AP to launch IoT pilot projects in MSME units in all districts

Vijayawada, Nov 9 (KNN) The state government will launch the Internet of Things (IoT) pilot projects in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in all the districts for studying energy efficiency measures.

Reportedly, after the first pilot project in an MSME unit in East Godavari, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has agreed for more such projects and sanctioned funds for them.

Now, the AP State Energy Conservation Mission (SECM) will take up the project in five MSME units in each district with the support of the Department of Industries.

According to a press release, SECM CEO A Chandra Sekhar Reddy stated that the BEE was impressed by the sustainable efforts of the state government to improve energy performance in the MSME sector and responded to the proposal to implement the IoT project in selected MSMEs across the State.

The initial pilot project gave excellent results which was taken up in Padma Ceramics in East Godavari district. The IoT devices were found to have helped in saving about 11,000 units per annum in the whole cluster with an annual monetary benefit of Rs 80,000.

The devices support real-time monitoring of various electrical parameters and give information on voltage fluctuations continuously through mobile phone communication, which would enable the entrepreneurs to take steps that save energy.

Energy-intensive sectors such as foundry and forgings, glass and ceramics, brick, textile, dairy and food processing were identified as big gainers fr0m the IoT project.

According to the distribution companies (Discoms) estimated that the MSME sector had energy saving potential of around 400 MU per annum at the rate of at least 10 per cent per energy savings out of total consumption of 5,125 million kilo volt amperes an hour.