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Mobile4Energy to provide 1,000 Kiangurwe residents with electricity
Mobile4Energy is set to receive funding from the GSMA Foundation that will support deployment of a new Meter-to-Cash solution for…
Mobile4Energy is set to receive funding from the GSMA Foundation that will support deployment of a new Meter-to-Cash solution for a rural electricity provider in Kenya. The project will result in electricity being supplied for the first time to 1000 residents of the Kiangurwe community on the outskirts of the Mount Kenya National Park.
Through use of the Mobile4Energy solution customers will be able to manage their consumption via their mobile phones and top-up their accounts via mobile operator Pay As You Go networks.
Mobile4Energy has developed an innovative Meter to Cash solution for Utilities allowing consumers to pay through existing mobile telecoms Pay As You Go networks that already serve 2.8bn customers globally.
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The Mobile4Energy solution provides real-time metering, billing and cash collections in a highly scalable and customer friendly manner reducing cost to serve and revenue leakage for utilities.
This project will be undertaken by a consortium of technology companies led by the utility Prepaid specialist Mobile4Energy
The Mobile4Energy-led consortium includes Smart Metering Systems plc, Airtel Kenya, DigitalRoute and Computaris. They will deploy its proprietary mobile-enabled metering, billing and collections solution that brings the tried and tested advantages of telecoms’ realtime billing systems and cash collections networks to the utility sector.
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Mobile4Energy was also selected as a Leading Innovation Start up by European events organiser, European Utility Week. It showcased its solution in live demos to utilities during the annual event in Vienna in November.
“The Kenya project allows us to demonstrate our turnkey solution for utility Prepay under the same challenging conditions that many emerging market utilities face every day,” said Jason Simpson, Founder of Mobile4Energy.
Added Johan Bergh, CEO, DigitalRoute: “We are proud to participate in an innovative and important project that underlines the diversity of the challenges that our technology is able to meet.”