Underground Cable Fault Detection using Arduino and IoT (Internet of Things)

Underground cables are prone to a variety of errors due to underground conditions, wear, rodents, etc. Diagnosing the source of the error is difficult and the entire cable must be removed from the floor to check and correct the errors. The project work aims to determine the location of errors in the underground cable lines of the base station in km using an Arduino. To locate a cable fault, the cable fault must be tested. In urban areas, electrical cables run underground instead of overhead lines. Whenever the underground cable failure occurs, it is difficult to determine the exact location of the failure for each cable repair process. The proposed system finds the exact location of the fault. The prototype is modeled with a set of switches representing cable length in km and fault creation is made by a set of switches at every known distance to cross check the accuracy of the same. In case of fault, the voltage across series resistors changes accordingly, which is then fed to the Arduino? The fault occurring is displayed on a 20X4 LCD interfaced with the Arduino. IOT is used to display the information over the Internet using the wifi. A website is created with HTML coding and information about the occurrence of errors is displayed on a website.