Authors:
Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas
and
Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh
Affiliation:
AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), India
Keyword(s):
Electrical Grid, Micro-grid, Power Theft, Wireless Networks.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Architectures for Smart Grids
;
Energy and Economy
;
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols
;
Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
;
Smart Grids
;
Sustainable Computing and Communications
Abstract:
Theft of electricity amounts to 1.5% GDP, of most of the developing nations like India. Hence there is a
great need to detect power thefts in developing nations. In this paper, we have proposed a wireless network
based infrastructure for power theft detection which caters to other functional requirements of the microgrid
such as renewable energy integration, automatic meter reading etc. Algorithm for power theft detection
(PTDA) which is proposed in this paper, works in the distributed intelligent devices of the microgrid
infrastructure for power theft detection. The coordinated action of intelligent devices with PTDA in the
microgrid infrastructure enables not only the detection of power theft, but the localization of power theft in
the micro-grid. PTDA increases the 1) cost of communication 2) energy consumption of intelligent devices
3) packet latency, if any critical data is piggy backed with power theft data in micro-grid. To solve these
issues, we have proposed EPTDNA
(Efficient Power Theft Data Networking Algorithm) which uses the
frequency of power theft detection and average power draw for power theft, for the efficient routing of
power theft. The performance analysis and results given in this paper shows how EPTDNA solves the major
issues with PTDA.
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