters installed on various feeders and loads. This present system is not to the expected satisfaction of the energy supplying authorities. It has many drawbacks: a) We get only the raw data. b) With available man power, as per the records, it is not possible to prepare error free bills. c) In the existing system, the billing for amount of energy consumed in different areas of given city like Belgaum or Bangalore is difficult. Modern technologies can offer much more elegant and cost effective solution to this need. Recording of energy consumption data through current pulses is simplest and cheapest arrangement.

This project is aimed at developing system for accurate reading and billing from a PC at Main Power Transmission and Maintains Office with data communication through transmission line. This project has following advantages: 1) Accurate meter reading and billing.

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Meter reading can be taken even under the door locked cases. Useful for detecting faulty and non-reading meters. The amount of man power consumption is decreased considerably, and recording of energy meter reading and preparation of bills are simplified [if data is stored in external memory device].

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Motivation for conversation. For detecting tampering and theft of power.

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2. BLOCK DIAGRAM & ITS DESCRIPTION

POWER AUTHORITY SIDE This Power Authority Side section, as name itself implies, is situated at the Power Transmission and Maintains Departments main office.

BUFFER & INTERFACE STAGE: This is gate way of this section, as it provides bidirectional information flow path. The activation signals are going out of the PC and Information packets are coming to the PC through this stage. This stage strengths the received signals and isolate the hardware part from the voltage level sensitive port of PC. As PC accepts only TTL Compatible signal levels, this stage converts every signal to TTL Compatible levels. RF TRANSMITTER: To activate the Consumer Side Section, Radio Frequency signals are used. This old and reliable Radio Communication process uses Very High Frequency Signals to send the Activation Signal effectively. IR RECEIVER: To receive the Information packet, which contains total units consumed by that Consumer, the new and novel Infra Red Technique is used. In IR Communication process data is sent in packets and hence the name Information Packet for the data received. POWER SUPPLY UNIT: This section needs two voltages viz., +12 V & +5 V, as working voltages. Hence specially designed power supply is constructed to get regulated power supplies.

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AUTHORITY SIDE
BUFFER & DRIVER
MICROCONTROLLER

TIMER 1

RF / IR RECEIVER

DE MODULATOR TIMER 2

DRIVER

BUFFER TIMER

RF / IR TRANSMITTER 1

MODULATOR

BASE BAND SIGNAL

CONSUMER SIDE

RF / IR TRANSMITTER 2

MODULATOR

BASE BAND SIGNAL

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