Secure Meters is the primary energy metering firm in India.  The company is the flagship operations of Entity Group – a $200 million global firm that develops energy metering systems and solutions.

Founded in 1988, Secure Meters introduced India’s first electric meter.  Today the company has grown exponentially, much like emerging India in the modern world.  Secure Meters does business in more than 50 countries and operates at 11 different locations around the world.

Secure Meters features a number of products capable of delivering the latest in smart grid technology.  At the substation level, the company offers the APEX smart metering system that allows for software integration, interface with communications technologies, and Availability Based Tariff (ABT) metering.

ABT works as a mechanism to regulate power in a manner that ensures short term and long term stability of the power grid.  It is a practice adopted in India and several other countries as a way to price bulk units of power for various stakeholders to improve the quality of available power on the market and minimise disruptions.

The company employs an R&D team of more than 450 people who are constantly researching and innovating new products.  As a result, Secure Meters has one of the most developed smart meter product lines available in the word.

Included within the company’s smart meter products are:

1. I-Credit 300 – a fully programmable and affordable device that allows for advanced functionality
2. Liberty – a line of prepayment metering systems that allows “pay as you go” service varying from the 1P basic model to the 3P for more customised needs and the Dual Register that can distinguish power sources and varying tariff
3. Lightchek – a combination lighting automation and smart metering system for municipalities, corporations, or utilities that allows for load management as well as demand side management in addition to basic metering functions
4. Maxchek – specifically targeted for industrial applications where demand ceilings need to be monitored
5. Premier – targeted for automatic meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments, this fully functioning smart meter has integrated communications modules

Additionally, Secure Meters has developed a variety of devices that monitor and measure electrical current in domestic, commercial, and industrial environments.  It also manufactures communications hardware including modems for fast data transfer wirelessly or over transmission lines.

At the software end, Secure Meters offers complete managing and monitoring solutions including a hand-held interface unit for use by employees in the field. The hand-held device can be used by personnel or spot analysis of the power grid and as a programmable interface with a smart meter.

The software solutions are designed according to the needs of ABT systems, as well as online interfaces for the monitoring of Elite and Premier smart meters.  Integrator works just as its name implies – it brings in data from multiple types of digital energy meters into a cohesive unit to allow for AMR services.

From the support end, Secure Meters offers data analysis services and energy audits as well as installation of equipment and on-site testing.  With all of these offerings Secure Meters is truly a smart grid innovator from all angles.

 

 

 

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