POWER THEFT MONITORING WIRELESSLY

VIKASH KUMAR VINEET KUMAR SANDEEP KUMAR SAHIL KUMAR

ABSTRACT: Electricity is the most unavoidable According to an outlook 2015 study by Northeast
resource of today’s human life. With the increasing group, LLC, the world losses contribute US$89.3
demand, Power theft is also increasing day by day billion, comprising US$58.7 billion due to power
due to no monitoring devices embedded in the theft. [1] The percentage of power theft worldwide
system. is shown in Fig.1.
The motive of this paper is to design a
system in order to attain the maximum or nearly
equal payback of the energy utilized by the
consumers with respect to the supply, therefore
leading to the implementation of latest trends and
research in the field of power system. This will
further lead to the improvement in economy of the
country.
The installation of this system will save a lot
of power, and the people who are not in domain of
attaining electricity can be fed easily in the highly Fig.1 percentage of losses in world in 2015.
populated region.

The theft in our country is one of the major cause of

Key Words: Power Theft, Monitoring,
I.INTRODUCTION
Power Theft is the act of stealing electrical power. It
is the use of electrical power without having an
authority from the electricity board of the region by
complete or semi bypassing of the metering system
in such a way so as to blend its measurements.
Power Theft is the main and foremost problem
today, causing a huge loss to the electricity boards.
And to cover these losses, usually a hike in prices
takes place.
Different ways of Power theft are:-
 Tapping from line directly
 By inserting a strong magnet in front of the
disc in energy meter
 Bypassing the energy meter, via connecting
the load directly to line.
depletion in economy. According to data US$10.64
billion is lost due to power theft in INDIA, which is
highest worldwide. If not for these losses, INDIA
could have built two power plant of capacity
4,000MW every year[3].
This project will provide an overview of
Wireless sensor Network for Power Management,
including capital saving as well as theft indicator
cum prevention system.
II.MARKET SURVEY
These type of system are not available in the
market, but there are manual system that exist.
Availability of microcontroller based system in
market will take time, as it is only a prototype
system. Since the microcontroller, wireless network
systems is a challenging and growing field. To
overcome the challenges, we will have to acquaint
with the programmable aspect of microcontroller.
Generally the programming, a strange way to
communicate with controllers can be easily done in
the form of mnemonics. This project, at a fast pace
and accurately can be developed with the help of
language of microcontrollers & with themselves.
III.PROPOSED METHOD
In this project, the system identifies where the
power is being theft and it further informs the
electricity board with the help of a buzzer and house
number is indicated using LED.
The microcontroller records and compares
the reading of incoming and consumed power
continuously, if two values are not same, this
implies that there is theft and it activates the relay
circuit which is interfaced with microcontroller, is
used to trip the supply on sensing theft. When the
theft takes place, RF transmitter sends the signal
which is received by RF receiver at the substation
and the buzzer starts beeping, and LED indicates the
house number where the power is being theft.
IV.WORKING
In this proposed system the different circuitry
elements i.e. an energy metering circuit, RF
communication circuit, current sensing circuit and a
contactor to make or break a power line is
interfaced with a micro-controller. Micro-controller
reads energy pulses and current signals, if current is
Fig.2 Block Diagram of the proposed work
drawn and energy pulses are normal, it means there
is no power theft & if current is being drawn but
there are no energy pulses then this implies that
there is power theft undergoing. During the
condition of theft, micro-controller is programmed
such that it sends signal to relay circuit to trip the
supply.[4]
There are two parts:- link method facility
and the remote method facility. Link method facility
consist of a RF receiver, buzzer, LED and 8051
microcontroller. The RF module is serially connected
with the microcontroller, which is the
communication link between user and provider.
Special coding is embedded in controller in the form
of assembly language format. The programming
makes use of RF signal in order to pass the command
to the buzzer and LED indicator circuitry.
Remote method facility consist of meter pulse
sensor, current pulse sensor, RF transmitter, LCD,
relay driver and ATMEGA16 microcontroller. LCD is
interfaced using parallel port connection of
microcontroller. The microcontroller continuously
records the reading of live meter and current pulses
and displays it on the LCD. If the current is drawn
and there are no energy pulses then microcontroller
sends a tripping signal to the relay driver through
the special programming embedded in BASCOM.
Both the microcontroller in this proposed
system works at 12V, which is provided by a step
down transformer.
 V.CONCLUSION
This paper defines the different means of power
theft, and the negative effect of theft taking place in
the country. The survey clearly defines that the
deduction of theft will lead to rise in the economy of
the country. This paper illustrates the development
and working of the proposed project.
This system will help in effectively curb the power
theft by detecting that where it is taking place. The
ability to send the detail via RF communication link
will prove effective in controlling the supply by the
electricity board.
Thus by mentioned design we can successfully and
effectively address the problems related to power
theft by the consumers, in automatic, wireless,
reliable way.

VI.REFERENCES
[1]. www.northeast-group.com
[2]. http://www.Collegeprojects.com/mode of
theft of electricity.
[3]. “India struggles with power theft,” Business
News, BBC, [Online]
[4] http://www.ijarcsse.com/working of project
and proposed method.

VII. AUTHORS PROFILLE

[1]. VIKASH KUMAR- +9189051535630

vikashkumar.vkd002@gmail.com
[2]. VINEET KUMAR- +918950288619
vineetrohilla025@gmail.com
[3]. SANDEEP KUMAR- +917404308295
sandeepsaini883@gmail.com
[4]. SAHIL KUMAR- +918950159896
sahilkumar2047@gmail.com