DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF POWER THEFT DETECTION IN AUTOMATIC METER READING USING POWER LINE COMMUNICATION

Power theft is a serious concern for public, for utility company and for government. Power theft detection is hard to detect using conventional protection methods, so an advanced protection scheme must be developed to manage the issue. An effective protection plan against power theft needs to effectively face the issues of detection and identification simultaneously. In this scheme of power theft detection, unapproved tapping on distribution lines are detected. However, present systems are not able to detect unapproved tapping on distribution lines. But in this system, it is able to recognize which distribution line has tapping. An execution area of this power theft detection system is a distribution network. In this work, wireless data communication technique is used. With this wireless technique, it gives a wireless meter reading, which is also useful for power theft detection