Automatic Electricity Theft Detection System Using Microcontroller and GSM
Abstract
Automatic electricity theft detection system using microcontroller present an efficient and less costly way to adulterate the wireless technique used in this project. 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 authorized agency. There is always a contract between the consumerand 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. Mainly this system consists of microcontroller, magnet sensor and seal broke sensor to check for the theft of electricity and then to send a message to the authorized agency which looks after the electricity consumed through LCD module. The wireless technique used in this system provides the major advantages such as low power consumption and also the low cost of the LCD module. The theft can be detected by the authorized agencies.
