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Reliance To Enter Smart Electricity Metering Market As India Looks To Replace Over 25 Crore Conventional Meters
Electricity meters providing power supply in houses on March 10, 2014 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Priyanka Parashar/Mint via Getty Images)
Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is looking to enter the smart electricity meter market, adding more vigour to the world's largest smart electricity meter programme which is presently under implementation in India, reports Livemint.
RIL is said to be planning to leverage its Jio backbone and driven capabilities to offer meter data collection, communication cards, telecom and cloud hosting services to the electricity distribution companies through narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) which serves as a low-power wide-area network radio technology standard.
It should be noted that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had also urged all States and Union Territories (UTs) to replace all the conventional meters with smart prepaid meters over the next three years during her budget speech earlier this year.
