Arduino based Underground Cable Fault Distance Locator: Hardware Design

Abstract

The underground fault location is typical practice in many sectors and in various industrial units. Whenever a system failure occurs, for some reason, the repair process related to the defective wire becomes difficult because it is not possible to trace the position of the faulty cable. Therefore, the purpose of this research paper is to determine the location of the buried cable broken lines from the source station to the exact location. This research will help to easily identify and locate underground cable failure without digging the entire length of the cable before repairing or replacing the entire cable due to the difficulties of detection of the cable fault. In addition, helps to reduce loss of income due to damage when trying to detect faults. Hardware implementation was done by assembling the functional components required to demonstrate how fault detection and location can be realized A general purpose project board was used for this hardware version of the prototype, which shows the physical prototype of the fault detection and location system. Results shows the accuracy of the proposed system, where it was capable of indicating the fault location. The accuracy depends on the specifications in the instruction codes 'or instance, the number of decimals displayed depends on specifications in the microcontroller program.