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A Surveillance System to Counter Vandalism of Transmission Line Equipment

Authors:
JohnPaul Asiimwe
Adella Kyohairwe
Cosmas Mwikirize
Richard Okou

Keywords: UETCL; Surveillance; Machine Vision; GPRS

Abstract:
This paper presents the development of a customized surveillance system to counter the vandalism of transmission line equipment on Uganda’s national transmission operator’s network. The system is based on the Raspberry Pi platform and incorporates a Minisense Piezo-vibration sensor, an Infrared-capable Camera board and a Huawei General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) modem. The system is able to detect vibrations arising from cutting of angle bars on steel pylons, take an evidentiary snapshot of the camera's field of view and annotates the snapshot with details such as Tower number, time and date. The system then relays this snapshot to a workstation in the monitoring centre and triggers an alert in the form of a blinking display. This surveillance system will be deployed on about 4800 steel tower pylons that are currently maintained by the transmission operator country-wide.

Pages: 89 to 94

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-369-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014