BRINDAVAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE(BITS-KNL)

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

A Project Review on
UNDERGROUND CABLE FAULT DETECTION BY USING GSM

PROJECT MEMBERS
D. Hussain Peera.........(152N1A0207)
A. Sai Jyothsna Reddy(152N1A0201)
S. Deepthi.....................(152N1A0225)
K. Vinod Kumar..........(142N1A0211)

Under the guidance of

Mrs. P. Siva Deepthi
Assistant Professor
Dept. Of EEE
 ABSTRACT
 A bundle of electrical conductors used for carrying electricity is called as a
cable. An underground cable generally has one are more conductors covered
with suitable insulation and a protective cover.
 While a fault occurs for some reasons, at the time the repeating process related
to that particular cable is difficult due to not knowing the exact location of the
cable fault.
 The objective of this project is to determine the distance of underground cable
fault from base station in kilometres.
 The information which is displayed on LCD screen & it will also sent a
message to mobile by using wifi module.
 LIST OF CONTENTS

 Introduction

 Block diagram
 INTRODUCTION
 In earlier days it was very difficult to find the exact location of the fault in underground cable.
To overcome this problem we have designed a project is to find the exact location of the fault
of both open and closed circuit. The project uses the standard concept of Ohms law i.e., when
a low DC voltage is applied at the feeder end through a series resistor (Cable lines), then
current would vary depending upon the location of fault in the cable.

 The project is assembled with a set of resistors representing cable length in KM’s and fault
creation is made by a set of switches at every known KM to cross check the accuracy of the
same. The fault occurring at a particular distance and the respective phase is displayed on a
LCD interfaced to the Arduino board.

 The information which is displayed on lcd screen will be sent as a message to to mobile by
using gsm module.
 BLOCK DIAGRAM

SUPPLY LCD
A
R
OPEN CIRCUIT
D
FAULT SWITCHES U WIFI MODULE
I
N
SHORT CIRCUIT O BUZZER
FAULT SWITCHES
SUPPLY:

• In this project we are using Ac source as input

• An adapter is used to convert and step down the input

voltage (230v Ac) to 5v Dc.

• And that 5v dc is given as input to the arduino

 FAULT SWITCHES:

• The purpose of the Fault Switch is to create a deliberate fault

on an under ground cable , responding from a signal given by
the wifi module.

• Here we are using two types of fault switches

• 1 )open circuit fault switches

2)short circuit fault switches

ARDUINO:

• Arduino board designs use a variety of

microprocessors and controllers.
• The boards are equipped with sets of digital and
analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be
interfaced to various expansion boards
or breadboards
• The boards feature serial communications
interfaces, including Universal Serial Bus (USB)
on some models, which are also used for loading
programs from personal computers.
LCD:

• LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is an

electronic display module and find a wide

range of applications.

• A 16x2 LCD display is very basic module

and is very commonly used in various
devices and circuits
WIFI MODULE:
• The WiFi Module is a self contained SOC with
integrated TCP/IP protocol stack that can give
any microcontroller access to
your WiFi network.

• The wifi module is capable of either hosting an

application or offloading all Wi-Fi networking

functions from another application processor.

BUZZER:

• A buzzer or beeper is
an audio signalling device, Typical
uses of buzzers and beepers
include alarm devices, timers, and
confirmation of user input such as a
mouse click or keystroke.
OUTPUT OF OUR PROJECT