Power monitoring and theft detection system using IoT

Abstract

Electricity thefts are increasing every year across domestic as well as industrial domains which affect the economic status of the country. Various wireless communication systems are available to detect the power theft, but lacks the required infrastructure needed to employ them. The project's aim is to design a system to monitor the power consumed by load and to detect and eliminate the power theft in transmission lines and energy meters. This work is also focused on communicating the theft information to Electricity Board (EB) through IoT. As a network of devices is connected like sensors it has the ability to exchange real time information through internet. In this project Raspberry Pi is utilized to detect power theft and send command to GSM module which sends the theft information message to EB. The implementation of this system will help save large amount of electricity.