PLC Based Theft Detection in Distribution

While operating in different modes, it’s become necessary to reduce the electricity theft. A major challenge for utilities is energy theft, where in malicious actors steal energy for financial gain. All worlds working on smart things so it’s necessary to develop smart protection against theft & increase power quality. And support to our economic development. In this project we present a PLC (Power Line Communication) based automatic electricity theft detection & next action taken against theft control. In this cast we will develop and plc based system which basically detects the current. If incoming current or current through meter does not match to the current taken by the load which means the consumer have tapped the line before the line/cable enter into the meter. Hence this will drive the controller to send the information over existing transmission line which feed the power to the consumer. That information will retrieve by the utility. As we are using the existing power line to communicate hence there is no need to develop an advance communication infrastructure to detect the theft. And no more running cost is needed.