Smart Meters Designed For Reliability: How Kimbal Is Scaling a Consumer-Centric Rollout Across India

The firm is collaborating with all the acclaimed Advanced Metering Infrastructure Providers (AMISPs) in the country, which has a nationwide footprint spanning to 20 utilities.

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Robust manufacturing, consumer safeguards, and smart infrastructure solutions, such as those from Kimbal, are vital to ensuring the success of the RDSS scheme. Kimbal ensures quality by embedding the latest technologies into its products. Anirudh Sinhal explains more in talks with EPR. Let us hear him.

How do you ensure quality and scale in smart meter manufacturing, and how are consumer interests protected in rural and vulnerable areas?

We have crossed the 3.14 million smart meter supply milestone nationwide, representing a healthy 10 per cent of total installations. Our ability to deliver at this scale stems from the strength of our uniquely designed manufacturing process. AI-enabled automated production lines and in-house NABL-accredited labs power our scale. We have a daily process of selecting random samples from the shop floor and subjecting them to rigorous Ongoing Reliability Testing. To ensure our meters work reliably in humid coastal environments, colder regions, and dry rural interiors for ten years, we subject them to Accelerated Life Testing and Environmental Testing. We are currently collaborating with all the acclaimed Advanced Metering Infrastructure Providers (AMISPs) in the country, which have a nationwide footprint spanning 16 states.