Smart Card Prepayment Metering System is a new billing methodology that combining a superior electronic customer account management system, state-of-the-art metering equipment and smart card technology, that provide a Power Utility a substantial saving both in manpower and money while providing new payment option for the customers. It reduces operational cost with paperless revenue collection system and can even replace any electromechanical meter in the market. In this system, the meter used Smart Card as the medium of communication with the customer, the utility and authorised Charging Station.


The Smart Card Prepayment Metering system not only replaces the conventional meters and their associated billing system, but also the meter readers and revolutionalised the administration of the revenue collection system. For the conventional system, the bill is produced with the help of a meter reader. The customer pays the utility based on the value stated on the bill.  In Smart Card Prepayment Metering System, the customer has to buy the “credit” which is loaded onto a Smart Card, and use it to charge the prepayment meter. The credit that has been loaded onto the meter will be deducted according to tariff rate and electricity energy consumed. Basically, the philosophy behind this system is “pay as you use”

The system eliminates the need of sending a meter reader to collect data at the customer premises. Instead as a customer inserts his charged Smart Card into the meter and the information such as total kWh consumption, previous 12-months kWh consumption, available credit and etc. is then transferred by the meter to the card. The downloaded data will then be transferred to the utility database once the customer recharges their card.


The various available software that can be embedded into the meter, the Smart Card and the backend system together make the system very flexible and can cater to any utility requirement. An electronic prepaid kWh meter will act as a “bank”, as long as some credit is available inside the meter, electricity will be made available to the customer.  The level of credit inside the meter will be deducted according to the tariff as programmed for the respective customer.


The Master Terminal together with the database at the Utility Office acts as the “brain” of the system where all “policy” data such as block tariff, time of use tariff and types of customer etc. are kept, updated and process.


MIM Smart Card Prepayment Metering System provides total revenue collection solution to utilities and helps them to collect their revenue with the utmost efficiency.