Muhammad Fahad ZiaFahad Ali2018-10-162018-10-162016Salik, M., Zia, M. F., & Ali, F. (2016). An efficient electricity theft and fault detection scheme in distribution system. Science International (Lahore), 28(4), 3531-3534. (Muhammad Fahad Zia (Informatics/SST) Fahad Ali, (HEC Y CAT))1013-5316https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/3313Currently the world is facing energy (electricity) crisis and it is becoming severe with the passage of time. Every country is striving to produce and save electricity. In developing countries, especially, a considerable amount of revenue is lost due to electricity pilferage and fault occurrence on the distribution system. Therefore, it is required to design a system that would be able to detect electricity theft as well as the faults on the distribution system. This paper presents an efficient and simple technique which operates efficaciously as an electricity theft detector and also serves the function of a protective relay. In this scheme, each customer is provided with smart meter and a main observer meter is connected to distribution transformer. Meters send the readings to the data acquisition center where the proposed algorithm is applied to detect theft or fault scenario. Electricity theft can be considerably reduced by using this proposed metering technique. This algorithm can also identify associated areas of electricity theft.enInformatics and SystemDistribution system, electricity pilferage, protective relay, smart meter, theft detector.Article