Selec Controls: Panel meters, energy meters and industrial controls made in India

Overview

Selec Controls is a privately owned Indian electronics manufacturer whose products sit inside electrical panels: meters, protection relays, timers, temperature and process controllers, small PLCs and, more recently, power-quality equipment and solar inverters. The company describes itself on its overview page as a research and development led business, and it designs, tools and builds most of its range in its own plants in Navi Mumbai.

Its milestones trace a steady widening of the range. Timers and counters came first, digital temperature controllers in 2002, panel meters and a PLC with HMI in 2009, DIN-rail meters and the FLEXYS PLC in 2013, automatic power factor controllers in 2014, and split-core current transformers in 2019. Power quality and renewables became verticals in 2021, followed by static var generators, active harmonic filters and single- and three-phase on-grid inverters.

For metering buyers, the distinguishing points are price, breadth and documentation. Selec offers panel meters from basic LCD units to Class 0.5S models with harmonics, DIN-rail energy meters with MID variants, and a plug-in CT system for multi-circuit panels, and it publishes operating instructions with Modbus register lists for its communicating meters.

Offering

Multifunction meters

The MFM range is mostly 96 x 96 mm panel-mount three-phase meters. The MFM383A is the economical LCD model; its -C variants add RS-485 Modbus RTU. The MFM384 and MFM384+ add harmonic analysis to the 31st, the MFM384+ at Class 0.5S with dual-source measurement, and the MFM386 adds digital inputs and outputs, an RTD input and harmonics to the 40th. The MFM376 family uses an LED display, and the MFM384-R-C-CE packs the meter into a 4-module DIN-rail housing.

Energy meters

The energy meter range splits into CT-operated meters, which carry CE and UL marks, and direct-connected meters up to 100 A in MID or CE variants. Both offer pulse and RS-485 Modbus RTU options, and the direct-connected meters also offer M-Bus. The EM2M is the single-phase example: a 2-module DIN-rail meter for direct connection up to 100 A.

Plug-N-Wire

The Plug-N-Wire MRJ meters use Selec's own plug-in current transformers and accessories to cut panel wiring time. The MRJ4M measures one three-phase channel, the MRJ4M-SL two, the MRJ4M-QUAD four, and the MRJ385 is the panel-mount version.

Beyond metering

The same catalogue covers current transformers, digital panel meters, line, motor, pump and earth-fault protection relays, time relays and switches, PID and temperature controllers, MiBRX and FLEXYS PLCs, HMIs, drives, power supplies and on-grid solar inverters. Products are sold through distributors and channel partners rather than direct online.

Technology

Selec's communicating meters use two-wire RS-485 with Modbus RTU. The MFM383A operating instructions are a good example of the documentation style: serial settings, a register address list numbered from 30000, every measurement as a two-register 32-bit float, and a selectable word order with the most significant register first by default. The MFM383A datasheet carries the ordering codes that separate the plain meter, which has no port, from the -C and -C-CE communicating variants. That ordering-code discipline matters: two meters with the same base name can differ in whether they have a port at all.

The meter range does not include a native Ethernet, Modbus TCP or BACnet model. A site that needs IP access reads the meters through a gateway, PLC or data logger; Selec's own software page offers a configuration utility for its serial-to-Ethernet converters, alongside PLC and HMI programming tools, but no metering software platform. On some direct-connected energy meters M-Bus is offered as an alternative to Modbus.

According to its overview, the company holds approvals including CE, UL, MID, UKCA, CB, BIS and BEE across its range, runs EMI, EMC and safety test labs to CE standards, and has a research centre recognised by India's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research since 2013. Electronics production runs on 14 SMT lines and 5 wave-soldering lines, with injection moulding and tooling in-house. DigiKey's Selec product highlight independently summarises the meters as Class 1 and Class 0.5S, with harmonics to the 31st, pulse and relay outputs, and RS-485 Modbus RTU across the multifunction, energy and MRJ4M meters.

Markets

India is Selec's home market. The company is registered as a Class-1 local supplier under India's public procurement preference order and sells to government buyers through the GeM marketplace, according to its overview. Regional offices in Delhi, Coimbatore, Pune and Bangalore opened between 2009 and 2018, and its solar inverters target Indian residential, commercial and industrial installers; it showed them at REI Expo 2026 in Greater Noida alongside on-grid installer training.

Outside India, Selec built its distribution network from 2006 and set up sales subsidiaries in the United States in 2008, Germany in 2010 and Australia in 2017. Its global network page names partners in more than 75 countries across Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. In Europe, selec GmbH in Berlin runs an online shop for meters, relays, controllers and power supplies; in North America, Selec Controls USA in Las Vegas sells the UL-marked parts of the range, and DigiKey carries the line as a preferred supplier.

The applications DigiKey names for the meters include generation and distribution panels, solar and wind installations, building management systems, EV charging and commercial buildings such as hotels and malls. In practice the buyers are panel builders, OEMs and electrical contractors choosing a component, rather than end users buying a monitoring service.

Company

Selec Controls Private Limited is an unlisted private company registered in Maharashtra with CIN U31200MH1981PTC025505. The Tofler company record gives an incorporation date of 24 October 1981 and a registered office at the Mahape MIDC address in Navi Mumbai, while the company's own milestones date its incorporation as Selec Controls Pvt. Ltd. to 2000, which reads as the start of the current company and brand rather than the original registration.

Samir Kaji is managing director and Sampada Kaji a whole-time director, both with long tenures on the board according to the registry record. Samir Kaji spoke for the company at REI Expo 2026. Tofler reports operating revenue in the INR 100 crore to 500 crore band for the year to 31 March 2025.

The company reports about 1,000 employees, more than 300 of them in research and development, and 180 sales and service engineers, with 2.4 lakh square feet of facilities in total. Manufacturing has grown from the first automated SMT line in 2000 through six plants, reaching a stated capacity of 4 million products a year in 2023. It achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification in 2021 and opened a solar EPC division in 2022.