Published Paper Details:

The fault location detection has been a main objective of power system engineers, in transmission and distribution systems. Identification of fault source is tedious task; fast fault detection can help to protect the equipment before any significant damage of the equipment. The exact fault location can help service man to remove persistent of the faults and locate the areas where the faults occur regularly, thus reducing the occurrence of fault and minimize the time of power outages. The paper is intended to detect the location of fault in transmission line using an Wi-Fi module and the same is transmitted to control centre using IoT device. This proposed model to detect the fault location is quick, reliable and cost effective. Overhead lines are prone to a wide variety of faults due to conditions wear and tear, rodents etc. Diagnosing the fault source is difficult and entire line should be taken out from the ground to check and fix faults. The project work is intended to detect the location of fault in overhead line lines from the base station using a NODE MCU controller. To locate a fault in the line, the line must be tested for faults. This prototype uses the simple concept. In the urban areas, the electrical lines run in overhead instead of overhead lines. Whenever the fault occurs in overhead line it is difficult to detect the exact location of the fault for process of repairing that particular line. The proposed system finds the exact location of the fault. In case of fault, the voltage across series resistors changes accordingly, which is then fed to an controller to develop precise digital data to a programmed that further displays fault location in distance. The fault occurring phase, and time is displayed on a 16X2 LCD interfaced with the microcontroller. IoT is used to display the information over Internet using the Wi-Fi module ESP8266.A webpage is created using HTML coding and the information about occurrence of fault is displayed in a webpage.