Based in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, the start-up Ndoto Sarl announces that it has just completed the development of smart electricity meters, after 5 years of research. According to the promoters of this start-up, this discovery is adapted "to the challenges of energy distribution management in Cameroon".

 "Our solution allows both to optimize the operating costs related to the management of energy distribution and to monitor its own electricity consumption, through our mobile application," says Wolf Njitia, co-founder of Ndoto Sarl. Concretely, the solution of this start-up allows to digitalize the billing, to geolocalize the electricity consumers and thus to reduce fraud.

Thanks to these smart meters, we learn, energy consumers will be able to access their consumption in real time, will be able to turn on and off their meters remotely, will be able to pay their bills via mobile payment platforms instantly, and will receive alerts on their mobiles before any service interruption.

The innovation of this start-up comes at a time when Eneo, Cameroon's electricity utility concessionaire, is experimenting with the first smart meters on its network. This is intended to limit the fraud responsible for 20% of the energy losses in distribution in the country in 2018, i.e. around 200 megawatts.    

Source : investiraucameroun