UNDER GROUND CABLE FAULT DISTANCE LOCATOR USING IOT

Electrical Engineering

The fault that occurred in the underground power cable can be detected using the arduino microcontroller.The aim of our project is to determine the distance of underground cable fault from base station in kilometres. In our project we use’s the simple concept of ohm’s law. When any fault like short circuit occurs, voltage drop will vary depending on the length of fault in cable, since the current varies. A set of varaible resistors are therefore used to represent the underground cable. A dc voltage is fed at one end and the fault is detected by detecting the change in voltage in the resistor represented cable using a analog to digital converter and a arduino microcontroller is used to make the necessary calculations so that the fault distance is displayed on the LCD display, or by using the GSM module the fault distance is displayed in the webpage using a personal computer.By our fault detection method it is easy for an electrician or engineer to find out the exact fault location in an underground cable. And by our method the values of current or voltage is always displayed in the webpage using IOT module. Further using artificial intelligence the fault location can be identified by a system and it will try to resolve the fault at the exact fault location.

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