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Design And Implementation Of Electical

Distribution Line Monitoring And Controlling
Using Wireless Network

Trupti Sudhakar Somkuwar Mahesh G. Panjwani

P.G. student : dept. of computer technology Assistant professor : dept. of computer technology
Priyadarshini college of engineering Priyadarshini college of engineering
Nagpur, India Nagpur , India
truptisomkuwar92@gmail.com maheshpanjwani@gmail.com

Abstract-- As the electric transmission line is spread Increase in demand of electricity for entire

widely at long distance location is become difficult to applications in any country, need to produce consistently

monitor, control the power supply in the transmission line. with advanced monitoring system. Consider a condition
Physical inspection at every location and troubleshooting is
when there is power failure at particular area then
not feasible. Same problem is still facing at traffic monitor
anybody from that area has to inform electric support
and control units as every square which are currently
office and then and then only official person come to
controlled manually by operator. Wireless Sensor Network
know about the failure of power. On other hand if due to
(WSN) provides access over remote location with centralized
any reason if officials wants to shut down power at
monitoring and controlling on different channels so it can be

utilized for electric transmission line monitoring. While the particular area there is no direct remote control over the

WSNs are capable of cost efficient monitoring over vast geo­ supply hence linemen has to go and manually shutdown

locations, several technical challenges exist. Detection and the system.

location of faults on power transmission line is essential to These both the issues are very critical and it is expected
the protection and maintainance of a power system. At
minimum time support from the support system.
present system there is no monitoring system implemented
Considering all these problem we are trying to design and
in order to find out the distribution line fault.To overcome
developing the remote electric transmission line
these problems in regional areas proposed system is designed
monitoring and control system where autonomous system
to monitor and control the electric transmission line using
fixed at every electric pole will look at the power supply
WSN.

Keywords-: Wireless sensor network (WSN),

state and control its supply on command. Along with the
smart grid,
electric power grid, electrical transmission and distribution pole fixed device there are base stations which will
system, internet of thing(IOT), remote monitoring and
control. monitor pole status by communicating with pole device

through wireless medium. Electric-power transmission is

I. INTRODUCTION the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating

When transmission lines are consistent with each others, power plants to electrical substations located near demand

then it turn into association of transmission network. centers, hence difficult to monitor.

wireless sensor network(WSN) offer access over remote The project reports the failure of the distribution

areas with centralized monitoring and controlling on line electric power supply and it send data to the

different channels so it can be utilized for electric monitoring station and monitoring station will send

transmission line monitoring, control real time power information to lineman via SMS with the location of

flows. faulty line pole.

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II. LITERATURE REVIEW implemented using web of thing. the controlling of the

energy sources for each home is done by the help of

cognitive radio based wireless access communication of source changers, these source changers are controlled by

line and substation monitoring system of smart grid is embedded devices. these embedded devices are customize

proposed in this paper. A cognitive radio based wireless with the help of internet of things.[6].

access system is used for constructing the lOT for power By using transmission line concept, it develop a

line and substation monitoring system in smart grid. this monitoring system prototype for guys towers.guy towers

system is uses hybrid wireless communication system, are installed on land and places of difficult access.guy

such as wi-max,& it is used to support the exchange and towers consisting of the installation of some sensors on a

transfer of sensor information [2]. transmission tower capable of detecting the status of the

The collaborative and low cost nature of wireless sensor guy tower(tensioning)and convey this information

network brings significant advantages over traditional remotely to a center control.[7].

communication technologies used in today's electric For our existing society, electricity IS very imperative.

power system. it will be very helpful for the experimental And to accurately uphold and expand this power

study on the statistical characterization of the wireless distribution system, it is needed to understand and

channel in different electric power system environments. monitor the system behavior. self configuration of sensor

characterize and measure link quality in WSNS can be node which is comparable to DHCP, can be done. in this

calculated using the concept of CC2420 radio component various types of fault is occur in transmission system

and IEEE 802.15.4[3]. single line to ground line fault, line to ground fault, line to

Broadband wireless access technique used for monitoring line fault, balance three phase fault. this four fault allow

power transmission line. smart grid technology ensure to understand transmission line system.[8].

information exchange and resource management rapidly Electricity generation, electricity transmission, electricity

and efficiently smart grid technology will involve distribution this three terms are associated with the power

various technologies, including sensing, communication, grid. it present a communication infrastructure to provide

networking, security, data mining analysis, control and low cost, reliable data delivery[9].

management etc. hybrid wireless system is used for High voltage transmission lines are dependable are very

monitoring power transmission line. here wi- fi and wi­ much important for transmission of electric power

max technology is used for sensed data transmission in magneoresistive sensor is used to find out electric current

transmission of data.[4]. and line position. electric current is measured to avoid

The electric spring is an emerging technology used for overhead ,phase unbalance, fluctuation etc. line position is

stabilizing smart grid and enabling load demand to follow used to keep track of sagging and galloping situation.[lO].

power generation. Use of electric spring in reducing From smart grid, electricity is distributed to our present

energy storage requirements in power grid. electric spring society with the help of internet of things(lOT),smart grid

allow the non-critical load power to vary with renewable technology is the important technical support for the

energy profile. by reducing the instaneous power generation, transmission, substation, distribution. Smart

imbalance of power supply and load demand profile to grid is based on internet of things.IOT technology is

follow the power generation profile and reduce energy convenient of smart grid.[ll]

storage requirement in power grid[5].

