Jaipur based Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd. has unveiled a KEYPAD based Pre-Paid Electricity meter, with distinct advantages over the conventional key based or plug in type card based Pre-Paid meters.

The meter is in line with the 11th Power Plan recommendation on Pre-Paid meters. The meter will ensure advance revenue collection for the utilities and with the Government policies aligning to promote the concept will have a huge market potential in coming years.

The pilots for the technology have already started in India and the product is getting an international acceptability. Recently Genus pre paid meters have been approved by Brazilian Utilities. Genus is providing the complete infrastructure in terms of vending station, servers and relevant software and in all probability will ensure a better revenue recovery model for Electricity Utilities.

For over a decade "Genus" has been providing technically advanced Metering Products and Solutions through which Electricity Distribution Utilities have been able to control and reduce the Electricity theft and have also been able to improve the revenue recovery.

Source: Electronics Today, September 2007