RMM

ORISSA has mare than1500 remote villages or hamlets which are to be electrified through Biomass Gasifiers or SPV Home lights / Street Light systems or SPV Power Plants. If a device malfunctions, report of its malfunctioning takes a lot of time and on an average the defective device is left unattended for nearly 10-15 days. This defeats the very purpose of electrification and therefore a system has been developed for remote monitoring of these devices on a day-to-day basis. The remote monitoring mechanism involves the activity of each device to be monitored by a data logger. This data is transmitted directly or through repeater stations to the server.

If a device does not show any activity for 24 hrs , it is presumed that the device is not working and an alert message of the malfunction device (name of the beneficiary & village name) is forwarded to the AMC provider.
The monitoring mechanism has been developed by Webrains Solutions (P) Ltd, Bhubaneswar and is being fine tuned for large scale replication. The pilot project has been implemented in BPEP , Bhubaneswar under R&D programme funded by the State Govt.
Large scale assembling (50k +) would bring down the cost of monitoring to about Rs 1000 per system / year.

BENEFITS
Each device can be monitored on a day-to-day basis including battery , PV and lamp status Actual hour of working of each device can be noted Theft or tampering of the systems can be alerted to implementing agencies. Incase of defects, immediate action can be taken This monitoring mechanism is the methodology suggested in the RVEP,VESP CDM Project Monitoring of AMC contracts of suppliers can be done with the help of reports generated.