III. PROPOSED RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Renewable and non renewable energy sources are use to

generate power system. Smart grid technology is Above figure shows the detailed working of

proposed system where it shows the proposed wireless

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autonomous node at every electric pole and which are

directl communicatin with the base station over

Transmission
Controller Fig 2: system requirement
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.............. Wireless
Communication
..................... (Cr) 1. The entire project consist of RF Transmitter and
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RF Receiver
Receiver, Microcontroller Circuit, Electrically
Module
operated Relays, power supply

2. As soon as the current falls out the back-up

batteries will take over the functions of the power

SMS to
failure detector.
technician
or Lineman
3. The power failure message is transmitted via RF

transreceiver to the monitoring station.

4. Monitoring station will find out the location of the

pole and display its location over area map at

central station send SMS to assigned lineman

Fig I: system architecture
along with failed pole position.

5. Lineman will take control over the failed line and

directional and on demand data transfer will be done and
repair within minimum possible time which will
not continuous data transmission hence it will save more
save the time duration to fmd out failed line also
energy and increase node life. If any node detected failure
will minimize the downtime.
in power supply it will send some pre-defined code along

with pole identity to base station and automatically

software will show the failed pole location on map and
detailed information about pole. After getting the pole
details system will fetch the contact number of the
linemen to whom pole maintenance of failed node is
assigned and then inform linemen to have look over the
problem if possible.
Here we are building a wireless node which can centrally
monitor and controlled
wireless cluster head.
responsible to see the electric poll status and control the
poll activities to enable or disable power in particular
area. As it is not feasible to monitor the central server full
time.
A. Rf transreceiver module
it is a long range RF which is use for communication.
This RF module is connected with the USB to TTL
module through the port. For example FT232 IC is the
one which convert TTL logic to USB logic so that device
works on TTL logic can share the data with the devices
connected through the USB cable. USB to TTL module
through base station or the
having FT232 IC to convert microcontroller signal into
A centralized server will be
serial format. It helps to interface USB or serial port
devices with model supporting UART.FT 232 IC helps
the user to interface the UART supporting module/devices
with the PCs or laptop though the serial or USB port. this
USB to TTL module is connected to the server(PC). As

the system is connected to the USB to TTL module driver

IV. COMPONENT BLOCK
and it will let the application access data using com port.

thus RF is communicated with the central server, and with

the help of this it can transmit or receive the information

between the pole and central server. RF transceiver

module is used to transmit and receive the information

between the poles and central server.

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monitoring station will send information to lineman via

SMS with location of faulty line pole.

B. Electrically operated relyas

relays have states like normally open(NO), normally

close(NC) ,com(COMMON),which are embedded with

V. CONCLUSION
the microcontroller circuit. Com port is a logical

hardware access medium.com port is a communication In this paper we proposed the novel approach for

port.& it is the original yet still common, name of the monitoring and controlling the electrical distribution line

serial port interface on PC or laptop. programming using wireless sensor network. We are trying to design

language will provide a classes to read from or write to and developing the remote electrical transmission line

data on com port. if the relay will trip then the power monitoring and controlling the system using WSN. The

failure message is displayed to central server, as well as primary objective of this paper is to monitor the power

relay will control the power line control. transmission line, and failure in particular area. For this

purpose we need an advance monitoring system. This

paper analyze the problem of Electric current and line

C Atmega16 microcontroller module
position of transmission line. The aim of this paper to

control and monitor the line position at any area using

microcontroller is used to embedded many devices.
the concept of electrical distribution line. So the proposed
Microcontroller can communicate with the RF module
system is designed to have emergency alert system for
through the UART (universal asynchronous receiver and
remote user with the help of a GSM modem will be
transmitter)port. after getting the pole details and line
connected to the central server which will send the
position of any particular area, the centralize server will
emergency alert SMS to administrator and user.
be able to see google map API on the desktop screen, and
Implementing this will reduce more time and also
then google map provide the factor like longitude,
officials can give better supports to their customers.
latitude, map type, zoom, level, label etc. longitude and

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Trupti S. Somkuwar received

undergraduate degree in electronics &
telecommunication engineering in 2013.
She is currently student of M.E. in
wireless communication and computing
branch

Mr. M. G. Panjwani
He has obtained B.TECH in Computer
Science Engineering in the year of 2006
from ACET, Nagpur and M.TECH in
Embedded System Computing in the
year 2010 from GHRCE, Nagpur. He is currently working
as Asst. Prof. at P.C.E. Computer Technology Dept. PCE,
Nagpur.

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