Data mining has become increasingly common in both the public and private sectors. This paper presents a new approach towards Distribution Power Loss analysis for electric utilities using a novel intelligence-based technique like Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), an online sequential learning algorithm for single hidden layer feed forward networks (SLFNs) with additive or radial basis function (RBF) hidden nodes in a unified framework. OS-ELM & Support Vector Machine (SVM).
The main motivation of this study is to assist Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam LTD (GUVNL), GUJARAT, INDIA to reduce its Distribution Power Loss due to electricity theft. This approach provides a method of data mining and involves feature extraction from historical customer consumption data.
This model preselects suspected customers to be inspected onsite for fraud based on abnormal consumption behavior. The proposed approach uses customer load profile information to expose abnormal behavior that is known to be
highly correlated with Distribution Power Loss activities. The approach uses customer load profile information to expose
abnormal behavior that is known to be highly correlated with Power Loss activities. Simulation results prove the proposed
method is more effective compared to the current actions taken by GUVNL in order to reduce Power Loss activities.
Index Terms— Electricity theft, Extreme learning machine (ELM), Online Sequential Extreme learning machine (OSELM),
Support vector machine, Intelligent systems.