A unique Smart Energy IoT meter prototype that holds significant benefits to the industry has been successfully made by researchers of PSG College of Technology, and its technology was transferred to industry partner Delving R&D on Thursday.
With the fund-support from the Department of Science and Technology, infrastructure-support from PSG Tech and Industry-support by Delving R&D Pvt.Ltd and Naveen Spinners, Coimbatore. Principal Investigator Prof.L Ashok Kumar and team have come up with a smart energy IoT meter with 7 variants that will cater to the power management of small, medium and large industries.
The technology transfer happened in the presence of Krishna Kanth Pulicheria, Scientist, DST, Govt.of India and Prof.K.Prakasan, Principal and Prof.Kanakaraj, HoD, EEE Dept, PSG Tech.
While other smart meters can only monitor particular parameters, this new one from PSG has the ability to monitor all electrical and physical parameters, apart from that this metre can do predictive analysis.
It can check the maximum demand of a particular industry (say, Textiles) and shut down the Non-critical loads. It comes with a dedicated Software package that collects data from hardware and sends it to a cloud, which could later be shared with energy management system labs for analyzing energy usage and other aspects.
It was told that implementing this smart meter could help large industries to meet the ISO 50001 energy management system’s standards, which is one of its key highlights.
There is so much energy going wasted and if every state holder of this energy sector is prudent, India can save 25000 megawatts of energy every year, Prof.Ashok expressed.
He shared a study that said most industries spend up to 15-20% of their total expenses on energy, and one of the goals of this smart meter is to monitor efficiently and help the user reduce money spent on energy.
Speaking at the event the chief guest said that developing a technology, demonstrating at a pilot stage, convincing stakeholders and transferring technology is a big challenge, and he appreciated Prof.Ashok and his team for coming out with significant innovation.
Sharing about a few of the proposals that come to DST he said that many researchers assume about a problem that’s prevailing in the industry and hypothetically give a solution but such solutions never end up benefiting the industry but it is only turning out to be project completions. He said DST is looking forward to innovations and ideas and solutions that could fill the gap in the industry and give solutions to their problems.
He wanted the academia to serve the needs of the industrious, especially the small and the medium industries and bring innovative ideas to the floor as projects.
Talking directly to Ramesh Babu, the head of Codissia (that has 6000+ members belonging to MSME), the Chief Guest asked him to flag their problem statements to them directly or through PSG, and the project proposals that aim to solve these problems will be supported so that the society benefits eventually.
Chitra, the CEO of Delving R&D assured the gathering that this technology will be rightly used and be responsibly applied.