Energy Theft Detection By Deployment Of Smart Meter

Abstract

After the studying the limitation of conventional electromechanical and electronics energy
meters in terms of detecting power theft , the possibilities of using smart energy meter to
handle the cases of power theft will be taken up in this paper.This paper proposes Electrical
power theft detection system(smart meter) is used to detect an unauthorized tapping on
distribution lines. Implementation area of this system is a distribution network of electrical
power supply system. Existing system is not able to identify the exact location of tapping. This
system actually finds out on which electrical line there is a tapping.A smart metering system
to control electricity theft so an intelligent energy metering system can efficiently control the
theft. To improve the quality and reliability of power delivery, so we used the advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) , commonly known as the smart meter which has the capability
of detection of energy theft and send the information(message) of electricity theft to the utility
through GSM module so with this An SMS alert is triggered and sent to the Utility Company
for necessary action.