Jazz

Mobile enabled electricity theft prevention and system loss reduction solution development for mainstream grid distributor

Grantee Details

Name of project: Mobile enabled electricity theft prevention and system loss reduction solution development for mainstream grid distributor
Project location: Pakistan
Type of grant: Seed
Grant awarded: May 2017
Partners: CISNR and Karachi Electric

Jazz, along with it’s technology partner CISNR and grid distributor K-Electric, will design, develop and implement electricity theft prevention and line loss reduction solution. This initiative will address two of the most major issues prevalent in Pakistan: power theft and non-transparency of billing. Jazz and K-electric will target underserved neighbourhoods which suffer the most from theft and increased billing.

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Testimonial

“As one of Pakistan’s leading telecommunications providers, our ambition is to empower our customers digitally by introducing innovative solutions addressing the challenges faced by our customers. Keeping that objective in view, our grant with GSMA will tackle the challenges faced by our local power distribution sector – such as line losses, inefficient power load distribution at transformer level, and electricity theft. This demonstrates our pledge to make Pakistan digital and ensure that mobile technology growth has a profound effect upon changing the lives of people in Pakistan.” – Aamir Ibrahim, CEO