Identifying Location Of Stock Wire Puller Inside Electric Conduit Using Bluetooth Signals

• Main Author: Hanes a/l Thanapathan
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Bluetooth Signal

The wire puller is a tool used by electricians to route new wires such a power cable, network cable or phone cable inside electrical conduit and walls. The wire puller is guided through confined space such as conduit by careful manipulation. The objectives is to push toward an area where wire puller is insert inside confined space such a conduit and pull it through. Electricians use wire puller to route new wiring through electrical conduit. Sometimes wiring professional will face a problem when extending the wire puller inside the electrical conduit that has conceal. The wire puller may be stuck at some point in the pipe due to many factor such as conduit is bend , concrete water have flow in conduit and harder inside, broken conduit when semen work was done, etc. Because of this problem the exact location of the stuck wire puller may not be known, and that may lead to blind destruction works causing time and money resources not only to professional electrician but also to other construction worker. This project focus on create a prototype that can find the location of stuck wire puller inside conduit using Bluetooth signal. A beacon technology is used as main Bluetooth signal transmitter and the location is discovered by measuring the signal power level that is using RSSI method. RSSI value is measured through the Beacon Scanning app that available play store in user mobile phone. The prototype of this project is successful when the location of the stuck wire puller is able to identity even when it is inside the conduit. This prototype can be used as a solution in real life problem face by electrician to identify the location of the stuck wire puller inside conduit.