India has been suffering from chronic power shortage for a long time.

A power shortage of 5% occurs in peak hours even in areas where power is being supplied. Although power demand has been increasing with the rapid economic growth, it is not being satisfied, causing frequent power outage.

One of the causes of this power shortage is the loss of power transmission and distribution while the generated power is being delivered.
This loss amounts to approximately 28% in India, which is much higher than Japan's 4.7% or China's approximately 7%.

Loss is caused by technological problems related to maintenance or preparation of the power transmission and distribution system. However, there seems to be loss due to unfair use of electricity by falsification of the wattmeter measuring the quantity of used electric power or by nonpayment of electric charge.

What should be done to deliver the necessary electric power steadily without loss?
The electric power problem has been taken up as an urgent issue by the Indian government. Under such a social condition, an exposition, "India Smart Grid Week (ISGW) 2016," was held in New Deli, India in March 2016, aiming at the spread of the smart grid & smart city.

A lot of government officials, electric power companies, meter manufacturers, system manufacturers, and standardization bodies participated in this exposition. OMRON proposed solutions to India's energy problems from the viewpoints of smart energy supply, smart energy saving, and smart energy management.

The exhibits were, for example, a hybrid power generation system of the solar and diesel types capable of reducing the fuel cost of in-house power generation, a motion detector to turn on the lamp only where a person is present to minimize wasteful power consumption, and a solution to detect the falsification of a wattmeter to minimize the occurrence of loss while electricity is delivered from the substations to the destinations. Based on the technologies which have been developed in developed countries, OMRON displayed them as solutions suitable to the Indian market.

In particular, the visitors were especially attracted to the sensor solution to detect meter falsification, which seemed to be difficult to realize technologically.
This is the world-first technology realized using the sensing technology OMRON has been working on for many years and born from a partnership with an innovative electric power company leading India, TATA POWER-DDL, and a representative wattmeter manufacturer of India, Genus.

A Minister of State for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy of India, Piyush Goyal, also visited the OMRON booth.
He watched the demonstration of this technology, and left a comment that he wants OMRON to consider how to make this technology accepted by the market.

OMRON is going to develop and spread world-first technologies in the future to solve Indian society's problems and global problems in cooperation with the government and companies of India.

The president of OMRON Management Center of India, Shimizu,
shaking hands with the minister, Goyal (March 2016)