DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTRIC POWER OUTAGE MONITORING AND LOGGING SYSTEM

Authors

  • Brendan Ubochi

    Federal University of Technology Akure

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51459/futajeet.2024.18.2.557
Keywords:
Outage Monitoring, Electricity Meters, Data Logging, Microcontroller
Abstract

Recently, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission implemented the service reflective tariff to encourage investment, improved service delivery and competitiveness in the electricity distribution sector. This tariff system imposes a higher tariff on consumers in band allocations with longer duration electricity supply. However, the discrepancy between the duration of supplied electricity and the expected duration for the respective bands results in inaccurate billing, financial losses and a lack of trust. Additionally, unmetered electricity customers are usually billed based on an averaged estimated energy consumption including losses and is not reflective of the actual energy consumed. This work focuses on the development of a device for monitoring and logging electricity power consumption and outage duration. The system control is achieved using the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller and relies on sensed inputs of voltage, current and power from the PZEM-004T module for its operation. The developed system provided accurate measurements of the electrical parameters and was tested for supplied electricity duration and outage over a period of three days. The results show that at the selected location belonging to the Band A category (> 20 hours/day supply), the daily electricity supplied were 4 hours, 57 minutes, 16 hours 13 minutes and 11 hours 39 minutes, respectively, much lower than the expected duration for the designated service band.

Author Biography
  1. Brendan Ubochi, Federal University of Technology Akure

    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTRIC POWER OUTAGE MONITORING AND LOGGING SYSTEM. (2024). FUTA JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, 18(2), 20-25. https://doi.org/10.51459/futajeet.2024.18.2.557

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