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Detection and localization of illegal electricity usage in power distribution line

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Detection and localization of illegal electricity usage are important issue for power distribution companies. In order to detect illegal electricity usage, network current-based methods using smart meters were mostly used in previous researches. The main disadvantages of those methods are that they are unable to detect the exact location of illegal electricity usage. In addition, all users must be disconnected from the power system to detect the exact location. In this research, an inspection robot proposed for detecting and localizing of illegal electricity usage. The inspection robot can define location of illegal electricity usage on the air transmission line without disconnecting the end user’s electric connection. In addition, this method can indicate fault location of transmission line. This paper presents a novel mobile sensing-based localization method for illegal electricity usage by using an inspection robot, and it is verified through simulation and experiment results.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a grant from the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012R1A1A2043822) and the Technology Innovation Program of the Knowledge economy (No. 10041834, 10045351) funded by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE, Korea). In addition, it was supported by MKE (Ministry of Knowledge Economy), NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency), and KOFST (The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies), 2012 Science and Technical Support specialists Supporters (H5701-12-1002).

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  1. Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, South Korea

    Mandakh Oyun-Erdene, Bat-Erdene Byambasuren, Eric T. Matson & Donghan Kim

  2. Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Eric T. Matson

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea

    Eric T. Matson

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Oyun-Erdene, M., Byambasuren, BE., Matson, E.T. et al. Detection and localization of illegal electricity usage in power distribution line. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 4997–5012 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2022-2

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