e-metering solution for checking energy thefts and streamlining revenue collection in India

The proposed e-metering is a special class of distributed data network. The e-metering data possess unique characteristics and the network needs innovative technology to record, monitor and process the data. The data are processed to collect information of defaulting customers, power usage profile of an area and of a consumer, supply outage time and losses incurred in distribution system. This system is capable of measuring and estimating the quality of power supplied to the consumers. It consists of data acquisition, transmission and processing components among the energy meters, local area stations and base stations. The application of the e-metering system is extended to streamline power distribution with online monitoring of power quality, real time theft detection and automatic billing. The facility can be extended to connect water and gas meters to this system using the meter interface units (MIUs) to develop a remote unified billing system.