BSES Power Ltd : Automated Meter Reading Power Consumers & Grid Audit

Meters being installed inside the premises of BSES 'spower consumers, BSES

personnel had to wait for entry pass to take the meter readings. That was a

tedious job for BSES to amass meter readings of scattered consumers across

Delhi. Similarly at Grids, BSES needed exact data of energy flow into the

network for Energy Audit and Demand forecasting purposes. To do away with the

hectic job, BSES has implemented the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) project. The

project uses CDMA technology to remotely read meters of consumers as well as

Grids. A CDMA modem has been deployed at every consumer/ Grid end and by making

a call to this mo dem, meter reading is taken. With this implementation, process

of taking meter readings has become much faster and has also reduced the time

for billing. Operators are immediately alerted through alarms incase of breach

of any parameter. Data of all grids are now available at a single place, through

which MIS reports on System outage, Daily Peak loads etc. can be easily

generated. BSES plans to include more than 23 lakh consumers under this project

in future.