Smart meter: Explore how smart energy meters

Explore how smart energy meters can transform India’s power sector, boosting transparency, cutting losses, and enabling smarter consumption. Learn about the national programme to replace conventional electricity meters with prepaid smart meters in India. Find out the benefits, status, and how to request a prepaid smart meter for your household. A smart meter is an electronic device that records information —such as consumption of electric energy, voltage levels, current, and power factor—and communicates the information to the consumer and electricity suppliers. The above dashboard covers only IS-16444 standard certified Smart Meter deployment schemes/projects. However, 1,27,767 non IS-16444 certified but standard functionality compliant Smart Meters were deployed in some projects.