{"id":589983,"date":"2023-07-10T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=589983"},"modified":"2023-07-10T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T06:48:56","slug":"bescom-set-to-install-smart-meters-in-industrial-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bescom-set-to-install-smart-meters-in-industrial-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bescom set to install smart meters in industrial areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After numerous pilot projects and years of discussion, smart electricity meters will soon be a reality in Karnataka, with officials saying it is the future of the industry and a &#8220;win-win situation for both customers and escoms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The allure of smart meters lies in the benefits they bring such as remote monitoring and usage tracking, which promise to usher in transparency and accountability. But being capital intensive, a large-scale rollout is still a few years away. <\/p>\n<p>Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) will install as many as 1,049 meters in the industrial areas of Hoskote, Nelamangala, Chandapura and surrounding areas in the next few days, following a directive from the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After numerous pilot projects and years of discussion, smart electricity meters will soon be a reality in Karnataka, with officials saying it is the future of the industry and a &#8220;win-win situation for both customers and escoms&#8221;. The allure of smart meters lies in the benefits they bring such as remote monitoring and usage tracking, which promise to usher in transparency and accountability. But being capital intensive, a large-scale rollout is still a few years away. Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) will install as many as 1,049 meters in the industrial areas of Hoskote, Nelamangala, Chandapura and surrounding areas in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589983","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}