Prepaid meters and smart solutions have multiple gains for all Smart metering solutions provide a host of benefits to both the consumers as well as the electricity distribution companies. While smart meters help the consumers in being charged fairly for the actual power consumed, discoms gain by saving on distribution losses and cutting manpower cost for meter reading.
**************************************************************** The onslaught of coronavirus pandemic and consequent lockdowns, besides causing health and economic havoc, inflicted another kind of damage on many households – a significant, and in some cases even shocking, rise in their electricity consumption and billing. Due to the strict lockdown in force, electricity departments were unable to conduct physical reading of the meters installed at the consumers’ premises. The public was, therefore, charged on the basis of their average consumption in the corresponding months of the previous years. The bills thus calculated were massive and left most of the consumers shell-shocked. The distribution companies (discoms), on their part, have been facing another kind of challenge – that of major losses in electricity distribution. With the advent of technology that makes calculating manual physical reading ineffectual, both these challenges can be met successfully. “The distribution companies (discoms), on their part, have been facing another kind of challenge – that of major losses in electricity distribution.