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GSM based power theft control system

Abstract
Electrical energy is very important for ever day life, and a spine for the industry. Electricity is
indiscipline to our daily life with increasing need of electricity the power theft is also increasing.
Power theft is a problem that continues to plague power sector across the whole country.
Electricity theft happens when the customer use energy meter tampering such as placing magnet
near to energy meter, disconnecting the neutral line and shorting the phase coil of the current
transformer. For this theft mechanism we are going to design a system to overcome these
challenges. Electrical power theft detection and control system is used to detect when the
consumer try to use the power illegally. In this project we are going to use two current
transformer which used to measure the reading of electricity one is for measurement of phase
current and the other is to measure the turning back or neutral current. Those signals fed to
microcontroller through the bridge rectifier. Microcontroller will compare both signals. Depend
on the comparison made, the microcontroller decides whether theft is going on the energy meter
or not and the message will be sent to notify the authorized power vendor using GSM for that
energy meter. Moreover when there is occurrence of theft the relay will disconnect the load from
the electricity power supply. We have to use proteus software to analyze and estimate what the
hardware will look like. Mainly this system consists of microcontroller, energy meter, current
transformers, LDR, relay, LCD and GSM module. When a person try to use power illegally, the
Arduino sends trip signal to the relay coil.

Keyword: Arduino microcontroller, energy meter, current transformers, LDR, relay, LCD
and GSM module.