Power Saved is Power Gained. HameshaON, implying always on, is an advanced smart grid system with help of cloud based services monitors every junction/branch or overhead electrical line at all points across the power distribution network. It starts with the utility followed by feeders or distribution transformers and finally, comes down to the neighborhood electricity poles and the consumer. 

The device, which sits at different nodes and is Wi-Fi enabled, can pinpoint the quantum and the place where energy is getting leaked — that too at real time. This helps distribution firms to fix accountability helping them improve revenue realisations.

A smart grid is a computerised electrical system where the devices talk and listen to each other. In this system, the homes, poles and transformers communicate with each other in real time to match the sum of all the energy billed against the energy pumped out at the distribution transformer. The communication technologies used are terrain based to ensure optimum connectivity to the central station which has complete view of the network.
This cloud based real-time audit helps maintain efficiency levels at 90 per cent while local data centers and distributed computing across the network ensure high security levels. The gadget allow dynamic load control for consumers – they will be allowed to draw a part of their contract demand till supply improves – thus avoiding blackouts.

An Odisha school teacher Satya Shobhan Das’ indigenous device to track and prevent electricity theft could be used – after six stages of development and a rigorous pilot project — to bring down distribution losses at India’s power utilities by almost 8 per cent. Distribution losses in India have been pegged at 35 per cent last fiscal and the primary worry for distribution companies is unauthorised power consumption. Power theft and leakages go on unabated since thieves often bypass the tamper-proof meters and draw power illegally.