A Communication Model Framework for Electric Transmission Line Monitoring Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Abstract

The natural calamity and physical malfunction in the overhead transmission line cause bad impact on the networks such as mechanical failures, power losses, reduction of line capacity, and voltage drop. These adverse impacts can be reduced by implementing proper monitoring systems. Wireless sensor network is an apt mechanism to monitor the overhead transmission network because of its physical configuration. This paper portrays the communication between wireless sensor networks and central data processing station. Cellular communication can directly transmit information through an assisted cellular module (CM) based on the probability of cellular coverage. In this paper, one of the modern optimization techniques, i.e., artificial bee colony algorithm, is used to study the problem of CM placement of cellular communication. By using this algorithm, the optimal number and location of the CMs for a test system varied from 10 to 100 are determined. A novel optimal link path scheme is proposed to check the condition of the required quality of services of both cellular/ZigBee users. The attained results show that the methodology is best suited to acquire low cost solution for the cellular module placement problem.