Inesh Smart Energy: Economic and Efficient Energy Management with Advanced Metering Solutions


Kalichamy.K, Founder and CEO

The widespread adoption of smart grid technology in India is an uphill journey as it assists utilities to address two of the key issues, environmental concerns, and power delivery limitations and disturbances, while simultaneously battling a host of challenges encountered. Geographical differences, insufficient management of energy usage, power theft, inadequate grid infrastructure, low metering efficiency and lack of awareness are factors that impede the progress of the permeation of such advanced technologies in India. “The major challenge in building infrastructure for a perfect and complete smart grid lies in the deployment of smart metering. The challenges look big owing to the large volume and complexity in integration. But to me the challenge here is in the technology availability to meet the standards,” opines Kalichamy. K,a mechanical engineer and top corporate executive turned entrepreneur with 23 years of technical, techno-commercial and top management track record, Founder CEO and Managing Director of Inesh Smart Energy. Distinctly setting themselves apart from its competitors, Chennai headquartered Inesh Smart Energy, an end-to-end solution provider, proffers a comprehensive suite of offerings from smart meter, communication module in GPRS, PLC, RF, IOT and WIFI, hardware and software, all indigenous Make in India designed and manufactured in-house assuring the highest quality.

Investing its combined experience in this industry, the team understands the unique market requirements in India and supports
the Make in India initiative. “With global expertise and knowledge on both the smart metering and communication, IOT and being an Indian Origin Company, we understand the Indian smart grid requirements better and our solutions are best suited for Indian needs and comply with Indian standards and specifications,” reveals Muthu Subramanian, a veteran with 23 years of expertise in design and metering, communication and the Technical Director and Head of R&D at Inesh Smart Energy. A key ingredient that propels the advancements of India is the company’s proprietary and robust 'smarte' offering, a smart metering system on module, which enables the meter manufacturers and utilities to manufacture and deploy interoperable and highly secure smart meter and smart grid in the shortest possible time frame. Providing manufacturers with a complete smart meter technology on a SOC (System on Chip) enables the manufacturer to make his own smart meter with his ability to incorporate additional encryption for a double layer of security as well.

" With global expertise and knowledge on both the smart metering and communication, IOT and being an Indian Origin Company, we understand the Indian smart grid requirements better and our solutions are best suited for Indian needs"

Another novel offering is the Micro Smart Grid solution that acts as an integrated retrofit solution for any enterprise or society. It enables the efficient management of local generation and distribution of energy. Headed by two renowned individuals, Kalichamy and Muthu have guided their team of 30 handpicked specialists atop the positive growth trajectory of 1 million to 90 million INR from 2014 to 2018 in Business Volume within the sectors of metering, communication, IOT, and software. The team prides itself on successfully executing India’s first ever Windmill AMR solution in Tamil Nadu; a prestigious project for TANGEDCO. Driven by zeal, a team of industry-specific professionals and advanced technologies, Inesh Smart Energy has geared themselves for the future Indian Smart Grid deployment, and are currently working with ITI for the 2.5 million Smart meter deployment in UP and Haryana through EESL.