In a move to check faults and power theft, the Ghaziabad division of power distribution company – the Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (PVVNL) – has started putting up location-tagged quick response (QR) codes on all electric poles and transformers in the district.
According to discom officials, PVVNL teams can scan QR codes with their devices to gauge how much power was drawn from a pole or transformer. If there is a mismatch, the company can now pinpoint where the leak is, they said.
The chief engineer of PVVNL (Ghaziabad division), Pankaj Srivastava, said they have begun the process of putting up QR codes on every pole. “An independent agency was hired to put up stickers on all 280 transformers and over 250,000 poles in the district,” he said.
