{"id":282774,"date":"2019-07-17T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282774"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:37:25","slug":"india-plans-to-change-all-electricity-meters-to-prepaid-smart-meters-by-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-plans-to-change-all-electricity-meters-to-prepaid-smart-meters-by-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"India plans to change all electricity meters to prepaid smart meters by 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In what will help improve the fortunes of India\u2019s beleaguered power sector, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government plans to convert all electricity meters into smart prepaid meters by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy is part of the government\u2019s electricity distribution plan prepared by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), India\u2019s apex power sector planning body, and comes at a time when the new government is trying to step up its efforts to supply 24&#215;7 power to all.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a smart meter architecture minimises human intervention in metering, billing and collection process and helps in reducing theft by identifying loss pockets. It requires a two-way communication network, control centre equipment and software applications that enable near real-time gathering and transfer of energy usage information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In what will help improve the fortunes of India\u2019s beleaguered power sector, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government plans to convert all electricity meters into smart prepaid meters by 2022. The strategy is part of the government\u2019s electricity distribution plan prepared by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), India\u2019s apex power sector planning body, and comes at a time when the new government is trying to step up its efforts to supply 24&#215;7 power to all. Creating a smart meter architecture minimises human intervention in metering, billing and collection process and helps in reducing theft by identifying loss pockets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}