LOCATE POWER METER IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BASED ON POWER FLOW ANALYSIS AND VOLTAGE DROP METHOD

Abstract - Electricity is a major source for achieving goal of
economic growth and fulfill power necessities of a nation.
Electricity production has increased substantially as it has
become a major requirement in a country’s development, but the
consumption and production of electricity should be balanced. To
keep consumption synced to production, power companies are
facing many hindrances and challenges due to electricity theft and
wastage of electricity because of various faults and difficulties in
pin pointing the exact fault location. We propose a method to
analyze data of smart energy meters and determine exact location
of energy meter from Transformer. It can be helpful for finding
the location of power meters in distribution system. Proposed
method has been tested for various power consuming nodes and it
is observed that location of power meter is independent of power
consumption by different nodes which is highly recommended for
practical use. Our Method to analyze data depends only upon the
number of consumers. Results can be improved by increasing the
number of consumers. This proposed method is very convenient
for maintenance, troubleshooting, minimizing the illegal usage of
power and fault detection. We used power flow analysis and
voltage drop technique to pin point near about exact location.
Already existing method to find location by using satellite was
having deficiencies as it was not accurate in indoor environment
but our proposed methodology is best fit to overcome such
shortcomings
Index Terms – Smart Meter, Data Analysis, Troubleshooting,
Loses Controller, Distribution system.