ABSTRACT
With the increasing demand for electricity for various applications and purposes in any country, it is required to coherently develop and equip the already existing infrastructure with advanced power protection, management, and handling systems. Distribution lines are constantly exposed to lots of disturbance by nature due to natural disasters, such as cyclones, storms, or heavy rainfall. Any minor fault in the line or short circuit may lead to severe damages in distribution line, ultimately leading to expensive equipment failures in feeder stations. By using an automatic system, it will be possible to computerize the process entirely and precisely locate the nature along with the intensity of the fault and its exact location in a particular area and provide that information to the serviceman or the person responsible for themanagement of distribution lines of that area by sending them an automatic system-generated SMS. This system consists of LabVIEW, a virtual software that uses programming in a local power distribution unit. It is interfaced along with an array of fault detectors in the distribution line, which detects different types of interruptions in line, such as short circuit, drop in voltage, excessive voltage, heating due to higher load are sent to local power distribution units using a wireless communication device like a GSM module, which is connected with the software to every local monitoring stations, which keeps monitoring the parameters and scans for any abnormalities or fluctuations. If any such failure occurs due to various reason within a transmission network or any specific substation, the autonomous fault detection system quickly generates and transmits an SMS to the repairing team and prompts the team to cut off the power of a particular area. This will terminate any possibilities of electrocution, and many other fatal accidents can be prevented. Also, previously knowing the nature of the fault will warn servicemen about the severity of the situation, for which they can be prepared beforehand. This system also helps the consumers be comfortable. There will be no requirement of approaching an electrician to complain to him about the failure, and the delay in these repairing works will be ideally minimized.
