Kimbal Smart Meter

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an integrated system that brings together smart meters, communication networks, and data management software to enable seamless, two-way communication between utilities and consumers.

Kimbal’s AMI solution is designed to make energy management simpler and more efficient for utilities. It combines Kushal smart meters, ImGATI in-meter gateway, Vayu RF-Mesh communication infrastructure, Vaani Head-End System (HES), and cellular communication via Network Interface Cards (NIC). Together, these components help utilities track energy consumption in real time, remotely connect and disconnect supply, and automate billing, without requiring physical meter reading.

Kimbal offers a comprehensive range of smart meters designed to meet the needs of residential, commercial, and utility applications. This includes single-phase, three-phase, LTCT, HT, feeder, and distribution transformer (DT) meters.

All Kimbal smart meters are IS 16444-compliant, ensuring dependable performance across diverse geographical conditions and use cases. Built with advanced capabilities such as real-time monitoring, accurate billing, remote communication, and tamper detection, these meters help utilities operate more efficiently while giving consumers better visibility into their energy usage. With a product defect rate below 0.5%, the smart meters are designed for reliability and long-term performance, making them a trusted choice for smart metering deployments across India.

A Head-End System (HES) is the central platform that communicates with smart meters to collects meter data and sends commands across the smart metering network.

Vaani is Kimbal’s enterprise-grade Head-End System designed to make smart metering operations easier and more efficient. Vaani’s open architecture ensures seamless interoperability with smart meters from multiple OEMs, giving utilities greater flexibility and control.

Vaani also provides real-time insights, intelligent automation, reliable command execution, and zero data loss, helping utilities manage their networks with confidence. Its architecture scales seamlessly to support growing deployments. With an open and flexible design, Vaani also integrates easily with Meter Data Management (MDM) systems, making it a future-ready solution for utilities of any size.

Kimbal’s primary connectivity solution is its KMesh. KMesh is a Made-in-India mesh network designed to deliver reliable communication even in challenging environments. It enables fast network convergence, robust multi-hop data routing, and multi-layered encryption, ensuring secure and consistent data transfer across the smart metering network.

Kimbal also offers a Cellular 4G communication module for areas that require wider coverage. With dual-SIM support, seamless network switching, and 2G fallback, it helps maintain uninterrupted connectivity, even in locations where network availability may be intermittent or inconsistent.

A Network Interface Card (NIC) is the communication module in a smart meter that enables it to connect to the wider AMI network. In simple terms, it acts as the bridge between the meter and the utility’s system, enabling seamless data transfer.

Kimbal’s NIC supports both RF-Mesh (NAN) and Cellular 4G communication, so meters can reliably connect across different locations and network conditions. With a NIC, every meter, whether in dense urban areas or a remote location, can securely send consumption data to the Head-End System in real time. This enables better visibility and smarter energy management decisions.

Samaksha is Kimbal’s AI-powered meter reading application designed to make meter reading faster, more accurate, and cost-effective. The AI-enabled app can accurately read meter displays across different lighting and display conditions, helping reduce manual errors and improve efficiency.

Samaksha is particularly useful for utilities that still operate legacy meters and need a practical bridge before transitioning to full smart meter deployments. By simplifying meter reading and reducing operational costs, Samaksha helps utilities take their first step toward smarter energy management.

Yes, Kimbal’s smart meters are IS 16444-compliant and BIS-approved, ensuring they meet regulatory and performance standards. The meters are manufactured in a BIS-approved facility and supported by an in-house NABL-accredited testing laboratory, ensuring quality and reliability at every stage of the manufacturing process.

Kimbal is the key industry partner in India’s Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS). With more than 12 million AMI endpoints integrated and currently being rolled out, Kimbal is actively supporting India’s national goal of deploying 250 million smart meters by 2028.

Yes. Kimbal is a fully integrated AMI solution provider, from manufacturing smart meters and communication hardware to deploying RF-Mesh networks, configuring the Head-End System, and providing field workforce management tools.

