Energy Theft Detection by Smart Energy Meterusing WSN in Real Time

Electricity is one of the most important resources for humans and is commonly used for generating power by various utility companies. But recently these companies are facing huge amount of losses due to rampant theft of electricity. It is difficult for the utility companies to detect electricity theft. Annually, the world loses approx. US$89.3 billion due to this with India being on the highest. The proposed system in this paper uses a smart energy meter interfaced with controller to count and monitor the unit’s usage and together with wireless sensor network, a procedure to detect any tampering done with the meter is deployed. The goal of proposing this system is to monitor the power consumption and detect theft. The Energy Meter used here deals with the measurement of power being consumed by a consumer and displays the information to the consumer and further identifies the status of the meter of any theft by using wire integrating technology. Keywords—Electricity Theft, Smart Energy Meter, Electricity theft, Wireless Sensor Network, Power measurement, Smart Grid, Real Time Monitoring

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