CONTROLLING OF POWER THEFT AND REVENUE LOSSES BY USING WIRELESS TECHNIQUES

Abstract — In these days, generation of electricity is not met up to the need of men. There is large number of power thefts from domestic and industrial supply lines. This Paper is to limit such thefts, by letting the Monitoring and Control Room to know the theft and also the location of theft. Monitoring and Control Room is kept known about the situation of the system at every instant. This wireless system is used to overcome the theft of electricity via bypassing the energy meter and hence it also controls the revenue losses and utility of the electricity authorised agency. There is always a contract between the consumer and the supplier that the consumer will pay for the electricity consumed by him. But in India near about 32 % of the electricity is consumed but not paid for it i.e. it is being stolen by the consumer hence the need of a system arises that would overcome this theft of electricity but mostly the electricity is being stolen via bypassing the energy meter hence this system recognizes such type of theft of electricity. Power consumption and losses have to be closely monitored so that the generated power is utilized in a most efficient manner. The system prevents the illegal usage of electricity. At this point of technological development the problem of illegal usage of electricity can be solved electronically without any human control. The implementation of this system will save large amount of electricity, and there by electricity will be available for more number of consumers then earlier, in highly populated country such as INDIA