Having a single partner for the entire end-to-end project lifecycle gives utilities a single, accountable partner throughout the project. It also helps speed up deployments, simplify operations, and maintain consistently low defect rates, ensuring smoother and more reliable smart metering rollouts.

Ojas EnergyWatch is a smart meter mobile app built by Kimbal Innovation Lab. It delivers real-time, personalized energy consumption data to end users, enabling utilities, property managers, and sub metering providers to offer a single platform for transparency, billing visibility, and seamless consumer communication. The app is purpose-built for a wide range of energy stakeholders including sub metering providers, utilities and DISCOMs, property managers, energy service providers, residential communities and commercial buildings.

Kimbal’s Energy Management Solution helps commercial and industrial consumers reduce energy costs by managing power more efficiently. The AI-driven platform automatically analyses tariffs, market trends, and energy consumption to help businesses procure electricity at the best possible prices.

With features like demand response, automated power trading on IEX, real-time monitoring, and renewable energy integration, the platform enables smarter energy decisions, improved efficiency, and 10%+ savings on energy bills.

Sub-metering allows businesses to measure and monitor energy consumption at a granular level, whether for individual tenants, departments, shared facilities, or specific equipment. It is especially useful for secondary market spaces, such as commercial complexes, malls, campuses, co-working spaces, and industrial parks, where tenants or multiple consumers need to be fairly charged for their energy consumption.

Kimbal’s intelligent sub-metering solutions allow businesses to gain real-time energy visibility, have accurate and transparent billing, and remote monitoring, helping organizations identify energy wastage and optimize consumption. It also enables outage alerts, automated reporting, and seamless communication, making infrastructure management simpler and more efficient. With better visibility and control over energy usage, businesses can reduce operational costs, improve billing efficiency, and achieve strong ROI.

KMesh (Kimbal Mesh) is Kimbal’s low-power RF mesh networking solution designed specifically for smart meters, sensors, and gateways. It enables devices to communicate over multiple hops to reliably connect and cover large geographic areas in dense networks without relying on a single central point of coordination.

KMesh allows utilities to build fast-deploying networks that provide reliable connectivity and guaranteed data delivery even in the challenging network conditions, with a 99% SLA. Its self-healing capability ensures uninterrupted communication, while low latency enables real-time data, remote commands, and faster issue resolution.

Designed for massive scale (100+ million nodes) with minimal resource usage, KMesh helps utilities reduce operational costs, improve network performance, and scale deployments with confidence.

Based at Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Kimbal’s Mega Plant is a state-of-the-art production facility spread across 250,000 sq.ft. of area. The plant has a capacity of manufacturing up to 1.2 million+ smart meters monthly (~15 million per year), capable of meeting utility demands to cover wide scale deployments in tight timelines. The product defect rate is less than 0.5%, reflecting high manufacturing precision.

The plant operates on fully automated assembly lines, producing up to 40,000 meters a day with consistent output and minimal human intervention. Built on a strong zero-defect approach, it follows lean manufacturing, TQM, and continuous improvement practices, supported by ongoing team training.

Kimbal’s CSR efforts are driven through Project Kritya, a heartfelt initiative rooted in the idea of purposeful action. Focused on Shiksha (Education), Swasthya (Health), and Samridhi (Livelihood), it reflects Kimbal’s belief that true progress lies in creating impact that communities can see and feel.

Project Kritya began in Surajpur, Greater Noida – home to much of Kimbal’s manufacturing workforce, making it deeply personal and community driven. Over the past year, the initiative has impacted over 3,000 children, creating opportunities to learn, grow, and express themselves, while building confidence, improving well-being, and encouraging a more inclusive path to development.

At Kimbal, the focus lies in redefining the grid by embedding intelligence directly into smart metering infrastructure. By making smart meters future-ready, upgradeable, and capable of supporting advanced edge applications, Kimbal enables a more responsive and adaptive energy ecosystem.

This approach allows utilities to enhance grid reliability and stability, optimise operations for greater efficiency, and empower end-users with unprecedent transparency in their energy usage. It also strengthens utility’s ability to track energy consumption through faster detection of suspicious activity and irregular usage patterns.