Smart Power Theft Detection System

Abstract

Power theft is normally done by two methods that is bypassing or hooking. So to detect it, a system (current measuring and comparing) is proposed in which the household distribution of current is done indirectly from the electric pole to an intermediate distributor box and then to the individual houses. The current is measured periodically in the distributor box and is posted to the server database for each house using GSM/GPRS module. Similarly, for each house electric meter is designed which can measure the value of the current and post the same to the server database periodically using GSM/GPRS module. At the time of the installation of the electric meter the details of the users are stored in the database through a user friendly mobile application including the address, latitude, longitude using mobile GPS and the photograph of the user's house/area. Upon successful comparison between the current values from distributor box and electric meter in the server if we get a marginal difference between the currents then the theft is detected. Finally, the details of the user are shared with the authorized mobile application including the address and photograph of the area. The latitude and longitude are also used to show the area of theft in Google maps. And hence the required steps are taken. The same process is used for hooking but on the individual electric poles.