FAULT DETECTION OF

UNDERGROUND CABLES
USING IOT
TEAM MEMBERS:
ARUN. N (18TC0114)
PRITHIVIRAJAN. D (18TC0201)
RAJA. S (18TC0206)
UDHAYAKUMAR. G (18TC0253) GUIDED BY:
Dr. S. THAMIZHARASAN,
Associate Professor, Department of ECE, SMVEC
ABSTRACT

As India become prominent as a progression country, civilized field is too boosting every day.
Underground cables are prone to a wide variety of faults due to underground conditions, wear
and tear, rodents etc. Diagnosing fault source is difficult and entire cable should be taken out
from the ground to check and fix faults. The project work is intended to detect the location of
fault in underground cable lines from the base station in km using a Node MCU controller. The
proposed system finds the exact location of the fault. 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.
INTRODUCTION
• Power supply networks are growing continuously and their reliability getting more important
than ever.
• The complexity of the whole network comprises numerous components that can fail and
interrupt the power supply for end user.
• For most of the worldwide operated low voltage and medium voltage distribution lines,
underground cables have been used for many decades.
• Underground high voltage cables are used more and more because they are not influenced by
weather conditions, heavy rain, storm, snow and pollution.
• Even though the Cable manufacturing technology is improving steadily; there are still
influences which may cause cable to fail during test and operation.
LITERATURE SURVEY

S.No Author Title Year Explanation

1. Emmanuel Gbenga Design & Implementation of 2019 This Technology is used to find
Dada, Abdulkadir Fault Identification in out the exact location of the fault
Hamidu Alkali, Underground Cables Using and to send data in graphical
Stephen Bassi Joseph, IOT format to our website using a
Umar Abba Sanda. GSM module at the same time it
display on the LCD screen. The
project uses the standard theory
of Ohms law
2. R.K. Raghul, Underground Cable Fault 2017 When any fault like short circuit
Mansingh, R.Rajesh, Detection using Raspberry pi occurs, voltage drop will vary
G.Ramkumar, and Arduino depending on the length of fault
S.Ramasubramani in cable, since the
current varies CT is used to
calculate the varying
3. Ganesh, B. Murade, Underground Cable Fault 2017 The proposed technique is
Amruta D. Jetla, Detection using GSM used for identification as well
Surabhi K. Ajabe, as it is also used to send the
Bhagylaxmi D. information about the fault to
Dudgu. the authority using GSM and
for security of people it cut
the power supply on that
particular location and display
the fault location in KMs on
LCD Display.
4. Karan Sethi, Sameer Underground Cable Fault 2019 It is a technique used to detect
Bhambri, Brijesh Distance Locator fault location of cable from
Kumar Dubey. one or both ends without
tracing. This method usesto
locate general area of fault, to
expedite tracing on buried
cable.
5. P. Gurumurthy Arduino based Underground 2017 A set of resistors are
Reddy, Mohammed Transmission Cable Fault therefore, used to represent
Basha, T. Govind Location System the cable and a dc voltage is
fed at one end and the fault is
detected by detecting the
change in voltage using a
analog to voltage converter
and a microcontroller is used
to make the necessary
calculations so that the fault
distance is displayed on the
LCD display.
6. Mingchang Huang, Detection of Incipient Faults 2020 It can be applied to detect
Qinghua Wu; Xinlei in Distribution Cables Based both sub-cycle and multi-
Han, Chun Mo, on Mathematical cycle incipient faults. The
Luliang Zhang Morphology performance of the proposed
algorithm is evaluated using
data collected from
PSCAD/EMTDC.
7. J. Kaewmanee, Underground Cable Fault 2017 This article proposed the use
T.Indrasindhu, Location via Random Forest of Random Forest algorithm
T.Menaneatra, Algorithm to locate faults for medium
T.Tosukolvan voltage underground cables.
The algorithm was capable of
finding the fault locations
with high accuracy, and can
serve system operators and
crew staff as a guideline for
an efficient system service
restoration
8. Ankita Nag , Fault Location in 2020 The proposed platforms are
Anamika Yadav , Underground Cable System useful to study the concept of
A.Y. Abdelaziz Using Optimization optimization techniques in
Technique combination with the
conventional cable fault
location methods.