NOVEL APPROACH OF DETECTING FAULT IN POWER LINE USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Abhijit A Dutta, Shivpal R Verma, Harsha B Sarvaiya

Abstract: Fault occurring in power line are mostly asymmetrical in nature thereby detecting and locating fault is very necessary for healthy operation of distribution system. Fault which occurs in system makes the working of system untrustworthy. In this paper a novel concept using wireless sensor for detecting fault which includes phase to phase, short circuit and mainly line to ground fault is analysed. In the proposed concept power line is divided by WSN (wireless sensor network) nodes which will sense the faulty condition in power line send command to ARDUINO board and via ATmega328 microcontroller, displays to operator and send SMS through GSM modem to service engineer. This is well demonstrated with the help of hardware model and encouraging results are obtained which can make WSN an attractive instrumentation solution in electrical distribution networks and also a viable tool for detecting fault in power transmission line for its accurate fault detection

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Network, Optimum operation, Arduino, hall-effect current sensor, sensor nodes.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0522001