By using a remotely operated system, electricity firm employees in Ho Chi Minh City will be able to record household power consumption without having to come to each home by 2020, the local power supplier said.

Such convenient consumption recording will be made under a remote measurement program that the city’s power sector has applied to over 7,600 customers that are not households during the past few years, said Nguyen Phu Vinh, head of the business department of the Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation, which is under the state-owned Vietnam Electricity.

This program, part of the corporation’s smart power project, will be extended to those customers who are families from next year, Vinh said.

There are about two million electricity meters in the city, of which 1.8 million are being used by households, he added.

It is expected that the program will be implemented in the whole city by 2020, Nguyen Van Ly, deputy general director of the company, said.

Under the program, a small modem will be fixed to every electricity meter to transmit power consumption readings, among other necessary data, through 3G signals to servers placed at the power firms under the corporation, said Pham Duc Thanh, head of the business department of the Saigon Power Company.

Such transmission will be carried out once every 30 minutes, Thanh elaborated.

The remote measurement program will help the corporation enhance its capability to serve customers, Luan Quoc Hung, deputy head of its technical department, said.

Nguyen Phuoc Duc, deputy general director of the Southern Power Corporation, which manages 21 power firms in southern Vietnam, said it has also applied the same program to about one million out of seven million families and 40,000 out of more than 100,000 other customers.

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