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Our company was the market leader with a 20 per cent share in the market for meters in India in fiscal 2015.
Gautam Seth, Joint MD, HPL Electric & Power Ltd
meters, with their features of Interval Data, two-way remote communication, import/export energy registers and Demand Response Messaging through in-home display, aid meeting this objective.” The granularity of data that can be collected from the meter enables the utility to redistribute the loads based on proper load studies thus reducing the chances of breakdown. Real-time pricing helps in peak-load saving (i.e. flattening of demand curve) thus avoids the need for addition of capacity only to take care of peak loads. The power fail alerts allows the utility to take immediate corrective action to correct power outages. At the same time, tamper alerts sent by the meters can be used by the utility to take decisive and deterrent action against unscrupulous consumers. Domain Experts HPL Electric & Power Ltd HPL Electric & Power Ltd is an established electric equipment manufacturing company in India manufacturing a diverse portfolio of electric equipment. “Our company was the market leader with a 20 per cent share in the market for meters in India in fiscal 2015,” said Gautam Seth.
Smart meters will help monitor and manage the energy consumption effectively and engage the end user.
Babu Babel, Joint Managing Director, Secure Meters Ltd
L&T Electrical & Automation The Metering & Protection Systems business unit of L&T Electrical & Automation has been manufacturing electronic energy meters with communication facilities for the last 20 years. Meters with remote communication through Low Power Radio have been deployed at several locations all over India. The company has executed some of the largest AMR projects in India and some of these projects are operating successfully for periods greater than 2 years. “We have also launched our Smart Meters with two-way communication and connect/disconnect facility and supplies will start shortly,” informs Bhargava. Smart city projects are still at a nascent stage with most of them being only at the tendering phase. L&T Electrical & Automation is bidding for these projects either on its own or through other system integrators. Secure Meters Secure Meters introduced world’s first smart meter way back in 1988, claims Babu Babel. “Secure has expertise in producing cost effective and relevant smart solutions and has been in this space for last three decades.” It has the total system’s capability and also has first-hand experience of running a “smart utility” business in the UK. “With exposure to utilities nearly 50 countries around the world Secure can address
HPL offers an extensive range of metering solutions with advance communication interfaces like LPRF (low power radio frequency), GSM/GPRS, IrDA, Modbus, and Ethernet. The company’s research and development efforts include design and development of all types of energy metering solutions including interactive communication between metering devices and metering infrastructure that includes AMR and AMI, smart meters with two-way communication and complete range DLMS compliant meters.
We have also launched our Smart Meters with two-way communication and connect/ disconnect facility and supplies will start shortly.
S. C. Bhargava, Senior Vice President, L&T Electrical & Automation HPL Smart Meters Continued to 28
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