IoT-based Mobile Application for Power Theft Detection

Electricity plays a major role in our daily life in the home, offices, industries, public places, schools, colleges, hospitals, and everywhere in the world. The energy meter in our homes will display the electricity consumed by the customer and pay the Electric Bill (EB) to the government according to the power consumed in the customer’s home. The energy is transferred from the transformer to the customer’s home. In most of those cases, when transferring the power from the transformer to the homes, there will be a power theft for many reasons.It is essential to analyze if there is power theft to reduce it. The main aim of this paper is to detect whether the power is theft or not by using the Internet of Things (IoT), NodeMCU microcontroller, Arduino IoT Cloud, voltage sensor, and,current sensor. The voltage and current are collected by using the sensors in the transformer and customer’s home. The power is calculated by using the voltage and current through NodeMCU, then it sends the data to the Arduino IoT cloud. When there is a power difference between the transformer and the home, then the power is theft. When there is no power difference between the transformer and the home, then the power is not theft. Customers can view the data through the mobile application of the Arduino IoT cloud.