Electromechanical meters have proven their ability to survive harsh environmental conditions over extended periods of time but they lack the functionality and accuracy required for SEBs to reduce their distribution losses. Distribution losses can be reduced with reliable electronic energy meters in a variety of ways. In the future, perhaps several years, India will need electronic energy metering for automatic meter reading networks. In the short term, many people expect that the rate of electronic energy meter adoption will quickly increase as the cost and number of individual components decrease and the reliability of the entire system increases. Reduce the cost of theft and corruption on the electricity distribution network with electronic designs and prepayment interfaces.
Prepayment meters ensure that SEBs collect the proper revenue for the electricity that they provide.
Electronic energy meters now exist that measure current in both phase and neutral and calculate power consumption based on the larger of the two currents. As discussed below, these solutions no longer have to be populated with many components on a printed circuit board. Highly integrated solutions exist to reduce cost and improve reliability. Improve the cost and quality of electricity distribution through remote meter reading and efficient data management. Besides reducing the cost of manually reading meters, power outages can be detected, identified, and corrected more quickly for customers whose meters are communicating through a network.