The document proposes the UT Meter Reading Solution, an online mobile and web-based application aimed at improving the efficiency of meter readings in the power and electric sectors. It addresses major issues faced by state electricity boards, such as financial losses from power theft and faulty billing practices, and outlines the benefits of using information technology to streamline and automate the billing process. The solution includes real-time data transmission, improved accuracy in billing, and enhanced customer service through better monitoring and management of meter readings.

1. The Proposed Solution
A Utility Meter Reading Solution

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Introduction
UT Meter Reading System is online mobile
and web based application designed to help
Power/Electric industry to streamline the
process of collecting the readings of electric
meters.
UT Meter
UT Meter solution provides a logical approach to read and update meter reading into CRM
using Mobile through real time synchronization. This solution uses commonly used Mobiles and
very flexible approach with respect to user friendly screen design via mobile application.

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Current Concern to Electricity Boards
Losses
State Electricity Boards (SEBs) suffers huge financial losses every year due to power theft and ineffective practices
of billing and collection. Apparently, the losses have reached an alarming Rs. 26,000 crore.
Inefficient Practices
It is clear that the biggest fundamental issue hampering the viability of the Indian Power Sector is the sheer volume
or level of Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses that amount to 25%, a very high level by any standard. To
make the matter worse, indirect calculations show T&D losses to be much higher in the range of 40- 50%. In
addition, the distribution system in India is often characterized by inefficiency, low productivity, frequent interruption in
supply and poor voltage.
IT initiative
Information technology (IT) would become the key enabler in the initiatives under the reform process. IT
would not only enable the success of reforms process, it would also act as the catalyst by providing an
information infrastructure essential to the reform process and practices.

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Problem Statement & Current Process
• The present system of energy billing with
digital camera is error prone, time and labor
consuming & an overhead to DF & Electricity
Department ultimately.
• Errors get introduced at every stage of energy
billing like lazy readers intentionally capturing
wrong readings, human errors while noting
down the meter reading, data entry errors (also
time consuming), and errors while processing
the paid bills, the due bills & delay in bills
distribution.
• Generation of consumer sheet
• Reader goes to consumer premises
• Takes the photo of meter through digital camera
• Downloading of photos to computer after
completion of reading.
• Data punching from photo
• Data validation and Reading correction
• Generation of exception reports
• Creation of B30 file
• Bill processing in IT
• Bill printing and distribution
Exisitng Process

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Proposed System
Our Value
Suitable for all categories business and
personal presentation, eaque ipsa quae ab illo
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dicta sunt explicabo farmers ensure that we will
bring the best of the market to your table.
It could save 2 days in data punching & if spot billing is implemented
with UT-Meter, it could save total 4 days, and complete the billing cycle
in just 6 days.

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Use information on loading, voltage and consumption at different levels for
network
Integrate meter reading and billing for C&I customers to eliminate scope for
tampering and manipulations
Reduce theft and increase revenue
Reduce receivables and improve cash flows
Reduce the process cycle time
Provide non-tamperable transparent records. High-level executives can also
access information to monitor performance and minimize corruption, power theft,
etc. It will provide accurate and timely information for decision-making, and cross
area comparisons can be used for motivational purposes.
Improve customer service
Facilitate differential pricing by load factor, time-of-day, day-of-week, peak
consumption, etc., to even out consumption and minimize peak loads. It will shift
the onus of load management to consumer with benefits to all parties.
Proposed System Objectives

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UT-Meter – Integrated Billing System
Below is the graphical illustration of our proposed application for integrating the Billing System.

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What Does the Customer Want?
Using our idea the service levels to customers in the areas
mentioned in the figure could be improved by monitoring the four
above parameters.
• Demand vs. provision of new
connections
• Responsiveness to bill queries
• Preferred vs. available facilities
to log complaints
Complaint Handling
• Bill not delivered in time to
make payment
• Waiting time for bill payment
• Preferred vs. available mode of
payments
Payment mechanisms
• Scheduled and unscheduled
outages
• Communication from SEBs on
possible outages and outage
time
Quality and reliability
of supply
• Inaccurate meter reading or no
meter reading
• Meter reading taken but not
reported
• No posting of collection
• Changed meter status
• Split between cycles
• Wrong calculation
Accuracy of bills
The Focus of IT applications for customer benefit
Mandated Focus Area – Customer Benefit Applications

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Accuracy of bills can be improved by implementing better metering technologies,
taking accurate readings, by avoiding manual intervention and automating the billing
process.
Using our proposed idea payments made will be much safer and more trustworthy. It
will not only make the payments more fast but will also reduce the overall process
loopholes.
The following IT applications can be used for this:
Accuracy of bills
Using Bluetooth printers devices, Spot Billings can be provided to
consumers same time when reading is captured.
Save your time with us
Meter reading mobile interface with billing applications can save money
as it saves reader’s second visit for distributing bills.
Save your money
Simple interface for readers on devices & easy managing Billing
applications through web application.
Easy to use and customizable

10. 10Solution Architecture
Mobile Based Application
Readers’ Simple UI to capture
reading from customer’s
premises.
GPRS / GPS Technology
It captures meter reading along
with reader’s location though
GPS & sent to server or amazon
cloud.
Web Analytics
Plenty of data is generated; there
is a need of better insight. UT-
Meter Analytics Dashboard turns
data into actionable information.
UT-Meter, an Android based GPS & meter reading solution is developed which tracks readers, shows
real-time readings to supervisor, saves time & cost, as it eliminates data entry process & results in
accuracy of consumer's billing generation.

