Finnish connectivity company’s mesh technology now sits inside 700,000 smart meters in Himachal Pradesh, delivering on service level commitments in some of India’s most demanding terrain
Himachal Pradesh is a state built on extremes. Tucked into the Western Himalayas, it stacks high peaks against deep valleys and fast rivers, with villages strung along mountainsides and towns packed tight into whatever flat land the terrain allows. For a smart electricity meter, that means two very different problems at once: long distances between meters in the hills, and high density inside the towns. Wirepas, the Finnish company whose RF mesh technology connects more than 12 million smart meters across India, now sits inside 700,000 of them in Himachal Pradesh, and the network is holding its service levels across both.
A state moving fast. As per the Ministry of Power’s data as on 31 December…