Welcome to the latest edition of Smart Living, a newsletter by SmartCommunity.in.
We now have a very ambitious program called Digital India. Digital India is expected to improve various citizen centric activities of the public institutions. We believe that our platform SmartCommunity.in embodies the spirit of Digital India. It allows urban societies to implement digital program to provide resident friendly services.
Please find here selected blogs for the last one month as published on our site
A large number of societies which carry out electricity billing are not very careful with respect to the maintaining correct meter number information. As the meters get replaced, the society does not track the correct details about the new meter numbers. More surprisingly, we find many societies which use automatic meter reading system also do not track correct meter numbers. This clearly points to faulty automatic meter reading process. Let us consider more details.
Quite a lot of societies use accounting software as billing software as well. It meets many of their requirements but falls much short of good billing software. The society management is generally not expected to be aware of the differences between the accounting and billing software. Even the accountants employed by the societies are not aware of the same. Allow us to present key points.
Communication to all the stakeholders including residents plays a very important role in society management. Also most of the communication happens by emails. Quite often, the RWA team and facility team use their personal email id to manage these communications.
The world has moved to information revolution. A web presence is one of the best ways to disseminate information to all the stakeholders. Most of the progressive housing co-operative societies do have a web presence. The Delhi Co-operative Tribunal and Office of Registrar Co-operative Societies have now mandated that each co-operative society should have its own website.
Solar Roof-top is a proven technology and has been adopted world-wide in a big way. There is big push to solar roof-top in India as well. There are now reliable suppliers in the market. It is now easy to install a solar roof-top. There are a few important considerations/ decision factors while installing a solar roof-top. These considerations are applicable whether you are an individual house owner, an apartment society or commercial/industrial entity. Please note that these considerations are applicable for the entities which have an existing source of power – state electricity grid or Diesel Generator. Let us look t them:
The societies and apartment complexes which are responsible for supplying the power to the residents can bill the residents either on single source meter or dual source meter. These societies bill the resident for both grid power as well as back-up/Diesel Generated power. The societies can always put separate meter for DG supply and separate meter for grid supply or bill using one meter only or can also use a dual source metering technology. The dual source metering technology has meters which have two registers – one for Grid and the other for DG; it receives an external single for switching the registers.
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