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Solution Requirements
1. GPS based Mobile with good camera
and flash.
2. Data package i.e. GPRS.
3. Cloud or Data server for web
application.
Hardware
Web application to fetch data
from mobile, perform data
analyses, validations, data
finalization & bill generation in
back office.
Web Application
Mobile based application for
gathering data from field.
Mobile Application

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Reader’s Authenication
Data will be pulled & pushed
from CRM and based on it;
user can login & gets
authenticated.
Select Consumer
User can view a) Existing
Consumer b) New Consumer
Select Category of Consumer
• For Existing Consumer, User
views allocated DTCs.
• User selects DTC & inputs
consumer no & search.
Verify the consumer
Consumer details are pulled
from CRM.
Take Reading
User takes picture, enters
reading & other inputs such as
meter status, meter reader
status, remark & lat/long, if
needed can be edited.
UT-Meter – Reader’s Flow

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Track Reader
• User’s Lat/Long & UTC
timestamp are taken & pushed
to CRM.
• User’s analytics such as
location & time can be traced
from CRM.
New Consumer
If consumer number didn't
match, User selects New
Consumer & takes reading
New Consumer Reading
User takes picture, enters all parameters as
consumer no, image, reading, meter status,
meter number, DTC, pole no, new meter no,
remark & lat/long, & editable parameters as
consumer no, BU, PC, Bill Month, DTC, pole,
Consumer name, address, pin code, meter no
and sends it to web server.
UT-Meter – Reader’s Flow Continue..

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Application Screenshots
Login Screen Download
Consumers
Dashboard
Very flexible approach with respect to user friendly screen design via mobile application.

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Application Screenshots continue...
Consumer List Consumer
Details
Consumer Form
Quick access to consumer list, its details & easy navigations.

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Utility Vertical
Perfect for reading any number of water,
gas, or electricity meters.
Real time
• Multiple users can be reading different
routes at the same time.
• Updates the main server app in real-time,
making the review of meter readings faster
and easier in your office.
Bill Calculation
Mobile calculates the bill on applicable
charges, surcharges and rebates on the
customer's category.
Flexible & Efficient
• Works on all internet connected smart phone
and tablet devices with Android OS.
• It Helps to streamline the process and
ultimately will result into enhance efficiency and
the productivity
Quick Search
User can search the details of particular
Consumer with the Consumer name,
Consumer no., Meter no or any relevant
information which is available with user.
Meter Status & Alerts
▪ Meter reader can check the meter status and
set the current meter status in Mobile.
▪ Application provides the alert messages with
the wrong data and unconditional data.
UT-Meter Key Features
Photo Capture
Application captures the meter image with
current reading and send to online server.
Tracking
Track the device on scheduled time to time &
maintain the mobile device movement history.
Works Online/Offline
• Mobile device work in both the mode offline/
online as direction of operator.
• Compatibility to all browsers like Mozilla,
Google chrome, safari, internet explorer etc.
Data Management
• Web application helps to upload, download
and validate the data as and when required.
• Easy to import/export the data from various
sources of files.

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Why UT-Meter ?
Efficient
Efficient Monitoring and
Control of “Meter readers”
Activities.
Happy Customers
Boost customer experience
& Satisfaction with accurate
billings.
Security
Protect organization from
the false reporting of meter
reading to the central
agency for billing purpose.
Connect IT with Utility
• B r i d g i n g t h e G a p
between Power/electric/
gas and water industry
a n d M e t e r r e a d e r
representative.
• Identify & eliminate
bottlenecks of Utility
industries.
Optimum Performance
Drive the performance of
industry to gain the
revenue and customer
satisfaction.
Increased Productivity
• Increase the productivity
and time management.
• Maintaining the information
about the devices provided to
t h e m e t e r r e a d e r s
representative.
Offline Use
Business Analytics
• D e p l o y a c t i o n a b l e
business intelligence.
• V a r i o u s r e p o r t s
generation with respect to
the meter readers and the
consumers.
• Facilitate pro-active
decisions with the help of
Analytic tools.
Allow meter readers to
acquire the offline meter
reading.

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A Solution For Billing Consumers
End to end solution from meter reading to
spot billing with android based application &
Bluetooth printers.
UT Meter with Spot Billing
Features
• Calculate Consumer’s Bill in Online & Offline mode.
• Easy to integrate billing web service with mobile application to calculate consumer’s bill with accuracy.
• The time required for Billing Calculation & Bill distribution (Duplicate Bill with receipt) is saved.
• Cost effective with respect to time and money.
• Better cost Realization.

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Values Outside
The UT Meter solution will ultimately be labor-saving and
inexpensive and can collect huge amounts of valuable data
that is easy to understand for business decisions.
Transparency
Security/
Control
MIS reports
Better Service
Accountability Manageability
What can you achieve with this UT-Meter Solution?
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