1Engineering Officer Gr.-1, Affiliated to Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bhopal
2Additional Director (Unit Head), Affiliated to Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bhopal
3Engineering Officer Gr.-4, Affiliated to Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bhopal
Online Published on 29 February, 2024.
Reliable, affordable, and quality of power ensure the well functioning of electricity infrastructure. Number of schemes has been introduced to reduce Aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses and the Average cost of supply-average revenue realized (ACS-ARR) gap. Revamped distribution sector scheme (RDSS) is one such scheme launched to help Distribution companies (DISCOMs) has introduced Advance metering infrastructure services providers (AMISP). More than 70 tests have been conducted in the selected testing laboratories with passing percentage of about 64% on both Cellular and RF technology. RF technology is found to be better in performance compared to Cellular technology. Meter malfunctioning, remote firmware upgrade and meter tampering detection is a big concern for the AMISPs during the testing. In this paper the procedure of AMISP demonstration testing, parameters of verification and analysis is discussed. Quantitative analysis model introduced in this paper may help the DISCOMs to have an idea of future reliability of AMISPs.
AMISP, Service Level agreement, Quantitative analysis, Cellular technology, RF technology
