Prasanna Technologies - Accomplishing Software Systems to Drive Growth of Utilities

CIO Vendor With the ever escalating demand of power, Utility companies are looking for solutions to meet their requirements in order to accelerate growth. Although IT has aided the Utility companies by automating the process and reducing the response time for decision making, resulting in tremendous improvement in quality, but for companies to concentrate on their tasks, the burden of maintaining and administering the system needs to be taken care of. Satisfying the quest of Utilities is Mangalore based Prasanna Technologies that accomplishes a diversified portfolio consisting of products like 'Energysync' and 'AquaSys', to address requirements of Electrical utilities, water utilities and urban local bodies.


AquaSys, the Water Billing System by Prasanna takes care of various stages that form part of the life cycle of a consumer's relationship with the utility



EnergySync suite, the complete office automation for power utilities facilitates the maintenance of customer accounts, effective material management and inventory, optimized maintenance of inventory versus works, human resource management, and provides effective guidelines on managing revenue versus expenses of the utility. Sharing the successful implementation of ES, Subodh Shetty, Managing Director of Prasanna Technologies says “By implementing EnergySync, Mangalore Electricity Supply Company (MESCOM) is capable of doing estimation of works in few minutes, is enabled with an on-line budgeting system, capable of creating
Annual Expenditure Reporting within seconds, timely Procurement and Inventory management and simplified Salary Generation to name a few.”

AquaSys, the Water Billing System by Prasanna takes care of various stages that form part of the life cycle of a consumer's relationship with the utility. Eliminating the manual billing systems, AquaSys uses a RF based smart card technology to maintain all the data related to consumer connections, disconnections and reconnections, modification of consumer related information, ensuring accurate billing and billing related information, error corrections in the consumer bills, management of consumer complaints and generation of MIS and other related reports.

Developed with the mission to minimize the green house effect and provide uninterrupted power supply by increasing the life of Transmission & Distribution equipments, Enterprise Maintenance Suite of Prasanna minimizes breakdowns of critical equipments thus increasing their life, ensures periodic maintenance, increases revenue by minimizing the power losses and centralizes governance & monitoring for the key stakeholders through MIS reports. The chief solutions of EMS include Predictive Maintenance and Tower Maintenance for monitoring the health of the key parts of a Distribution Transformer and Transmission Tower respectively; and Meter Data Acquisition System (MDAS) for monitoring solution for critical equipments by remotely acquiring vital data from the meters in real time and thus enabling quick decisions. Besides integrated with SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), the Substation Maintenance solution of EMS automates the entire substation’s planning and maintenance schedules enabling the Station in-charge to drill down to the equipments from a Single Line Diagram (SLD). Higher officers drill down to Substation from the Transmission hierarchy view, thus forming a strong Decision Support System (DSS) with thought provoking Analytics.

Adding to the list, Survey Management System (SMS) of Prasanna, an android based survey management application is capable of capturing GIS coordinates that helps the utility companies to centrally monitor/view the details of assets present in their territory.

Subodh envisions Prasanna to have a major share in the global market, thus becoming the leading consultant in utility segment in the near future.