Power Theft Detection in Microgrids

Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh

2015

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Remanidevi Devidas A. and Vinodini Ramesh M. (2015). Power Theft Detection in Microgrids . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-105-2, pages 342-349. DOI: 10.5220/0005446703420349

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens15,
author={Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas and Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh},
title={Power Theft Detection in Microgrids},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2015},
pages={342-349},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005446703420349},
isbn={978-989-758-105-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Power Theft Detection in Microgrids
SN - 978-989-758-105-2
AU - Remanidevi Devidas A.
AU - Vinodini Ramesh M.
PY - 2015
SP - 342
EP - 349
DO - 10.5220/0005446703420349