18-10-2010, 04:36 PM
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OBJECTIVES :
With a technical view, “Power Theft” is a non-ignorable crime that is highly prevalent, and at the same time it directly affects the economy of a nation.
We believe our implementation ideas is a boon to the electricity board offering them a chance to detect accurately the location and amount of power theft. Logical view for a digital meter is also included in our presentation.
INTRODUCTION:
“TODAY’S TECHNICIANS ARE SO FOCUSSED ON THE TREES OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE THAT THEY FAIL TO SEE THE FOREST; THE UNDERLYING ECONOMIC FORCES THAT DETERMINE SUCCESS AND FAILURE…”
“TECHNOLOGY CHANGES ECONOMY LAWS DO NOT”
Power theft has become a great challenge to the electricity board. The dailies report that Electricity Board suffers a total loss of 8 % in revenue due to power theft every year, which has to controlled.
Our paper identifies the Power theft and indicates it to the Electricity board through Power line. We had also dealt about the remote monitoring of an energy meter.
MODES OF THEFT :
It has been seen that there are 4 common methods of power theft as given below :
Bogus seals and tampering of seals.
Meter tampering, meter tilting, meter interface and
meter bypassing.
Changing connection.
Direct tapping from line.
