Design and Development of an Improved Smart Power Monitoring and Theft Detection Model

Student: Promise Chukwunonso Ezenwanne (Project, 2025)
Department of Electrical /Electronics Engineering
University of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State

Abstract

Electricity theft is a very common problem in country where population is very
high and the use of electricity are ultimately tremendous. The aim of this project
is to design and develop an improved smart power monitoring and theft
detection model by developing and designing a smart circuit that senses a higher
load compared to what the meter reads and sends an alert to the authorities.
This is simulated on Proteus 8 software simulator to validate that Internet of
Things (IoT) can be integrated into our electricity billing system. And then we do
comparative analysis on the effect of the theft load on the quality of power
distributed. The improved smart power monitoring and theft detection model
includes several modules such as current sensor, voltage sensor, ATmega32
microcontroller, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display, voltage regulator
(LM7805), Light bulbs and Raspberry pi module. The ATmega32 microcontroller
runs on an embedded C++ program and acts as the power monitoring model
while the Raspberry Pi 3 module acts as the power theft detector that runs on
Python codes. The voltage and the current sensors are tested and found to be
functioning properly. Without any human interface this model provides an
effective and easy way to detect electrical theft.

Keywords
electricity electricity theft electronic engineering smart power monitoring theft detection smart circuit
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