Genus Power: Utility electricity meters and advanced metering infrastructure services

Genus Power supplies electricity meters and AMI systems, including utility communications, head-end software and metering deployment services.

Summary

Best for
Electricity distribution projects requiring meters, communications and managed rollout capability.
Less suited to
Treating a utility smart meter as an unrestricted local building-automation sensor.
Deployment
Utility meters with RF or cellular communications, head-end collection and meter-data systems.
Data in
Metered electricity consumption, load profiles and meter events.
Pricing
Pricing was not established from the reviewed technical sources; request a quote for the exact configuration.

Overview

Genus Power supplies electrical meters and the systems used to operate them across utility networks. Its company overview separates metering from engineering, construction and power-distribution projects. The metering portfolio covers direct-connected and transformer-operated instruments, distribution-transformer monitoring, grid meters and prepayment products. The company's role therefore extends beyond selling a single residential meter.

Its AMISP description treats advanced metering as the complete path from the meter through communications to the control centre and associated applications. That is the relevant comparison for a distribution operator planning a rollout. It is a different procurement scope from adding a small number of locally polled energy meters to a building system.

Offering

The SAKSHAM-145 product page identifies a single-phase, two-wire, direct-connected smart meter. It describes configurable net, forward, prepaid and postpaid metering, alongside consumption histories and event records. The meter maintains load-survey and billing records, giving a utility both interval consumption and the billing information needed for the selected tariff arrangement.

The same page describes an interchangeable RF or cellular communication module and a local optical interface. The broader company catalogue additionally covers transformer-operated, distribution-transformer and grid applications. A buyer should distinguish those electrical categories before comparing software features, because utility service type and current measurement arrangement determine which meter family is relevant.

Products and platforms

  1. AMISP

    Metering infrastructure service

    Meter-to-control-centre infrastructure and applications under an agreed service scope.5

  2. Distribution-transformer meters

    Utility measurement

    Part of the broader electricity-meter portfolio; exact model requires selection.1

Technology

For SAKSHAM-145, Genus documents DLMS/COSEM communications, local optical reading and two-way links to a head-end system. It also describes remote firmware updating and time synchronization. These are utility-management functions tied to the meter's communication and access arrangements, rather than evidence of a generic Modbus interface.

The AMISP overview places communications between the field meters and the control-centre applications, supporting load profiles, meter reading and event analysis. That separation helps explain an implementation: physical measurement, transport, head-end collection and meter-data use are different components. A comparison with another supplier should cover how those components are supplied and operated, not only which radio appears on the meter specification.

Markets

Genus's milestones record both product developments and utility projects. Examples include the Kala Amb smart-grid pilot, a metering infrastructure laboratory at Powergrid's Smart Grid Knowledge Centre, and work on narrowband IoT for advanced metering. These provide context for a portfolio centred on electricity distribution and meter-fleet operations.

The same timeline records expansion into communicating gas meters and ultrasonic water meters. Those developments broaden the measurement portfolio, but the company's main offering still distinguishes metering solutions from electrical construction and distribution infrastructure. For an energy-sector buyer, the useful question is whether the requirement is a meter purchase, an integrated AMI project or a wider distribution-system contract.

Company

The annual report records incorporation in 1992. The company timeline starts manufacturing in 1994, producing thick-film hybrid microcircuits and surface-mount PCB assemblies. It records commercial electronic-meter production beginning in 1996 and subsequent expansion into multi-tariff, automatic-reading and prepayment products. The sequence explains the connection between its electronics manufacturing origins and its current utility-metering business.

Genus Power Infrastructures Limited describes itself as part of the Kailash Group in its company overview. Its annual report distinguishes the corporate office in Sitapura, Jaipur, from the registered office in Noida, India. The corporate history also records manufacturing expansion at Haridwar and Guwahati, alongside later responsibility for complete advanced-metering projects under a service-provider model.

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References

  1. Genus Power company and group overview (opens in a new tab)
  2. Genus Power company and product milestones (opens in a new tab)
  3. Genus Power Jaipur contact address (opens in a new tab)
  4. SAKSHAM-145 single-phase smart meter specifications (opens in a new tab)
  5. Genus advanced metering infrastructure service scope (opens in a new tab)
  6. Genus Power official website (opens in a new tab)
  7. Genus Power annual report 2024–25: incorporation and corporate office (opens in a new tab) (PDF)

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