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Abstract This paper illustrates the developments of GSM becoming very popular choice to the researchers and
message based Fuse alarming system to indicate the blown scientists for such type of fault detecting, reporting,
condition of a fuse in a multi-fuse based electric supply system. diagnosis and control applications. The advantages of mobile
It has the capability of restoring the power through a standby communication technology in the recent years have been
parallel path in an uninterrupted fashion. The controller has extensively used in different form in different application
the capacity of monitoring the status of 32 numbers loads. areas. GSM (The Global System for Mobile
Each load is supplied either by a main fuse or by a standby Communication) is a standard set developed by the European
fuse. Hence altogether 32 numbers of main fuses as well as 32 Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe
numbers of standby fuses can be monitored. As soon as the
technologies for second generation (2G) digital cellular
main fuse blown is detected, a parallel path is provided by
turning on a standby fuse within few microsecond of elapsed
network. Many researchers are working towards GSM-based
time. At the same time the fuse respective LED will be remote wireless automatic monitoring System [1]. The
displayed at the front panel to indicate the healthy and faulty authors in [2,3] describe a system for the remote monitoring
conditions of the fuse. A centralized Hooter/buzzer will also be and control of complex stand-alone photovoltaic plants based
activated for any blown condition. On the other hand a on GSM. There are many works done by the researchers to
predefined message with fuse serial number will be sent to five monitor different power sources using GSM technology
preset mobile numbers using a GSM modem. The power will [4,5,6].Authors in [7,8] have described some procedures for
be interrupted for both main fuse and standby fuse blown. condition monitoring of power stations equipments and
After attending the fault, and once the fuse is restored on-line, electrical machines of a multi-machine system.
the system starts working with proper healthy running
indication. An ordinary low power processor is utilized and Hence controller design for protection using embedded
total cost is very low. controller along with GSM modem interface is a challenging
task for protecting railway infrastructure. The authors in [9]
have studied the application of GSM technology in
Keywords GSM message, annunciation, main fuse, standby protecting Railway infrastructure and judged the
fuse vulnerability of interference in GSM based system.
In this developed work the authors have designed a low
I. INTRODUCTION cost automatic protection circuit for multi-load system with
In a complex electric network infrastructure like GSM based auto annunciation.
Railway, a very strong protection circuit is provided for
protecting different electric machines in its different system. II. OPERATING PRINCIPLES
Today in the era of Wireless Communication Technology, The proposed system has the capability to monitor the
Industry automation has got a special advantage regarding load current of up to 32 nos. of load. Each load circuit is
annunciation and protection circuits. Automatic detection of protected by a fuse circuit which is termed as main fuse
any fault in a multi protection system in electric locomotive circuit. If for any reasons other than short circuit, the main
requires continuous polling of each input to the load about its fuse is blown. The load supply can be restored immediately
healthy condition and if any fault occurs in the system, the by a standby path containing another standby fuse and a
protection can be achieved replacing the main protective path relay contact. Thus each load can be supplied by two paths-
by some other standby protective circuit This automatic one direct path through a Main fuse and the other path
protection circuit needs annunciation which can be done by contains one Standby fuse and one NO contact of a Relay
the introduction of GSM technology. (Fig. 1). Hence to monitor all 32 load 64 nos. of Main fuse,
The application of less expensive but more powerful 64 nos. of Standby fuse and 64 nos. of fuse sensors are used
microcontroller will lead this protection system more simple. in the system.
The convergence of microcontroller based hardware with the
wireless communication system (like GSM, GPRS) is
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EVENT SMS
withstand operating temperature up to 70 C and humidity up MCB is also connected to the GSM modem and other
to 95. It shall be from reputed make. When a fuse blows, it annunciation circuit like LED indications and buzzer (Fig.
shall generate SMSs as shown in TABLE I. Station code: 7). The Main Board senses the data of each daughter card
XXXX (to be fed in the system with flexibility of change by from common data bus using Time Division Multiple Access
user). as shown in Fig. 6.
III. IMPLEMENTATION
A. Hardware Design
The overall system hardware is assembled in housing as
shown in Fig. 3. It has the following three basic hardware
modules which are described as follows.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors acknowledge RSOP, CPRI Bangalore,
Ministry of Power, Govt. of India and UGC SAP DRS-I
project, for providing the necessary infrastructural facilities
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